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I know!!!! bloody hell… don't want to run the risk of not having a GB passport tho, for the technicality (if we get the wrong person on the desk on the day) that they won't let us fly cos there won't be a return ticket for the little Kiwi travelling with us!! The hassle we had getting the photos done too!! Actually, even worse would be if they let us leave Akl, then wouldn't let us enter at Manchester!!!
Also, it took the clerk at the post-office nearly an hour to check it - we were enormously popular with the lunchtime queue behind, as you can imagine!
Also, it took the clerk at the post-office nearly an hour to check it - we were enormously popular with the lunchtime queue behind, as you can imagine!
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from what she said the postshop raised a number of queries with the high commission or wherever, about the process before they took it on, but these still haven't been answered…
oh, and they were in no way clear about whether they had to send originals of supporting docs, or just copies certified by them… so somewhere in wellington (hopefully!!) are all our original certs (birth, marriage etc) we get it all back soon!
i was back in the postshop yesterday for something else, and queued for 20 minutes whilst someone else was getting theirs done (it looked like they'd already been there for a while too!)
am starting to get twitchy now about it not getting processed in time, though we left 9 weeks and they say on the website it'll be done in 4….
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Now. You see. That is exactly how I thought it would be.
I'm wanting to renew my UK passport but am balking at the idea of holding up the postshop queue for an hour or more whilst the staff bumble through my application.
I'm wanting to renew my UK passport but am balking at the idea of holding up the postshop queue for an hour or more whilst the staff bumble through my application.
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It'll be 4 weeks on weds that we applied… hope it arrives before then and I can stop worrying!!
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ooo… getting proper 'cited now… this time next week, we should be 7 hours into our 40 hour (door to door) journey…..
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Good luck Stoof,hope all goes well. Let us know when you arrive safe and sound,won't you.
Phyl x
Phyl x