British Passport @ Trendy - Time

[natway09]

Poor old Scottie John living in a world of his own again.

Best bet would be to ask them at Trendy when you go do it. Sound reasonable?

[anon789561]

3 hours ago, Hooliganzone said:

Just collected mine last week they told me "a month but will be before that" I got an email from Trendy that my passport was ready for collection only 2 weeks after my application.

they are pretty impressive i have to say

they stick your docs straight into a dhl envelope for liverpool. mine took about 10 days. very good. no queue. really impressed with them really. i got the email the same as you and thought no, can't be. sure enough. turned up to trendy after about 5 in the sportsman and it was there. very good service

[Jip99]

31 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

How would he get a one month extension of his extension based upon retirement? There is not one he could apply for.

 

 

I made the assumption he was married

[Nong Khai Man]

On 1/7/2018 at 4:51 PM, worgeordie said:

Do they/can they post it to you when it's finished,

or have you got to go and collect it?not easy when

you live in Chiang Mai.

Or could this be possible,send it to my daughter in

UK, use her address and get her to post it to Liverpool

or where ever they are doing them now ?

regards worgeordie

They Can't Do Either of you're suggestions....Simple Reason YOU Have to sign the NEW Passport in their presence....

[Nong Khai Man]

7 hours ago, baneko said:

 

I beleive you can do it in Chiang Mai.

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NO You CANNOT !!!

[Nong Khai Man]

 

38 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

You can authorize somebody to pickup your new passport but they have to have the old one when they do it.

Agreed I Picked up My Mates at the same time as I Did my own,You Must have HIS Old Passport & Authourization Slip that they gave him with his application...

[bluemoon58]

Is there anyone know if there's a place in Hua Hin does renewals of Brit passports?

[Nong Khai Man]

3 minutes ago, phartley58 said:

Is there anyone know if there's a place in Hua Hin does renewals of Brit passports?

It's Only a 3 Hour ( At Most ) Road Trip....DIY & Save the 5,000 Baht Agents Fee...

[mikecha]

if u 28 0n 28 off get a Business  Passport these are double the pages   

[Bangkok Barry]

8 hours ago, jaiyen said:

I have just renewed mine from Perth Australia and it was all done online. You can even take your own photo to submit. Photo must be good though. Application went to Liverpool, posted old passport.  Went through in 3 weeks and old and new ones were posted to me seperately. Very easy to do. When i got it back I did my Australian re entry Visa online and that took 3 days. All very easy now and no stickers in passport

Different rules for different countries. That's why on the .gov website they ask where you're applying from.

[Bangkok Barry]

3 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

But not for passports. The old passport has to be shown when it is picked up so that it can be physically canceled.

They used to courier the new passport, from the UK. My last one came that way in 2011. So why has that changed, I wonder?

[Jip99]

2 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

They used to courier the new passport, from the UK. My last one came that way in 2011. So why has that changed, I wonder?

 

They still do courier (DHL)..... but to VfS for collection.

 

Terrorism - or at least the fight against it - is the stock answer.

[Bangkok Barry]

Just now, Jip99 said:

 

They still do courier (DHL)..... but to VfS for collection.

 

Terrorism - or at least the fight against it - is the stock answer.

That's actually quite funny, because technically all courier services in Thailand are illegal. Because they aren't Thai, I imagine and are competition for EMS. The fine though is about 100 baht a day I think. Or it used to be. I read of this many years ago and maybe it's all changed.

[ubonjoe]

5 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

They used to courier the new passport, from the UK. My last one came that way in 2011. So why has that changed, I wonder?

If I recall correctly the reason given back in 2015 was that people had not properly canceled the passports themselves as instructed (cutting the corners off). I suspect that some passports that were not canceled ended up in the wrong hands.

[Just Weird]

1 hour ago, Nong Khai Man said:

They Can't Do Either of you're suggestions....Simple Reason YOU Have to sign the NEW Passport in their presence....

Your signature is on the application form that is then printed on a UK passport underneath the plastic security sheet.  There is nowhere that a UK passport can be signed.

[The Old Bull]

On 1/7/2018 at 7:41 PM, Lamkyong said:

i do believe that at one time the UK did have a fully functional embassy   at the prime real estate  site on Wireless road  where they did issue passports to their citizens

oh  dear that site now is just for  posh functions for the so called  liberal elite

The Canadian embassy has gone the same way . The staff believe there job is to drink expensive scotch and play golf with the local knobs. They don't give a <deleted> about the citizens who are paying there wages. I can see this applying to a couple of the bosses but even the lowest clerks still have this same attitude.

[keithcresswell]

I did mine on 16th November, it was ready for collection on 30th November.

 

[baneko]

2 trips each of 1.5 hours duration each way may not be a big deal for you. But they most certainly can be for those of us for whom a journey between where we live and Bangkok takes considerably longer - particularly if we live in far-flung corners of LOS such as Chiang Mai and Phukhet.
 
What riles me personally is that the requirement for physical trips to Bangkok only dates back to the introduction of the current arrangements 4 years ago. When I last renewed my passport in 2013, for instance, the furthest I had to travel was to my local post office in order to post my application to Hong Kong (the replacement passport was subsequently couriered to me direct from the UK, and I was entrusted to perform the onerous task of cancelling my old passport by snipping off the top and bottom corners of the front cover myself).
 
As you say, it is down to UK government policy. But at no stage, prior to the introduction of the current renewal procedures or since, have I seen any convincing attempt by the UK government to justify a policy change which has ramifications that are all the greater the further away from Bangkok we live. This smacks to me of the attitude of a totalitarian government, rather than one which (supposedly) has been democratically elected.
 
Finally, the expression "enjoying Bangkok" is, in any case, an oxymoron as far as I am concerned (and in all probability for others as well).

I would say the British Government have a lot more to worry about currently than people living in Thailand having to go to BKK twice every few years.

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[baneko]

NO You CANNOT !!!

Not reading all the posts. We got to that a while ago.

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[baneko]

if u 28 0n 28 off get a Business  Passport these are double the pages   

Its 48 pages instead of 36. I have 2 passports but currently have to send one back to the UK every month for a visa. Its the other one thats almost full. I have no problem going to Trendy. I just need the PP back rapidly. Looks from all posts 2 weeks which is fine. I was 16 days the last time a few yrs ago.

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[dallen52]

Not off topic but I did my uk renewal in Oz 16/12 at Australia post. 

It was back to me special delivery 21/12 from IPS in the UK... 

Unreal service. 

 

Relativity of service... 

Oz to UK 

Thailand to UK 

 

Price difference. 

$270 in Australia. 

£72.50 in the UK. 

 

[OJAS]

15 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

If I recall correctly the reason given back in 2015 was that people had not properly canceled the passports themselves as instructed (cutting the corners off). I suspect that some passports that were not canceled ended up in the wrong hands.

Still doesn't explain why we can't use the online facility for submitting applications, though, which should at least spare us the first of the 2 enforced trips to Bangkok.

[ubonjoe]

2 minutes ago, OJAS said:

Still doesn't explain why we can't use the online facility for submitting applications, though, which should at least spare us the first of the 2 enforced trips to Bangkok.

Because you have to send both your passports to do an online application. They cancel the old one before sending it back to you.

[wgdanson]

21 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

You can authorize somebody to pickup your new passport but they have to have the old one when they do it.

And by law, you should not be without your actual passport at any time. Catch 22 I think.

[anon789561]

2 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

And by law, you should not be without your actual passport at any time. Catch 22 I think.

they don't bother with that here. i mean really. nearly 20 years and i have never been asked to show my passport outside of the normal stuff like immo and banking etc

oh and the one time that i had to go to court, apart from that, never

[persimmon]

Might be difficult to check in to a hotel or guest house without your P/P......they all seem to ask for it now.

[baneko]

Might be difficult to check in to a hotel or guest house without your P/P......they all seem to ask for it now.

Checked into many hotels without my PP. The wife can use her ID or I can supply a copy of my PP.

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[Jip99]

3 hours ago, persimmon said:

Might be difficult to check in to a hotel or guest house without your P/P......they all seem to ask for it now.

 

I always show my Thai D/L..... never been refused..... same for domestic flights.

[dallen52]

9 hours ago, Jip99 said:

 

I always show my Thai D/L..... never been refused..... same for domestic flights.

Same here. 

Because I am known for a long time where I stay. 

Plus they are holding onto many guests passports now and a sign advising this is displayed. 

 

I actually don't think they can do that? 

Retain the passport. 

[Bangkok Barry]

1 hour ago, dallen52 said:

Same here. 

Because I am known for a long time where I stay. 

Plus they are holding onto many guests passports now and a sign advising this is displayed. 

 

I actually don't think they can do that? 

Retain the passport. 

They can't. They should just photocopy as my regular hotel does. Any hotel that wants to keep my passport when the law is alleged to be that we carry it at all times (some argue a p/copy is enough), I refuse or stay elsewhere.