Passport renewal

Is the EU card posters are referring to the EHIC card?

EHIC card covers EU and EEA and as mentioned Switzerland. Hard to imagine though how Government is going to find time to negotiate that as well as everything else ?.

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(To *humpty)

My Passport ran out in August 2013, I have used it on several occassions without problem. There are other ways to prove ID but more & more a photo ID is required. I have no intention of renewing my Passport despite DVLA requiring me to renew my Licence every year (medical grounds)

Some people will accept an expired passport for up to 5 years from expiry date. Basically, the organisations call the shots ( but NOT the NHS) and these days you just have to check what they want and provide it ( sometimes through gritted teeth)

I live in Sweden, but have a British Passport which needs renewing in August 2018, I asked at the Post Office in the UK if I could renew it before it expires and yes up to six months before it expires I can do this, so next trip to the UK I will apply and hope it is ready before I come back here, I am hoping in March there will not be too many renewing then, or I will have a longer stay in the UK than planned, and have to buy a new airline ticket into the bargain!

Is it nice living in Sweden?

Blue bell, I think you will find that you have to have a passport on an internal flight in case the plane gets diverted. to another country

The up side of renewing your passport: I renewed mine and was very pleased with the photo ( first time ever) but I'm going to be even more pleased with it in 10 years !

You can always pay a bit more and have your passport renewed in four hours if you are near enough to one of the passport offices. DH and I both did that as our passports needed renewing last time - but we were staying not too far from Newport. You do need to make a morning appointment for the first part and then return for the new passport four hours later.
I think you can have up to 9 months added on to the length of time of the new passport if you renew early.

Renew your passport. It is useful for identity in may situations i.e. for your pension, if you visit someone in prison! hope that does not happen, if you are to collect something from a click and collect. After all the other document your driver's licence you are likely to find that you will not be renewing it something.

I got a new passport to use as ID. I don't have a driving licence and lots of places only accept these as ID. For instance, amending bank account details or anything Government relate such as claiming state pension is much easier with a passport.
I've had serious problems at work and elsewhere before I got this. Being married, my birth certificate is not id either as I have a different name and they usually want photo ID.

Mine's run out too. I'm waiting for 2 knee replacements so probably won't go anywhere next year anyway but, most importantly, I'm waiting for a blue one.

I usually visit my Spanish relations every year but haven't as yet this year since last January 2017, I hope I maybe going out again early 2018, but I haven't made any plans yet.. am not sure how Bexit will be working for me yet. I'm thinking I'll update my insurance again this year and see how things go... It's really very difficult having been born and lived in Scotland, so Scottish all my life but having most of my relations in Spain!

You will need a passport if you leave the UK, now and after we leave the EU. The EU health card is still valid until yours expires but no comment about the future for this has been made yet.

You must consider insurance as the costs could be prohibitive especially if you need to be airlifted back to the UK.

I got the forms to renew my expired passport and fell at the first hurdle, where the very first "tick the box" question was "Is this a renewal" or "a change of name"

Actually, it was both

I believe you can renew your passport up to 8 months before the expiry date. The extra months will be added to the new passport so the new one will still expire 10 years from your old expiry date.
If you live abroad you don't need to go back to the UK to renew your passport you can do it from your home address. Look online and you will see the details.

Re the NHS - last December, OH & I registered with a new GP practice after a house move. We filled in multiple forms but they wouldn't accept us as patients until we supplied either a photo driver's licence or a current passport. I was gob smacked, to put it mildly and asked what happens to those non-driving , non-travelling folk who have neither. The answer was a shrug and a mumbled reply that it doesn't often happen.

I let my passport lapse. Had problems with supplying sufficient proof if identity twice since as we do everything online and couldn’t produce a recent bank statement or utility bill!

Renew.

Re insurance, never travel without it. A friend did and it cost a fortune and many moths to repatriate his body. Not to be recommended.

Months not moths. Thought it did get flown home.

charleygirl I don't think there are that many 'ghastly' diseases to be picked up in Thailand (though it depends on where you go!) and they do have good hospitals there but it will cost!

On the subject of ID, my DS used to travel from the Republic of Ireland home to UK with just his photo driving licence but got ticked off once by immigration. It is a form of ID but many airlines won't accept it - even for internal flights these days.

Ryanair's own website gives the following info on photo ID needed on UK domestic flights
UK - Any photo ID which matches the passenger name on thr booking.

TellNo1OK you need to contact your bank and cancel the card you used. Until you do this anything the scammers buy with the card is your responsibility. You might get put through to the fraud department to collect more information about the scam itself. It might be an idea to contact the DWP and tell them what's happened because you gave out all your basic personal details and your NI number. The scammers have enough information about you to ring the DWP and impersonate you. In theory they could arrange to have your pension sent to a different bank. I doubt the scammers will go that far, but it would worry me. It could also depend on the vigilance of the person the scammers speak to if they did try. Sorry to worry you. Maybe after you contact your bank, you should ring Age UK or CAB for help?

My FiL fell for the same scam three times and lost £99 each time. He's quite with it and when he realised what he'd done, he felt like an idiot each time. It's just awful how old people are targeted.

I haven't renewed my passport which expired in 2013, partly because I am unlikely to travel abroad again for a number of reasons. My old passport has not been accepted as proof of identity when I tried to use it, but I did get a photo driving license after this happened. I've not heard of the Citizen Card, so I just Googled it and I think I might get one in case I want to fly inside the UK.