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Feb 11th 2010 | 11:35 am

markan

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From: Whitby

passport renewel

Hi, I need to renew my UK passport from TO but the links I find keep sending me in circles, Ottawa, washington, Ottawa. Would anyone have a link before I crack up. cheers

Feb 11th 2010 | 12:02 pm

bear-diesel

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Re: passport renewel

If you are British they have to go to Washington DC. But good luck with that as ours have been there nearly 2 weeks with no movement due to the weather down there. Not too bad you might think but we have to send them off to LA for PR by mid March

Feb 11th 2010 | 2:09 pm

Alanandson

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Re: passport renewel

hey,

you need to go here: http://ukinusa.fco.gov.uk/en/passports

It took around 8 weeks for us, we sent ours off end of Sept and got them back start of November '09.

cheers,
Alan

Feb 11th 2010 | 3:13 pm

johnh009

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Re: passport renewel

Quote:

Originally Posted by markan

Hi, I need to renew my UK passport from TO but the links I find keep sending me in circles, Ottawa, washington, Ottawa. Would anyone have a link before I crack up. cheers

As Alanandson says, they no longer issue/renew UK passports in Canada, you have to send them to Washington as of mid to late 2009. Mine took 5 weeks. If you have any issues, the call/help centre is in Scotland and you have to give them your credit card details before they will speak to you. It costs almost C$3 a minute. Beaurocracy at it's best.

Last edited by johnh009; Feb 11th 2010 at 3:22 pm.