Passport Prices

deuse said:
This is were you fail, if the price of a passport was not so high then they would have no problems.
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Right, ok... If a family can't afford passports then I think they should question their ability to be able to afford a holiday.
 
I just don't see why I need a whole new one. I'm still me. I still live at the same address - and i'll probably need to get another new one in a year or so anyway when I move. There's still space for putting stamps in (not that most places bother afaics) - all it needs is a more up-to-date photo with me looking less like Harry Potter on it.

Why does it have to have all this biometric rubbish in it? It's been fine for the past 10 years without it going all over the world.

So £6 of it goes to helping me get back into the UK if I'm arrested overseas? What about the rest?
 
The problem is the amount of "anti-fraud" and "security" they put into passports.. all of which can be cloned/copied/mocked in a matter of minutes anyway.

I got mine renewed last year for the princely sum of £164. I also notice it now says "Passport of the European Union" and not just "Passport of Great Britain" *bulldogs* :mad: :p
 
Dj_Jestar said:
The problem is the amount of "anti-fraud" and "security" they put into passports.. all of which can be cloned/copied/mocked in a matter of minutes anyway.

I got mine renewed last year for the princely sum of £164. I also notice it now says "Passport of the European Union" and not just "Passport of Great Britain" *bulldogs* :mad: :p
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As you say, it just doesn't work.
They're always finding hundreds of passports whenever they raid a terrorist or whatever house. Didn't that Abu Hamza have several billion of them in his tax-payer funded mansion?

I don't begrudge paying the money, well, I do. But for no other reason than I don't want to pay for it, as I have to pay for everything else. (As do millions of others, yes - I know :p).
 
i'm in belgium and a passport costs €100
but what's even better is you now have to go to the british embassy in paris to get it as the embassy in brussels has stopped issuing passports. cool huh?
 
I paid £120 couple years ago to get my passport renewed using the same-day service.

It was that or miss my holiday.
 
I have to renew my drivers licence and my passport next year. Plus when you read about immigrants and cimrinals just walking out of the country with a fake or borrowed passport makes you wonder why its so expensive.
 
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I don't know why people are saying it's only £7 a year. What relevance is that? It's not like they have to do anything each year. It's a 10 year passport but they only make it once.

Personally I think people should have to pay for it themselves but I do think it's overpriced and if it really is costing that much to make them then there is probably either too much of the usual government bureaucracy or the security and biometric rubbish is over the top. Or both.
 
monkeysmith said:
I don't see why it should be free because you pay tax. Or means tested, surely if you can afford to go abroad, you can afford a passport.
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Afford to go abroad? You do realise you need a passport to open a bank account, get a job or do a million other things that require official id. Driving licences prices are just as ridiculous too.
 
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Sash said:
Just decided to get my *** in gear and get myself my first passport.

£72 to begin with £3 to get the documents sent securely back to me should I wish this (I think I just ticked this box by mistake though, when I could have saved myself £3 buy going to the Post Office /facepalm)

Apparently if you were born before September 1929 or something you get it free! Great! You have to pay roughly 60 years of tax before you get a free passport, and by that time you will probably not be able to get on a plane for health reasons.

And on top of that I may have to attend an interview to verify I am who I say I am.

Anyone else going through the same process just now or want to comment on passport stuff?

My wallet feels very light now.
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Think yourself lucky I'm resident in Belgium and here are my prices.

http://ukinfrance.fco.gov.uk/en/passports/passport-fees1
 
mjt said:
i'm in belgium and a passport costs €100
but what's even better is you now have to go to the british embassy in paris to get it as the embassy in brussels has stopped issuing passports. cool huh?
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lol it costs significantly more unless you are under 17 of course :D

Don't the spanish only pay 7 quid or something like that?

Belgians get a free ID card which does them for all of Europe. Like the UK one will when it comes save having to spend 72 quid to go to ibiza
 
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jas72 said:
lol it costs significantly more unless you are under 17 of course :D

Don't the spanish only pay 7 quid or something like that?

Belgians get a free ID card which does them for all of Europe. Like the UK one will when it comes save having to spend 72 quid to go to ibiza
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i meant a british passport, no idea how much a belgian one costs as i have no desire to become a belgian citizen :p
 
Passport costs?

I learnt the other day that it costs £1500 to get a non citizen residency, (E.g if your spouse wants to live in britain)

What do they need £1500 for, it was not too long ago.
 
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