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Old 15th-July-2007, 04:51 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Re: Passport renewal

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Originally Posted by JCB View Post
Check out the post office: certain branches do a "Check & Send" service: £66 (don't know if the strikes might affect that). Or you can make an appointment , to get it renewed at a passport office counter - guaranteed one-week Fast Track service (that last was quoted from the government site) £91.
Good luck -
The Fast Track service does work ok - I used the 1 week service and the passport was delivered by courier about 5 days after the appointment. The site I'd recommend is The Identity and Passport Service - Identity and Passport Service which contains all the information you could possibly need, without recourse to a premium rate telephone line.

You do have to phone for an appointment and visit a passport office if want your passport urgently on the one week/overnight service - but this phone line only costs 8p/minute. My sister did once use the 24 hour service I recall - with this service you have to go back to the passport office to pick your passport up.
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