Originally Posted by BritInParis

The passport office in Washington closes in a few months so by the time you need to renew, you'll be applying directly to a passport office in the UK. The idea by that point is that you'll only pay the UK fee plus the courier charge to get it back to you.

Originally Posted by adele

Note that the new process of applying to theDurham passport office in the UK starts now:

Originally Posted by alman

It will work. I'll be getting an email soon saying congrats it went through.