nametski

Please can anyone help. We need to renew our British passports, does anyone know where we can get British Passport Photos taken? Everywhere we have tried say they can't do it. Desperately need help, we are due to travel beginning of August (this year!) Thanks Nametski

jericho

Can you not just use a photo booth?

Elaine B.

Have you tried Blacks?

http://www.blackphoto.com/blacks/storeDirectory.jsp

bewillow

We did our own photos. Did them at home with a digital camera and cropped using http://www.epassportphoto.com/ We then printed them (on decent paper) at a local photo processing shope for 35p and sent them off. It was very easy to do!

Brownstar

Got mine done at AMA today, need to renew my passport as well

nametski

Thanks everyone. Don't mean to worry you but the ones we had done at the AMA were too big. They would just get rejected. The paper has to be plain white with no watermarks. We shall try doing our own. Thanks guys!! Have a great summer!

ann m

Go to a Blacks. They have a little list hidden away with all the various measurements and requirements (for numerous countries!) and will know what you need - and will offer a refund if the photos get rejected.

Edit - Googles shows at least three stores in Edmonton

1 - 11830 111 Ave NW
2 - 304 Southgate Shopping Centre NW
3 - Phase 3 1522 West Edmonton Mall

nametski

Thanks Ann, I have rung Blacks but the paper they use has printed watermark name on the back. So no use for UK passports. I shall keep trying.

bewillow

You should really just do it your self. It is really easy!

I have done two passports this way and will soon do another.

C$1 per passport (or realistically even less!)

nametski

Thanks, yes I want to do it ourselves but, my other half seems to think they won't accept it. We don't really have time to have them rejected, but anything is better than nothing eh! Thanks

Brownstar

Mine seem fine, they just need a little trim but the photo its self is correct

Alan2005

I did my own - and they accepted it ok. It's just a photo after all - if it's to spec it'll be ok.

ann m

I used Blacks and the photos were not rejected ....

Cassie 10000

I'm a little confused by this thread

I have always used a photo booth for any passport photo.

The ones at West Ed Mall are $4 for four photos.

I looked at the British Passport website and it states

be 45 millimetres high x 35 millimetres wide - this is the standard size when you have a passport photo taken in a photo booth or studio (you should not trim a larger photograph to meet this condition)


here's the link http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAn...tion/DG_174152

bewillow

I should add that the British passport people are not nearly so picky about photos as the Canadian passport folks.