Passports not in the drawer I always keep them in. Turning the place upside down.

Lovetopaint037
Oh , I feel your pain 😢 When you always put something in the same place & then find it is not there !
Recently, I have ‘misplaced ‘ important paperwork that I need to be able to apply for our doggy passports . I know not quite the same but as I have literally had kept this paperwork in the same place since we brought our pups home 🏠2& half years ago . It is now a mystery & becoming quite urgent A few months ago I had to take them to show to the dog boarders who watched them for the weekend. Fast forward I went to retrieve them for the passports & have mislaid one 1️⃣ how did that even happen ? I have torn the house upside down , rooted in cupboards, bags every which place to no avail .
Another time many years ago , I was about to go on a short break & could not find my passport anywhere , it was at a time when I would often go away at weekends to Europe . Off I went to begin the replacement process , had the interview at the passport office & was all ready to pay & found I needed new photos . So home I trotted . I thought the naively at the time they could use my previously submitted photos !
A few days later , without even looking there it was ‘tucked into the pocket of the bag I always used on flights ‘ !!!
I’m sure your husbands will will turn up in the last place you’d imagine 🙏

Jacket pockets?

Mouse
I renewed my passport recently, applied online on Wednesday, received the new one on Saturday, so impressed.

Daddima

My friend lost her purse and was convinced a fellow who had sat next to her ai the train station had stolen it, so she reported it to police with a full description of the fellow. Two days later, she found the purse in the freezer, beside the stuff she had bought that day.
So, don’t just look where it could be!
( Anyway, at least you now have a replacement.)

Oh dear.

I did once search high and low for my phone (I knew it was on silent, so there was no use ringing it). It was in the fridge. In the box where we put the cheese.

My son "mislaid" his passport last year, discovered 5 says before holiday date. House was turned inside out but no luck. Decided he'd chucked if out when cleaning out the desk in home office. Reported as lost, but couldn't get a replacement in time for his holiday.

I opened my 'safe' drawer in my desk to check my building society book..it was gone! I panicked, turned the house upside down, finally phoned the building society to report the loss. As I was speaking to them I suddenly knew where it was...I pulled the drawer right out and there it was in the space under the drawer! It had somehow migrated to the back of the drawer and flipped over the back. Try that?

Have you checked the cases you used for your last holiday? Hope you find them. They will turn up am sure and though it holy I do pray to St Anthony when I lose something and it usually turns up. Probably cos they weren’t lost anyway. Just “put in a safe place”. Good luck xx

Look underneath your microwave.

I keep checking this thread to see if they've turned up yet.

Aveline

I keep checking this thread to see if they've turned up yet.

Me as well... 😂.

Say a prayer to St. Anthony

Lovetopaint037. Any luck? 🤞

So frustrating to 'lose' your passport. I once did this and turned the house upside down - the drawers were never so tidy by the time I had finished, but still no passport. Like you say - I always put the passport in the same place after a holiday - but obviously not this time. In the end I did get a new passport. Then doing a spring clean, moved a heavy vase that sat on a side table and there underneath the vase was the passport! I had not moved it before as very big and heavy and a 'family heirloom'! Why and how it found it's way there I will never know!

I wouldn't cancel them yet. You have other means of identification. A birth certificate is surely a better means of identification and in some minor cases a bus pass.
I once ordered my holiday currency and couldn't find it anywhere when it was time to go so I had to buy some more.
I found it months later in the pages of a book which I had found boring and left on the shelf.
Something always turns up sooner or later in the most unlikely place.

A birth certificate does not have aphoto and many places as for photo ID.

I am involved in arranging Disclosure Scotland PVGs and they require three pieces of ID, one which must be photo ID. A birth certificate on its own is not sufficient.
A passport or driving licence is ideal.

Hello folks. I cancelled the passports as the frustration and stress was really getting to me. So that was easy. Then I set about the replacement progress. Got to the payment and it took the submit remained pale so thought it hadn’t gone through. Then up popped up the expected acknowledgement and a request to give them the person who could confirm that I was who I said I was. This was done and my friend told me she had filled it all in but had received two different emails with different references on them.The second one worked. However, looking at my credit card statement there are two pending payments 😏Now to confuse us all the more I had after doing mine set about doing dh’s but after paying had no acknowledgement. I thought the second payment must have been for his but the Passport office checked (chat line) and couldn’t find his application. Told me would have to do it again. I haven't as I still don’t know if I have been charged twice. Have to wait to see if they take two amounts and as I don’t know which one is the correct the saga continues. If anyone is still reading this I will be surprised and grateful!!!

I am reading still... and have my fingers crossed for you.

🙄 what a saga!

I’m still following, had also seen your other thread about the replacement issues!

Oh dear, it’s all such a hassle you can well do without.

Sending

(No help, I know, the passports would be more welcome!).

Lovetopaint037

Hello folks. I cancelled the passports as the frustration and stress was really getting to me. So that was easy. Then I set about the replacement progress. Got to the payment and it took the submit remained pale so thought it hadn’t gone through. Then up popped up the expected acknowledgement and a request to give them the person who could confirm that I was who I said I was. This was done and my friend told me she had filled it all in but had received two different emails with different references on them.The second one worked. However, looking at my credit card statement there are two pending payments 😏Now to confuse us all the more I had after doing mine set about doing dh’s but after paying had no acknowledgement. I thought the second payment must have been for his but the Passport office checked (chat line) and couldn’t find his application. Told me would have to do it again. I haven't as I still don’t know if I have been charged twice. Have to wait to see if they take two amounts and as I don’t know which one is the correct the saga continues. If anyone is still reading this I will be surprised and grateful!!!

Oh no. I had a nightmare of a time when I renewed my passport; it seems to be a bit of a lottery. It either goes smoothly or badly. I just found my Boots Advantage card after tearing the house apart for several days ( it drives me nuts when I lose something). It was under an envelope on a cupboard in the kitchen where I recharge my iPad. I’ve resolved to always put things back in their proper places in future, which, of course, I won’t do. I had it in my head that, when I found my card you would find your passport but it wasn’t to be. All I can say is I feel your pain and I’m sending good passport finding/renewing karma across the internet x

Thank you so much Maybee. I can feel the karma surrounding me. Also Calendargirl and NotSpaghetti. You are so staunch to have kept up with it. Thank you.

MayBee. Sorry didn’t get it right. The least I can do is apologise.

Well now you’ve paid for new ones your old ones will appear…

Oh! Dear. Hope not. They have definitely nabbed two amounts of £88.50 for mine. There is no evidence of an application for dh. Filled in a complaints form online with evidence that two requests for confirmation of identity were made with different references. 72 hours for a reply!!!!!!

Am going to reapply for dh at probably around 2am next week. Hope the system will be better at that time.

Still following the saga 😂