hang fire if you're about to get a new passport

Just had to get a new passport and didn't give it a second thought. Was disappointed when I noticed it said 'her majesty'.....

By the way I used the post office service, a bit steep at £98 but it took less than ten minutes at a booked appointment. Take your old passport with you and they can pull all the relevant details up using the passport number. Its just a case of confirming details/changes and your photo gets taken there and then with the iPad. No need to get it contersigned.

I received a confirmation email and then updated emails about progress throughout the week. My new passport arrived 8 days after.

I did it this way because I needed the surety of my new passport arriving before a trip to Europe in September. I was reminded that my passport would need to be renewed by 10th August when I went to Dublin in May. I had calculated I still had six months left after my return date from Europe but had forgotten to factor in the new ruling of needing more than ten years from date of issue. Still can't work that out but thank goodness for the flight assistant at Ryanair........

Would use the PO service again though (if PO still in excistance in 10 years ) as the reassurance of getting everything correct and the progress emails really made a difference.

Hmmm 🤔, I really don't think passports will have either his or her majesity on them! 🤪🤭

And U.K. isn’t Freya 🤔?

Deedaa

I've still got a couple of years on my EU one. If I'm still around to renew it I won't care whose on the pathetic "British" one.

So you don't like a British passport, oh shame. EU is a conglomerate of increasingly at odds countries.

Farzanah

I’d love to have an Irish passport, but sadly no relatives. I don’t enjoy long queues in non EU channels when visiting Europe.

Never had a long queue when visiting either of my two families homes. In fact last time eu gate was empty and was waived through this one by lovely PO at Schipol.

I've still got a couple of years on my EU one. If I'm still around to renew it I won't care whose on the pathetic "British" one.

Blossoming

Don’t care. My passport is still dark red with EU stars on it. I will renew it when I need to.

Mine too, Blossoming, renewed just before they were changed to blue or black or whatever colour.

Well at least it doesn’t have a picture of his “so called queen”!

Just to add, the new passports look cheap and nasty.
Much prefer the other ones.

I’d love to have an Irish passport, but sadly no relatives. I don’t enjoy long queues in non EU channels when visiting Europe.

Fernhillnana

Still wondering whether to forget a British passport and get an Irish one when mine expires. I’m eligible but not sure of the implications. Has anyone done this?

It’s very easy and only about 90 euro.
Mine took about a month.
You need your and your Irish parent/parents birth and marriage certificates.
One parent must have been born on the island of Ireland.
If it’s a grandparent you need to register on the foreign births register first.

BlueBelle

Perhaps the king and queen aren’t too keen on you either icanhandthem

That doesn't bother me either. I neither want or need their approval any more than they need mine. The difference is that if there are enough people like me, we won't have them any more on the front's of our passports whereas my passport will still have my lovely picture in it. 🤣

I’ve just received my new passport and hadn’t even noticed whose head was on it.

Does it really matter.? No it doesn’t! As long as it’s valid.

I've just received mine yesterday.
The reason I never noticed was because I don't care. I've not looked, nor am I likely to.
Also, I applied online on the 10th/07 and it arrived on the 19th/07.
Replacements are not taking long at all at the moment.

Don’t care. My passport is still dark red with EU stars on it. I will renew it when I need to.

Perhaps the king and queen aren’t too keen on you either icanhandthem

Still wondering whether to forget a British passport and get an Irish one when mine expires. I’m eligible but not sure of the implications. Has anyone done this?

Your comment made me giggle😅

I don't even care what colour it is, OldEnough2noBetter, as long as it does what it says on the tin!

No interest in which monarch's name is on my passport. Just wish I could go back to having an EU passport again.

Freya5

Hardly news. He is the King, and if you want to cut your nose off to spite your faces that's your prerogative, let him without sin, cast the first stone, as the saying goes.
Personally I shall look forward to getting my new passport after my next visit to Europe. Queen or King on the front, as long as its valid, I don't care.

As long as MY NAME is on it, I'll be all right . I've still got a burgundy Euro passport anyway, haven't even had a chance to get a silly it's-black-not-blue Brexit one.

My passport expired years ago
It was last extended at a post office as the passport people were so inundated with applications.

Wong

Freya5 I sometimes think some Gransnetters have too much time on their hands!!! If the new passports had a picture of Hitler on them that would be different but King Charles!!!! Get a life.

You’re not wrong wong 😁

Wong

Freya5 I sometimes think some Gransnetters have too much time on their hands!!! If the new passports had a picture of Hitler on them that would be different but King Charles!!!! Get a life.

Godwin’s Law in action so readily.

If we didn’t have ‘time on our hands’
we would not be on here in the first
place, be that scanning, lurking, posting.

Freya5 I sometimes think some Gransnetters have too much time on their hands!!! If the new passports had a picture of Hitler on them that would be different but King Charles!!!! Get a life.