Thinking of applying for a British Passport? Price increase incoming February 2023

As others have said... We've just renewed ours last month. No need to pay for a photo, just use your phone. It even tells you whether it's a good photo to use or not.
No need to pay for special delivery to send on your old passport, just use first class signed for...
No need to pay the extra to get your old passport sent back to you special delivery.
They send your new passport bac k by courier anyway as part of the main price. The extra charge is only if you need your old cancelled passport returned to you by special delivery instead of normal post...
Only took 8 days from my online renewal application to receiving new passport...

The cost isn't just for the passport it is also used to fund each and every embassy the UK has in all of the countries we visit. Not that I disagree with you on the cost as it is high but after looking into what it is for I then had a better understanding of why it was so expensive.

My sons came within 2 weeks, no major delays at the minute. Applied on 27th December and we had his new passport on 5th January

No but the renewal is x amount of years from your old expiry date and needs to be done before 6 months is left on your old one if I remember.

This is a lie, The last time a breakdown of the costs were published, I think the Passport Office makes a profit of £30 per passport made, on average.
Factor in last year, when they were charging an extra £90 each for an upgrade, caused by delays...
It's true the Passport Office doesn't make a profit - but only because the profits go to the Treasury.

Nope. An Aussie passport is £185 and a US passport is £105. Our prices are not that bad in global terms.

Welcome! Looking out the window, i think i'm in need of some warmer climates also!

How about keeping a 'spare' passport

UNBELIEVABLE!!

Yep that is what is catching a lot of people out lately.

The use by date is 10 years or 5 for kids

If you are renewing the family passports together at the same time. You of course need to do 4 seperate application and you will receive 4 seperate reference numbers. Put each old passport in a seperate envelope with the reference numbers and then put all 4 passport in one big envelope with one of the references on the front then that way the family application will all stay together. Don't worry about if it gives you different addresses to send them too. You can just send it to any of them. It's all explained on the website.

I know this as I have just renewed mines a week ago for myself and my child, and the passport office have confirmed receipt of same.

Hope this all makes sense. It to help keep the family applications together. Hope this helps:-)

It’s not a visa. It’s a visa waiver. Just like Esta for the USA.

I posted my passport back to them special delivery last Monday, arrived Tuesday waiting for them to update my tracking still 

You clearly miss the point. For example, a Spanish passport costs 30 euros.

That is 3 euros a year in your money.

Save you money and take them yourself.

They've been wfh for the last 2 years.
Need more than a 10% pay rise to pay for their heating on all day.

First thing they did when getting in was to put VAT up 2.5% on EVERYTHING.

Costs for all of us have gone through the roof. Profits and dividends at the top are also literally at record levels.

Gross isn't it?

Only if your appearance has changed considerably.

If you want to visit North Korea make sure your passport is in date.

just use a white wall,selfy camera,well lit room and make sure no shadow behind head. No need to use apps and mine was accepted straight away

Mine expired November 2022 and renewed last week. (edited)

no extra time now, just 10 years from the date of issue

That's what air passenger duty is for. Only get charged if you travel etc...
There's a significant cost overhead involved with producing passports with inbuilt security measures to prevent fraud.

I used recorded post. About £5+ cheaper

when do you send back old passport in the process?

Not everyone needs a passport. Why should they subsidise yours?

Then you wouldn't be allowed to buy the duty frees that the blue passport now allows.

That is deep.

You are surely joking? You do understand that passport blanks are delivered en masse from Poland and then they're printed in the UK to order? They don't print them in Poland then post them from there!

You're not being asked to marry her, its just a word on the passport

yes i agree. The Passport Office emailed me to say my renewal has been approved and its now gone to print took just over a week and a half

You think a 10% increase on passport cost makes travel only for the rich? Surely the cheapest international week away is going to be 5 times the cost of a passport? 

Most welcome @bobdylan