£50 for a passport renewal

[tomjones2]

Does anyone else think this is a bit steep, considiering the forms are machine read anyway?

BTW this is the price for the standard 5/10 year renewal for a new photo and that it

Sounds a bit more like a tax to be, and accoriding to the passport agency they issue 5 million passports each year - at a £50-£100 a go.

Wish i ran the passport agency, it not like they can have any competion is it.

[TSM]

Thanks for reminding me, i need a new one this year. What a rip off.

[kwak zzr]

robbing buggers! its always the same we just have to bend over and take it!! :(

[lynw]

robbing buggers! its always the same we just have to bend over and take it!! :(

So you're objecting to paying £5 per year then? :?

Frankly I think thats quite reasonable still tbh. Its only because you pay for it in one go at £50 it seems unreasonable.

Though wonder if work will now pay for mine since I need one :wink: :lol:

[Oggyplonk]

i agree :lol:

[timwilky]

My employers require me to have a passport. I therefore recover the cost on expenses, so cost is never been an issue

[kwak zzr]

robbing buggers! its always the same we just have to bend over and take it!! :(

So you're objecting to paying £5 per year then? :?

Frankly I think thats quite reasonable still tbh. Its only because you pay for it in one go at £50 it seems unreasonable.

Though wonder if work will now pay for mine since I need one :wink: :lol:

yes.

[tomjones2]

robbing buggers! its always the same we just have to bend over and take it!! :(

So you're objecting to paying £5 per year then? :?

Frankly I think thats quite reasonable still tbh. Its only because you pay for it in one go at £50 it seems unreasonable.

Though wonder if work will now pay for mine since I need one :wink: :lol:

sorry but I still think it pretty steep.

I might be wrong here don't all the passport agency have to do is issue the actual document and maintain a database that dosent change very much. In that case £5 a year does sound quite steep.

Call me a sceptic but i very much doubt that the whole of that £50 pounds goes to the passport agency.

[lynw]

robbing buggers! its always the same we just have to bend over and take it!! :(

So you're objecting to paying £5 per year then? :?

Frankly I think thats quite reasonable still tbh. Its only because you pay for it in one go at £50 it seems unreasonable.

Though wonder if work will now pay for mine since I need one :wink: :lol:

yes.

:roll:

Works out at 1.36 pence per day. And you complain. Middle name Eberneezer by any chance? :roll: :? :P :lol:

tomjones, it also covers all the cost the Foreign office has to incur should anything happen abroad. Or would you rather be in the middle of nowhere and have no lifeline at all to legal representation/replacement of passport/other help the embassies provide?

People obviously dont realise how much it actually costs the government to help people abroad each year. :?

If you object, dont go abroad then. Simple. :D

[Cronos]

A typical example of a 'charge' being levied by a public monopoly where the charge outweighs the reasonable cost of provision. :roll:

Still it'll be cheap in comparison to the next generation planned by Big Brother. :x

[rigor]

People obviously dont realise how much it actually costs the government to help people abroad each year. :?


* £9.65 of the price of every ten-year passport funds all consular work from the FCO. This equates to less than £1 a year for every Briton who travels abroad

OK, what about the other £40 then :P

[Spiderman]

People obviously dont realise how much it actually costs the government to help people abroad each year. :?


* £9.65 of the price of every ten-year passport funds all consular work from the FCO. This equates to less than £1 a year for every Briton who travels abroad

OK, what about the other £40 then :P

Drugs n rent boys for the politicians of course :lol:

[lynw]

People obviously dont realise how much it actually costs the government to help people abroad each year. :?


* £9.65 of the price of every ten-year passport funds all consular work from the FCO. This equates to less than £1 a year for every Briton who travels abroad

OK, what about the other £40 then :P

Drugs n rent boys for the politicians of course :lol:

Part of that is the cost of the new anti-fraud measures. From Feb 06 apparently the passports are implementing the new biometric implementations. Theyre also introducing interviews for first time applicants making it much harder to get one in the first place. Thats where the passport office costs are going. So £10 is the FO, probably £20 for the new technology and £20 for the passport office to assess the applications all told.

Still could be worse, you could be Australian where the passport cost equates to £64, with an economy that would suggest it should be £40. :P :D

[tomjones2]

robbing buggers! its always the same we just have to bend over and take it!! :(

So you're objecting to paying £5 per year then? :?

Frankly I think thats quite reasonable still tbh. Its only because you pay for it in one go at £50 it seems unreasonable.

Though wonder if work will now pay for mine since I need one :wink: :lol:

yes.

:roll:

Works out at 1.36 pence per day. And you complain. Middle name Eberneezer by any chance? :roll: :? :P :lol:

tomjones, it also covers all the cost the Foreign office has to incur should anything happen abroad. Or would you rather be in the middle of nowhere and have no lifeline at all to legal representation/replacement of passport/other help the embassies provide?

People obviously dont realise how much it actually costs the government to help people abroad each year. :?

If you object, dont go abroad then. Simple. :D


Lynw no need to call me Eberneezer i just raised what many people seem to think is an unfair charge.

I belive that the foreign office make plenty of money issuing visa's and such like.

If you look at today news the foriegn office are making plans to charge more people who create prolbems via their own stupidty. Personally i would like to see people who cause problems abroad charged providing they can pay. Anyone who finds themselves in trouble due to circumstances beyond there control should be bailed out by our goverment it why we have one.

Finally all the little daily £1.36 the goverment place on us have a habit of adding up to make things quite expensive. We need to pay taxes but there no need to acept the blindly

[embee]

Just went into the Post Orifice today to get a renewal form, and used the photo booth while I was in there (no, I used it to get photos done! Some people's minds, eh? :roll: )

Anyway, I reckon there's something wrong with their photo booth, I got the photos for some grey haired old git instead of the lithe stripling I know I am. Still, having coughed the £3-50 I may as well use them. :^o

[Stingo]

:winner: :lol: :lol: (had a similar problem myself recently!!) :lol:

[lynw]

Lynw no need to call me Eberneezer i just raised what many people seem to think is an unfair charge.

Sorry, if you go back and reread my quote you'll see I was jokingly aiming that at Kwak. :wink: :P

Finally all the little daily £1.36 the goverment place on us have a habit of adding up to make things quite expensive. We need to pay taxes but there no need to acept the blindly

Go back and read my post properly. Its 1.36 PENCE per day. :wink: :P :lol:

I can see how that adds up. Its £50 per decade. :wink: :twisted: :P :lol:

[Sid Squid]

Anyway, I reckon there's something wrong with their photo booth, I got the photos for some grey haired old git instead of the lithe stripling I know I am. Still, having coughed the £3-50 I may as well use them. :^o

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Funniest thing I've read in ages :!:

[kjames]

i'm having to have my marriage certificate 'attested' basically stamped by loads of money gradding embassies and solicitors... so far the same bit of paper has gone to the
thai embassy (i got married in thai land ) £20
Notary public. (dodgy solictor above a chicken shop in golders green) £35.. 5 mins work.
Foriegn office. £19
UAE embassy £20.

plus a parking ticket along the way.£50.

now these are government monopolies making money out of a none process..i'[ve still got the same bit of paper, but now with various stamps and other bits of paper stuck to.. :evil:


karl

[kwak zzr]

"jokingly aiming that at Kwak"

strange but true :roll:

[lynw]

"jokingly aiming that at Kwak"

strange but true :roll:

awww sorry. :grouphug:

[kwak zzr]

:grouphug: i prefere carefull :thumbsup:

[Cronos]

Part of that is the cost of the new anti-fraud measures. From Feb 06 apparently the passports are implementing the new biometric implementations. Theyre also introducing interviews for first time applicants making it much harder to get one in the first place. Thats where the passport office costs are going. So £10 is the FO, probably £20 for the new technology and £20 for the passport office to assess the applications all told.

Assuming this is all true from a cost allocation perspective (which incidentally I seriously doubt) then all that would confirm is that they've been overcharging before these developments.

[Ed]

i'm having to have my marriage certificate 'attested' basically stamped by loads of money gradding embassies and solicitors... so far the same bit of paper has gone to the
thai embassy (i got married in thai land ) £20
Notary public. (dodgy solictor above a chicken shop in golders green) £35.. 5 mins work.
Foriegn office. £19
UAE embassy £20.

plus a parking ticket along the way.£50.

now these are government monopolies making money out of a none process..i'[ve still got the same bit of paper, but now with various stamps and other bits of paper stuck to.. :evil:


karl

Bloody hell. Normal requirement for a UK document is for 'legalisation' only - as long as the country in which you intend to use the document is a signatory to the Hague Convention. For a UK document the Foreign Office charges £19. Don't know what Thailand charges but something similar I would guess.

I recently drafted and completed a power of attorney to allow some Germans resident in the UK to appoint a Belgian to buy real estate in Romania (which is a signatory to the Hague Conv). Total cost was a shade over £85, including the FCO £19.

I'm cheap, see :D

My passport expires in May - yes I will grumble about the cost but there is no alternative. It's a bit like having to pay £19 for a replacement veicle registration cert from DVLA - no choice :evil:

[timwilky]

There are time when I have been in foreign parts that I am glad the world is pink and my British passport means something.

then

I get this floppy red thing deliver by the Royal Mail, I quite liked myblack hard thing. The photograph looks nothing like the young strapping lad I know myself to be.


I say bring back a British passport. I am not european I am Lancastrian and if I find you to be friendly, will also admit to be English. but dont push it further.