Delays in first passport for child born overseas
Jun 8th 2014, 10:34 pm
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Jun 8th 2014, 11:49 pm
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Re: Delays in first passport for child born overseas
Jun 9th 2014, 1:03 am
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Jun 9th 2014, 4:28 am
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Re: Delays in first passport for child born overseas
Ha ha! You know, you are totally right!! I won't stop worrying until I am totally settled over there and by that time worrying will be habit so I will then begin to find or create something else to worry about! 
Jun 9th 2014, 1:31 pm
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Jun 9th 2014, 1:44 pm
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Jun 9th 2014, 1:49 pm
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Re: Delays in first passport for child born overseas
If i haven't heard anything by 25th June.... my mother will taken legal action or whatever steps or plans she has. (shes good at these things) lol
Because i need to be in UK by the 25th of august... (it doesn't look like its going to happen....) but a family member of ours is very ill might not be here by XMAS.
Want them to meet my son... and my son needs his injections don't trust the ones here in china (costing me a god damn fortune)
they're soo lucky i am not in the UK because when i do return i am going to find this person who signed for my application and have a serious confrontation just to release that anger.... makes my blood boil it really does.
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Jun 9th 2014, 2:58 pm
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Re: Delays in first passport for child born overseas
I got an email confirming my passport has been sent and should be with me in 10 working days or less.
Sending complaints, speaking with the beijing embassy and my useless MP set off a chain reaction which culminated in them finding my passport application and processing it in a day.
What really helped was ringing the office
0845 601 5107
I found this number and contrary to the other number posted on here it got answered!
I called at 8:30 and waited for around 30 minutes.
You will be asked for a reference number but just say you have been given this number by the embassy and need to speak to a manager urgently.
All those complaints worked....
When I have my sons passport and my supporting documents returned I will finish complaining everywhere- hope heads roll
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Jun 9th 2014, 3:12 pm
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Re: Delays in first passport for child born overseas
[QUOTE=Vexcore;... and my son needs his injections don't trust the ones here in china (costing me a god damn fortune) [/QUOTE]
If you go to a government injection hospital (they give injections to babies as hospitals only give the first 2)
You can get the 5 in 1 injections as they are manufactured in Europe and are identical, to the ones in the Uk costs 700rmb
PCV is also the same as uk.860 rmb
Rota Virus is also manufactured in Europe. 200rmb
Private/western hospitals are stupidly expensive.
Hep b which isn't essential is free.
Meningitis C isn't a requirement in china at 3 months so that's best to leave for the UK.
General rule is you can delay injections for babies but you cannot have and injections early so as long as you have them at some point you should be ok.
My son has had all UK injections except Men C and he is a month behind his UK immunisation schedule
If you go to a government injection hospital (they give injections to babies as hospitals only give the first 2)
You can get the 5 in 1 injections as they are manufactured in Europe and are identical, to the ones in the Uk costs 700rmb
PCV is also the same as uk.860 rmb
Rota Virus is also manufactured in Europe. 200rmb
Private/western hospitals are stupidly expensive.
Hep b which isn't essential is free.
Meningitis C isn't a requirement in china at 3 months so that's best to leave for the UK.
General rule is you can delay injections for babies but you cannot have and injections early so as long as you have them at some point you should be ok.
My son has had all UK injections except Men C and he is a month behind his UK immunisation schedule
Jun 9th 2014, 3:20 pm
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Re: Delays in first passport for child born overseas
If you go to a government injection hospital (they give injections to babies as hospitals only give the first 2)
You can get the 5 in 1 injections as they are manufactured in Europe and are identical, to the ones in the Uk costs 700rmb
PCV is also the same as uk.860 rmb
Rota Virus is also manufactured in Europe. 200rmb
Private/western hospitals are stupidly expensive.
Hep b which isn't essential is free.
Meningitis C isn't a requirement in china at 3 months so that's best to leave for the UK.
General rule is you can delay injections for babies but you cannot have and injections early so as long as you have them at some point you should be ok.
My son has had all UK injections except Men C and he is a month behind his UK immunisation schedule
You can get the 5 in 1 injections as they are manufactured in Europe and are identical, to the ones in the Uk costs 700rmb
PCV is also the same as uk.860 rmb
Rota Virus is also manufactured in Europe. 200rmb
Private/western hospitals are stupidly expensive.
Hep b which isn't essential is free.
Meningitis C isn't a requirement in china at 3 months so that's best to leave for the UK.
General rule is you can delay injections for babies but you cannot have and injections early so as long as you have them at some point you should be ok.
My son has had all UK injections except Men C and he is a month behind his UK immunisation schedule
he's all sorted with those... but still expensive! but i need his injections for next year as he gets older the clock is ticking.
Jun 9th 2014, 3:20 pm
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Re: Delays in first passport for child born overseas
Hi there to all those suffering overseas passport delays. We are at 11 weeks tomorrow here in Jamaica waiting for a child's British passport renewal (child had a new style red book but this had recently expired). Application received in Durham and payment taken on 25 March, one call from Durham to say everything received - around 7 weeks ago now. - and 'we will be contacted if any further information is required'. Not a peep out of them since, despite many phone calls, 72 hr callback requests, emails and correspondence with local MP. When MP tried to track it down last week a supervisor said they had 'no record of the application'. Strange that when the finance department obviously had the file to take the payment!! Anyway, have been reading the newspaper pieces with a sinking feeling. Unlike some other posters, at least we have the option of the ETD as the child is British, born in UK to British parents and we have the birth certificate here, father's British passport etc. I really sympathise with some of the horrendous delays and circumstances written about here on the forum and elsewhere. And don't even talk to me about the 0300 helpline, who repeatedly ask for reference numbers when they know that overseas applications don't have a reference number/ barcode. I could go on but have spent enough time on 'the passport' problem already today! Good luck to everyone, especially the +10 weekers - it is a complete shambles. At this rate the child in question won't reach the UK in time for school in September, let alone the rest of this term.