Identity and Passport Service Reviews

We put in a application for 1st british passports on 3rd of August for my partner, myself & my 2 kids. My partner had his interview at the end of August & got his passport delivered 2 days later! My interview was booked for 4th September so we booked our holiday for 6 in Ibiza flying out in the early hours of the 19th ...  Read the complete review

Hi, I went to the BELFAST Identity & Passport office to renew my passport which had still 4 months left on it. According to the booklet that you get with your application form this can be done with up to 9 months left on the passport. After 2 weeks I received my original passport back with the 2 corners cut ...  Read the complete review

I had to apply for a new passport....not because my other passport is able to expire, but instead because I've run out of pages and so there is no where left to stamp. It kind of bugs me that the Passport Service requires me to purchase a whole new 10 year passport and that, unlike USA passports, it is unable to simply add new pages to ...  Read the complete review

***This is my review on renewing a child's passport.*** On being over obsessive about where my passports are in the lead up to our holiday next month, I thought I had better check they were where I thought they were. Of course they were and on looking at my children's sweet little faces I realised that they did look ...  Read the complete review

We are off to Menorca on holiday in July and our newest addition baby Autumn needed her first passport. Autumn is only 8 months old so I obviously had to apply on her behalf! When I have applied for passports in the past I have always done it by getting the forms from the Post Office and then using the check and send service ...  Read the complete review

I recently had the joy of applying for a child's first passport (who is under 16), therefore this will be the focus of my review. A passport application form is easy to pick up and can be found at most post offices - you might want to pick up a couple in case something goes wrong the first time (you know it will!). You also ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review