Pollyana

canadaeh

I never understand why they say the photos for Aussie passports are different, I just got the one photo and put it on my 3 passports, Aussie, Irish and UK, all of them accepted it without problem and they are the exact same picture.

Pollyana

Same here - even though my arch-enemy at Aus Post tried to tell me it was illegal to have the same photo on both UK and Aus passports

Swerv-o

Only you could have developed a Nemesis that works at the post office!


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Pollyana

She's a nightmare, I tell you

roaringmouse

Yeah, the general guidelines about size differ (certainly between Aus & UK - don't know about Ireland). However within those guidelines it is definitely possible to have the same size photo - when my wife went to Teds to get passport photos for our kids, they checked and said the size was the same. Same photos were accepted by both UK & Aus passport people.

lenehan101

Hi,
Im travelling home to Uk in May and need to renew my passport before I go as Its about to run out. I also need to change it to my married name. Not sure how this affects my PR visa stamp which was issued in my maiden name, does anyone know?
Cheers,
Lesley

roaringmouse

Someone will no doubt tell you that you don't have to change your name when getting married. But anyway, for the sake of a UK passport your marriage certificate is normally enough to show change of name after marriage. For the visa, you'll probably need to complete a change of details form (Form 929) with new name and new passport details.

You should probably also request a new visa label fixed to the new passport - not sure if they've started charging for that yet, but it was in the works.

Australia_bound?

Anyone actually got someone in the UK to submit their passport application and post it out to Aus once it's all done? Seems expensive to have it done in Australia...
Bit of a mega thread to read all the way through it.

paddyo

It may be a bit pricey, but, having just gone through my son's UK Passport renewal through Australia Post, it is very swift!! New passport arrived before the end of the following week!

lenehan101

Mine also took under 2 weeks to be returned to me via aus post

Swerv-o

I almost did - I believe it can become complex if they decide that they require you to attend an interview. I think that in theory it is perfectly possible to ask somebody else to lodge your application for you, providing that you have supplied all of the relevant paperwork etc.

In the end I lodged my application at the Post Office on the last day of my UK visit, and then my folks posted the new one out to me when it arrived at their place.


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Lois1

Just wondered if anyone could help me with the following:-

we are moving to perth in august, my daughters passport expires the following september (2013).

I have looked at the websites for renewing which seems straightforward, the issue/problem that i forsee is that, as we would not have been there 2 years who/how can her identity be vouched, as we know no-one there?

Do i have to send the form back to someone we know in the UK first??!

Pollyana

A JP or similar can verify her identity

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showp...&postcount=167

http://ukinnewzealand.fco.gov.uk/res...newingPassport

roaringmouse

An alternative is to renew it in the UK now, you would get an additional 9 months on them on top of the normal passport validity period. The existing passport does not need to be within 9 months of expiring to renew it.

Presuming it's a childs passport (i.e. 5 year validity) then the expiry of the new passport would be approx late March 2018 if applied in the next week or so, so you would only "lose" 6 months compared to if you waited to be in Australia to renew close to the expiry.