I know I posted last week about this (In another forum) - but to be honest I couldn't find a form for a NON USC passport renewal. Now, I went and checked on all the Uk web sites and they refered me to the consulate in PA. I STILL couldn't find a form to fill in for my passport renewal.

I am a permanent resident but still UK citizen. UK won't deal with my passport and I can't find the right form to renew my passport - PLease help!

I want to go on holiday in AUgust to the Carribean so want to get it done now. In case it takes longer thna anticipated.

If anyone can reply to my post and send me the right for I would be really happy!

Thanks again

www.britainusa.com

C-1 form

You need to fork out $173 ($185 incl. postage), money order or Plastic (no, you can't use personal cheque).


Send or bring completed C-1 app to:

Passport Office
British Embassy
19 Observatory Circle, NW
Washington, DC 20008

We have to do the same thing for Claudeth. All we have to do is go to her country's embassy and they will renew it. Hopefully it is the say for you. Good luck

Thanks alot! I can't believe it is that Much money. Even in UK it is cheaper to get a passport renweal

Thats useful to remember for the future. The britainusa.com site was new to me.

Now, I'm gonna add insult to injury through lack of sympathy.

To renew a Canuck passport, I have to fork out C$97 (including a C$25 fee for "consular services"--when I actually have to mail/courier the package to Ottawa or Gatineau as NO Canadian embassy/High-Commission/consulate processes passport apps!), currently about US$80, not including mail/courier fees. Even worse, a Canadian passport is valid for only 5 years--where you get 10 on your new Brit passport.

IMO, you're getting a bargain (with £-US$ exchange rates)!


(admittedly, I now have a way of avoidance of such renewal, being a dual Canuck-Yank--but on behalf of the non-dual Canucks on VJ)

Yeah, I just checked out the UKPA site and it is 51 pounds to renew in england. I wonder how they justify the rest!!!

I guess the same way Canada justifies the "Consular Services" fee, even if the applicant downloads the PPT-140 form from Passports Canada website (and never even went within 500 m of the consulate/embassy).

I recently got a new passport, I went to Washingto DC to do the name change, as I got married, what a pleasant experience it all was, I got to the british embassy, to be told by a helpful lady that it works out cheaper to have a new passport than to do the name change, so thats what I did.

It was also pleasant to hear all the british accents,,,,saying things like,,,,you alright mate? or Hiya!

Thanks for your help everyone! I will be getting thistupid passport sent off now. Do I *HAVE* to use an expediting service?

I don't think I do I just want the normal passport service.

thanks

If you walk into the embassy with the passport do you get a new one while you wait? If not how long does it take?

The total with postage goes up to $197 on March 12th

I sent my application in to Washington fedex on march 7th. They processed it on March 13th, charged my account $197 on March 14, delivered a brand new passport on the 15th.

Are they issuing biometric passports in DC now? All new UK passports are supposed to have a biometric chip in them; if you're not there how do they collect the data?

Are they issuing biometric passports in DC now? All new UK passports are supposed to have a biometric chip in them; if you're not there how do they collect the data?
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Yes, mine has a chip in the back. They have all my info from the application, just no fingerprints

Based on this post, the time remaining till expiry on Brit passports (unlike Canuck where the applicant gets shafted of it--and only gets the 5 years of the new one) is tacked on to the "regular" 10-year term

As of May 2007 the fee for making changes to a passport is $205!!!! $220 with postage. I've only just sent in my AOS but thought I'd look up what i'll need to do to get a new passport with my name change. It's 66 pounds back home to do the same thing. Oh well. Have to save up for when that time comes.

I have a couple of passport questions. I am a British citizen living in Indiana. I need to renew my passport - it expired on August 8th. Do I need to get the form and photo countersigned for a renewal? What kind of documentation do I need to produce for renewals? The only difference to my circumstances since my last passport is that I am now married.

Thank you,

Steve

If its just a basic renewal then no, you don't need the application countersigned. I think that's only really a problem if you've changed your name (i.e. through marriage) or lost your original passport. Then the challenge becomes finding someone, who isn't a member of your family who has known you for at least 2 years.

Passport arrived within 2 weeks of my sending in the application. Lot quicker than it would have been back in the UK - guess there's an upside to the exorbitant application fee.

When I renewed my UK Passport I called the embassy about getting the photo's countersigned as I had only been in the US for 5 months there was nobody that had known me for more than 2 years... I was told that I could get my lawyer or doctor to countersign.. I had my lawyer do it and had no problems getting my new passport in my married name...

Kez

Is it safe to assume that I don't need countersignatures then? And, if so, is it also safe to assume that I don't need to send in ID evidence such as birth certificates, etc.?

Another question springs to mind: Do I need to produce a marriage certificate - or copy - to prove that I am now of married status?

Thank you,

Steve

Hi

Just a quick question, my passport has 4 yrs left before it expires (in maiden name) now applying for new passport with married name, my question is, when I get the new one will it be for a full 10 yrs or for the 4 I have left??

Lyn

I went to washington to get my passport, they check everything right then and a couple of days later I got my passport delivered via fedex. Very painless procedure, I was the only one in the place!

By the way, look at the fees now! Yikes! They're up to $250 since 1st May 2007!

Just so you know, if you fly with American Airlines to/from London, you can use your old passport in your maiden name if you want. The key thing is to take your original marriage certificate (or an official copy) and hand it over along with your ticket and passport at every inspection point.

I had to buy a new passport a couple of months before I left for the States in 2005 so now I have one in my maiden name that is valid until 2015 ... I changed my name on my AA mileage account soon after getting married, but I'm a cheapskate so I decided to try to hang on to my new old passport for as long as possible.

I've booked and flown on American three times since marrying - each time using a ticket booked in my married name. At DFW, Gatwick and Heathrow airports, the initial pre-check-in security processing took a couple of minutes longer than normal while the security staff checked the green card, the ticket and the passport against the marriage certificate to confirm both my names were there and I was me ... and added a note into the computer system. (I've been a useful training exercise a couple of times while junior checkers were shown what to do with me and my paperwork!) After that, the actual check in itself has been totally normal because all the details were already in the system.

I flew to London and back with AA this January, again using my married name with no problems, even though the US has changed its passport/ID rules.

Obviously I can't comment on what all the other airlines do ... And your experience and mileage may of course vary ...

However, as long as the US or UK don't change the rules again, and while AA sticks with its common sense approach to this issue (and I stick with them for the airmiles) ... I've got no intention of forking out such a ludicrous amount of money for no good reason.

There endeth the essay!

Fees are up again... $265..... how long does it take to receive a new passport once the application has been mailed?

Jen

I got mine a month or so back. Fast turnaround. Got it about 10 days after I sent the application off. Horribly expensive but they have you over a barrel! US passports are much cheaper but they take forever. My wife got one and it took something like 3 months.

Hiya,
My British passport is up in March 2009, I'm a permenant resident of the US now just on my lil break from paperwork till I have to apply to lift conditions. This thread was very helpful but I just wondered how much in advance you'd recommend I apply to renew my passport before it expires? I apply to lift conditions around May 09.

Thanks,

Fiona