Cost of UK passport set to increase
Jul 10th 2009, 6:21 am
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Re: Cost of UK passport set to increase
Where do you get such information? Look on the UK Border Agency website and you will find that you have to pay. If I was Canadian or from some other more desirable country, maybe not.
Jul 10th 2009, 6:50 am
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Re: Cost of UK passport set to increase
Actually, now I'm not sure if it is for a Schengen visa or European Union, let me check on that.
I do know for a fact that if you and your husband want to move to any country (Except for the home country of the EU Citizen) in the European Union they have to provide you with a 5 years residence permit free of charge.
I do know for a fact that if you and your husband want to move to any country (Except for the home country of the EU Citizen) in the European Union they have to provide you with a 5 years residence permit free of charge.
Jul 10th 2009, 7:00 am
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Re: Cost of UK passport set to increase
Actually, now I'm not sure if it is for a Schengen visa or European Union, let me check on that.
I do know for a fact that if you and your husband want to move to any country (Except for the home country of the EU Citizen) in the European Union they have to provide you with a 5 years residence permit free of charge.
I do know for a fact that if you and your husband want to move to any country (Except for the home country of the EU Citizen) in the European Union they have to provide you with a 5 years residence permit free of charge.
Jul 10th 2009, 8:35 am
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Re: Cost of UK passport set to increase
Actually, now I'm not sure if it is for a Schengen visa or European Union, let me check on that.
I do know for a fact that if you and your husband want to move to any country (Except for the home country of the EU Citizen) in the European Union they have to provide you with a 5 years residence permit free of charge.
I do know for a fact that if you and your husband want to move to any country (Except for the home country of the EU Citizen) in the European Union they have to provide you with a 5 years residence permit free of charge.
Jul 10th 2009, 9:09 am
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Re: Cost of UK passport set to increase
Cost of passport set to increase
Holidaymakers face inflation-busting increases in passport fees.
The cost of an adult passport will rise £5.50, or 7%, to £77.50, the Home Office said.
Fewer people are going abroad as families tighten their belts in the recession, meaning applications for passports were 400,000 below the expected level.
The rises, which will come in to force in September, will see the price of a child passport increase £3 to £49.
Fast-track adult applications, which take a week, will cost 15% more, up £15.50 to £112.50.
Prices have shot up in the last decade. In 1997 a passport cost £18. In 2007 it cost £51 and by last year it was £72.
The cost increases are in part due to the inclusion of biometric technology to improve security.
A Home Office spokesman denied the increase was related to ID cards.
But shadow home Secretary, Chris Grayling, said: "This looks like a blatant attempt to bury part of the cost of the ID scheme in the price of a passport. The Government admits that it has no idea how many people will have to volunteer for ID cards before they cover their costs, so it looks like the cost is being lumped on to our passports."
Immigration Minister Phil Woolas said British passports were a "gold standard" in identity documents. "Since the last fee increase in 2007 the Identity and Passport Service has issued almost eight million first generation ePassports, containing secure chips holding an individual's passport details and facial biometric
http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/article.as...ntid=148425215
Holidaymakers face inflation-busting increases in passport fees.
The cost of an adult passport will rise £5.50, or 7%, to £77.50, the Home Office said.
Fewer people are going abroad as families tighten their belts in the recession, meaning applications for passports were 400,000 below the expected level.
The rises, which will come in to force in September, will see the price of a child passport increase £3 to £49.
Fast-track adult applications, which take a week, will cost 15% more, up £15.50 to £112.50.
Prices have shot up in the last decade. In 1997 a passport cost £18. In 2007 it cost £51 and by last year it was £72.
The cost increases are in part due to the inclusion of biometric technology to improve security.
A Home Office spokesman denied the increase was related to ID cards.
But shadow home Secretary, Chris Grayling, said: "This looks like a blatant attempt to bury part of the cost of the ID scheme in the price of a passport. The Government admits that it has no idea how many people will have to volunteer for ID cards before they cover their costs, so it looks like the cost is being lumped on to our passports."
Immigration Minister Phil Woolas said British passports were a "gold standard" in identity documents. "Since the last fee increase in 2007 the Identity and Passport Service has issued almost eight million first generation ePassports, containing secure chips holding an individual's passport details and facial biometric
http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/article.as...ntid=148425215
a very valuable one but still "just" a passport, 77 in the uk, and twice as much aboard.
i reckon in 2010 they're gonna try to enforce the new id card by forcing us to apply for combine deal which includes a new passport (with finger prints sorted inside) and id card.
you can always choose not to, but those who are seeking to travel to the US then going to need to apply for a visa, since the US authorities would probably only accept passports with finger prints....
hopefully whatever i wrote wont happen.
Last edited by tevel3; Jul 10th 2009 at 9:13 am.
Jul 10th 2009, 9:15 am
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Jul 10th 2009, 12:28 pm
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Jul 10th 2009, 1:43 pm
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Re: Cost of UK passport set to increase
