Time to renew British Passport from Canada
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Time to renew British Passport from Canada
Hi
The UK.gov website says renewing a passport from Canada takes around 4 weeks. I am wondering if anyone has any experience of this yet and how long it is taking at the moment. Not being with a passport for any length of time is a bit concerning – they require the current passport to be sent to them.
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The UK.gov website says renewing a passport from Canada takes around 4 weeks. I am wondering if anyone has any experience of this yet and how long it is taking at the moment. Not being with a passport for any length of time is a bit concerning – they require the current passport to be sent to them.
Thanks
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Re: Time to renew British Passport from Canada
Thanks – I didn't see those. Seems surprisingly quick, which is great.
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Last year mine was back in a fortnight Four weeks seems like the worst case.
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Re: Time to renew British Passport from Canada
yep done mine 2 months ago back in 2 weeks and the day after my old passport arrived.
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+1 for a two-week turnaround. So long as you submit everything you can (including the photo) online and send in your current passport quickly, the 4-week quoted time seems to be more of a cover-their-ass worst case.
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+2. They were super quick! I renewed last year and it was barely 2 weeks.
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Mine took 10 days
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Re: Time to renew British Passport from Canada
Thanks for your replies – all sounds pretty quick then. :-)
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Does anywhere (like London Drugs/Cost Co etc.) do the digital photo that you can upload online? Or is it better just to get a printed photo and scan it in and upload it that way?
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admittedly from the US, but I was staggered, mine took, from docs received to passport shipped, from 6/18 to 6/21 ! Photo was done on iPhone against an 'off-white' wall and uploaded. fastest experience for any of our passports...
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Don't scan a print photo - there's no way of telling that the print isn't of an edited image, and it'll almost certainly be rejected. If you want to send a print (or if you need to, for example if it's your first passport application) then it needs to be the physical print with the photography studio's stamp on the back.
Last edited by Oakvillian; Jul 22nd 2019 at 2:11 pm.