uktony

Help!

Three of us are off to Belgium tomorrow. One of the girls can't find her passport and thinks she might have thrown it away, by mistake of course.

What can she do? The passport office web site suggests that application for lost passports are not available under the same day service.

L19ESA

The best thing to do is probably get her to go to the nearest passport office in person and explain whats happened, you may need to apply for a new passport which you can do on the same day but if i remember rightly there is an extra charge for this. Good Luck

NACRO

She needs to get to the passport office and get a new one. Might be a bit busy this time of year though.

uktony

Passport office is sympathetic, but will treat her as a new applicant, and take at least a week.

Do you actually need a passport to go to Europe these days?

fast bloke

yep - can she not borrow her sisters of something?

L19ESA

Yes, you do need a passport for travelling within in Europe its only for travelling within the UK that you only need some form of photo id that doesnt need to be a passport.

uktony

No go on borrowing someone else's passport.

Can't even smuggle her into the boot, 'cos this time we're flying.

Luke

Airlines will only accept full passports.

It is possible to get a passport in a few hours... Depends on the reason....

Alpine99

I went to Liverpool passport office and got my GF's done in a day.. was a pain and involved lots of queueing.. better than killing her though which was my 2nd option..

fitzscoob

my mate lost his and we went to the main place in london, and sat and queued for about 7 hours and they gave him a 6 month one or something like that, im sure they can do something.

Little Miss WRX

Got mine sorted out in a day a few years back by sitting at the Liverpool office for a few hours.

Diesel

Take your birth certificate with you.

uksti

better still take hers !

douglasb

As it's EU travel, if you turn up at the airport with tickets and some form of ID (photo driving licence might be good) and explain the situation you should get away with it. You may need to explain again at the Belgian end, but I've seen this done several times.

So long as she's European, has a return ticket, and can prove who she is, she should be able to go on holiday without a passport, but with maybe a bit of hassle.

Doug

Luke

Doug


I would be very surprised...... maybe.....

FLAT ERIC

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Handcuff her between the two of you that have passports & say she's an "illegal" that has taken up the Government sponsored voluntary repatriation scheme.

They will probably give you a seat upgrade & carry your hand luggage out to the plane for you.

Mark

[Edited by FLAT ERIC - 8/21/2003 10:39:00 PM]

boxst

Hello

The passport office has changed recently, they only like to accept appointments and are grotty about giving passports on the same day.

If you whinge enough, and alternatively plead and threaten (not joking) then you may get it done. I got my 3 month old daughters passport in two days even though it was "impossible" to do it in under 5...

Steve.

uktony

Thanks all

She spoke to the helpline in London and her local office in Cardiff and RyanAir. All of them said "sorry..no go"

She's now gone to work and me and the g/f are off for a romantic weekend

Jza

Just offer £50 to a french lorry driver in Dover.. he'll get her over since he'll have lots of space in the back now he's "unloaded"