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31/1/2018 at 2:41pm
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Passport costs are to rise from 27th March 2018. For anyone whose passport expires this year, it may be of benefit to apply before 27th March, that way you'll save the hike in prices and your passport will have the extra validity 'tacked on' to the ten years from when it was due to be renewed.
See here for details: (Martin Lewis website)
How are passport costs changing?
Here's what's happening to the cost of a standard three-week passport application:
How standard passport costs are changing
APPLICATION TYPE CURRENT COST COST FROM 27 MARCH COST INCREASE
Adult online application £72.50 £75.50 4%
Adult postal application £72.50 £85 17%
Child online application £46 £49 7%
Child postal application £46 £58.50 27%
Adult online bumper passport (16 extra pages) £85.50 £85.50 0%
Adult postal bumper passport (16 extra pages) £85.50 £95 11%
The cost of other forms of application are also going up, including:
Premium service (one day) – this is rising from £128 to £177 for standard adult passports.
Fast track service (one week) – this is rising from £103 to £142 for standard adult passports.
There's no user-friendly version of the full list of price changes, but they can be found buried in this official document.
The Post Office's Check & Send service, which ensures you've included the correct documents, that your photos don't breach any of the restrictions and that you've filled in the forms correctly, will remain the same price at £9.75 (on top of the application fee).
Renew EARLY to beat the increase
Crucially you can renew early even if your passport doesn't expire until 26 December 2018, without losing out. That's because when you renew, the time left on your existing passport is added to your new one, up to a maximum of nine months.
So let's say your passport's due to run out on 26 December 2018. You can renew on 26 March and pay the current cheaper prices - but you won't lose any time on your passport and your new one will be valid until 26 December 2028.
Even if your passport expires just after 26 December 2018, it may still be worth renewing early and losing a few days from your expiry date. For example, if your passport is due to expire on 31 December this year, and you renew on 26 March, your new passport will be valid until 26 December 2028 but it may still be worth it overall.
If you need a new passport, for example if you've changed your name, make sure you apply before 27 March to beat the increase (though if you've changed your name and already have travel booked, be careful, as the name on your passport will likely need to match the name on your booking).
Always get your passport, or complete your renewal, by using the government website, and avoid shyster sites. Find more of the best money saving tips in our Passport Renewal Tips guide.
Sorry about the prices layout - it looks fine in the box when typing it in but loses formatting.
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31/1/2018 at 4:00pm
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Just renewed both of ours. Applied online on Sunday got new passports 8am Friday morning. Very easy to do, it tells you straight away if the photo is wrong and what is wrong with photo our first one was too dark, so we turned on the light. Only need a phone to take picture then upload to site.
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02/2/2018 at 10:30am
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Same here. The only hiccup was that the photo was rejected by the "system". This happened several times and we could only assume that it was because I have light coloured hair and the background was also light. In the end we sent it anyway and the passport arrived about a week later.
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My wife just did hers,ittook a week and she got 6 months credited from old one,which was what was left.
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Quote: Originally posted by JoannaLesley on 02/2/2018
Same here. The only hiccup was that the photo was rejected by the "system". This happened several times and we could only assume that it was because I have light coloured hair and the background was also light. In the end we sent it anyway and the passport arrived about a week later.
The system rejected our first one because we did head and shoulders you need the top half of your body they then crop the photo.
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"The system rejected our first one because we did head and shoulders you need the top half of your body they then crop the photo."
Your photos must:
be a close-up of your full head and upper shoulders
contain no other objects or people
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11/10/2018 at 8:07pm
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Just an update on this thread.
I've just renewed our Passports using the online service.
Every thing is okay and easy except for taking a digital photo and using it on your application – it's a pain in the *rse.
You have to take an upper body photo, waist upwards, with a plain background (no shadows) in day light conditions.
We took pictures with a solid white background – stood outside on a sunlit day – to give the required 'upper body' photo.
When the picture appears on the application it crops off your body and leaves just a head and shoulder picture – talk about bring f*cked about !
I tried to use these photos but, despite a few more pictures being taken to get as good a picture as possible, it kept telling me they weren't acceptable because the light wasn't sufficiently good and the colours weren't good enough.
The light couldn't have been any better, remember it was sunlit, and unfortunately the colour of me was defined by who I am and was a reasonably accurate facsimile.
And, despite us both standing in the same position, and camera length, it kept cutting off the top of my wife's head.
In despair, after spending well over an hour trying to get it right, I sent the pictures as they were and expected further communication from the Passport Office having a moan about the photos.
But, no.
I received text messages from them telling that they'd had our applications, would I send our 'old' Passports and then they could issue 'new' Passports.
Nothing about the photos.
I posted the 'old' Passports last Friday afternoon.
We received our new Passports at 12.30 Wednesday.
We both look like criminals in a Police line-up, unsmiling and serious, on our Passports but at least we've got them.
Unfortunately the new Passport has a Red cover – I wanted a Blue one …......
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11/10/2018 at 10:13pm
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Should have waited, Keith.........! I'm glad I renewed mine a couple of years ago, without any 'upper body' photo malarkey. Mind you, both our photos make us look like someone from a police line up too! Pale, insipid, expressionless....... and the galling thing is that the automatic recognition line/passport check at an airport rejected me as 'not looking like the photograph'! Too animate, perhaps, smiling (I mostly am) and not pale enough?????
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Need to renew mine, but I am absolutely non techy and am bothered about uploading a photo, I am sure I won't be able to do it.
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Quote: Originally posted by Val A on 11/10/2018
Should have waited, Keith.........! I'm glad I renewed mine a couple of years ago, without any 'upper body' photo malarkey. Mind you, both our photos make us look like someone from a police line up too! Pale, insipid, expressionless....... and the galling thing is that the automatic recognition line/passport check at an airport rejected me as 'not looking like the photograph'! Too animate, perhaps, smiling (I mostly am) and not pale enough?????
I think you should be offended if you did look like your passport photo
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Val - couldn't really wait - only a few months left on the Passport and going over to France in a couple of months - didn't want to risk them rejecting the Passport because it had too little time left (under 6 months)
To get my wife's photo anything like I cropped off her hair on the photo (using Photofiltre) so the photo is not an actual replica of her - but don't tell the Passport Office, will you ?
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I renewed mine in July and it couldnt have been easier - the best service imaginable.
I did the entire thing online. I took a photo using my dSLR and sized it according to the instructions - it was accepted first time.
A few minutes after sending my application I got a text and e-mail reminding me to send my old passport back, which I did immediately.
The following morning I received the same text/e-mail again.
The next day (Day 2) I received a text + e-mail in the morning telling me they had received my old passport. 55 minutes later I received another text + e-mail telling me my application was approved and my new passport was being printed. 4 hours later I received another e-mail and text saying my new passport had been sent out, along with a tracking number.
First thing the next day (Day 3) it was hand delivered.
That was the standard service and took just 3 days from start to finish. Had I paid extra for the emergency service it could have taken longer than that just to get the appointment lol!
Well impressed!
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Renewing from abroad is rather expensive..over €150 Euros and a courier to send it to England. When it came back it turned out to have been processed in Belfast. I could have driven up and handed it in cheaper.
The photo was no problem but I did have to have a full birth cert this time. Abbreviated birth certs are no longer allowed. My previous passport was done in the embassy and cost the same as if I lived in the UK.
Compared to other countries, the UK is more expensive all round and you don't get the choice of an id card.
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