Identity and Passport Service

This review is for Overall service provided by Passport and Identity Service. I happen to use it twice. First time for my baby's passport and next time my first passport. For my babies passport, I did not use check and send service. I directly went to the passport centre in Victoria. The staff was very professional and all the instructional were very clear. Also, filling out the form was not to complicated. As a result of this, getting new passport was a breeze. I got my babies passport in less than a week !! In my case, I decided to go for check & send service in local post office. I think £7 is bit more, but worth considering the peace of ...  Read the complete review

This review relates to the passport 'Check and Send' service which is available at 2,500 Post Office branches. As i'm going on an trip around Europe in April, I thought it was best to renew my passport (which ran out last year) as soon as possible - as there can often be complications when dealing with such an important document. You can fill out the relevant forms and simply pop them in the post - but I decided that I wanted peace of mind, and therefore chose to use the Post Office's 'Check and Send' service which costs £6.85. I didn't want a situation where I sent off the documents, only to have them sent back to me because of an error on my ...  Read the complete review

Last month I did something that was a long time coming - I booked a week's holiday, something that I have not been able to do in far too many years now. If that wasn't cause enough for celebration, this particular jaunt happens to be a dream trip to the USA for my honeymoon. Amid all the excitement, however, it dawned on me that we would both need a new passport for this trip, as not only would Other Half not have the requisite six months left on his current passport at the time of travel, but there was also the small issue of me needing my passport to show my new married name (yes, it turns out that I am something of an old-fashioned girl after all). The passport is, I ...  Read the complete review

Note this advice applies only to priority passport renewals by UK citizens - it doesn't cover first passports or anyone whose nationality is more 'complicated'. Other procedures apply in those instances. ===Do you know where your passport is? Do you know when it's due to expire?=== Organised readers will smugly be thinking "Yep, it's in the top drawer, under the insurance paperwork with another 5 years to run". Some readers may be wriggling in their seats slightly uncomfortably thinking "Well I know where it should be but I'm not completely sure and it must be due to run out soon because I still had hair/didn't have wrinkles/had that ...  Read the complete review