Canberra UK passport office relocating to NZ
Mar 18th 2009, 10:14 am
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Canberra UK passport office relocating to NZ
My father's just read his Royal Navy Association newsletter. Someone has written that in June 2009 the Canberra UK passport office will be relocating from a building near Canberra airport to somewhere in New Zealand.
My father rang the person who put it in the newsletter and they said they'd got the information from someone at the Canberra UK passport office. I checked that and couldn't find anything at all about it. There is nothing about relocation.
Have any of you read or heard about this???
My father rang the person who put it in the newsletter and they said they'd got the information from someone at the Canberra UK passport office. I checked that and couldn't find anything at all about it. There is nothing about relocation.
Have any of you read or heard about this???
Mar 18th 2009, 10:18 am
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Re: Canberra UK passport office relocating to NZ
Yes the security guard at the BHC told me that when I got a passport renewed in January. Must say it sounded quite odd at the time and someone else has mentioned that NZ is closing their passport office and that they will all be done from Canberra so I have no idea what is the truth.
Mar 18th 2009, 11:11 am
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Re: Canberra UK passport office relocating to NZ
According to the uk in Australia website, the Canberra passport office processes approximately 60,000 applications per year. I don't see how the office would be relocated.
Mar 18th 2009, 11:32 am
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Mar 18th 2009, 12:54 pm
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Re: Canberra UK passport office relocating to NZ
So Canberra will do only visas, and Wellington will do only passports? Huh - interesting. I suppose it makes sense, and that the only people it will negatively affect will be those who used to drop off their apps by hand - which can't be many, can it? If you're doing it by post it shouldn't make a difference...should it?
Mar 19th 2009, 1:34 am
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Re: Canberra UK passport office relocating to NZ
So Canberra will do only visas, and Wellington will do only passports? Huh - interesting. I suppose it makes sense, and that the only people it will negatively affect will be those who used to drop off their apps by hand - which can't be many, can it? If you're doing it by post it shouldn't make a difference...should it?
Though as my post from the UK usually arrives qquicker than my post from inside Aus it may make the service quicker if not cheaper!
Mar 19th 2009, 1:50 am
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Re: Canberra UK passport office relocating to NZ
They send them by secure post in other words have to sign for them. I know because the last time mine got signed for by someone and put in my letter box and there was a big hoo ha about it as it was not my signature and we do not know who did it. Might have been a neighbour but never found out anyway but the courier firm were not impressed with their employee as they can lose the business.
