UK passport Renewal at Trendy Building

[stubuzz]

I will drop my daughter's passport application at Trendy this week, but i don't want to take another day off to collect it.  Does anyone know if any of the visa agents in the building offer a collection and forwarding service?

Thanks.

[natway09]

Why your daughter can not pick up when you are advised of it's return in about 4 weeks?

 

[hobobo]

35 minutes ago, natway09 said:

Why your daughter can not pick up when you are advised of it's return in about 4 weeks?

 

Maybe she's too young? A five-year old alone on the streets of Bangkok?

[jkcjag]

They do offer the option of delivery back to your address if you want.

[Jip99]

3 minutes ago, jkcjag said:

They do offer the option of delivery back to your address if you want.

 

 

No they don't - it has to be collected personally.

[jkcjag]

1 minute ago, Jip99 said:

 

 

No they don't - it has to be collected personally.

My wife just had hers delivered

[Jip99]

23 minutes ago, jkcjag said:

My wife just had hers delivered

 

 

Not by VfS she didn't.

[macahoom]

24 minutes ago, jkcjag said:

My wife just had hers delivered

 

Is your wife's passport a UK one?

 

That's what the OP is talking about.

[Jip99]

23 minutes ago, jkcjag said:

My wife just had hers delivered

 

 

Not by VfS she didn't.

[stubuzz]

40 minutes ago, Jip99 said:

No they don't - it has to be collected personally.

Getting your passport

Your passport will be delivered to the UK Visa Application Centre where you applied.

They will contact you - using the details on your application form - when your passport is ready to collect.

You must collect in person. If you’re unable to, someone else can go on your behalf.

You must bring your existing passport as photo ID.

[Jip99]

24 minutes ago, stubuzz said:

Getting your passport

Your passport will be delivered to the UK Visa Application Centre where you applied.

They will contact you - using the details on your application form - when your passport is ready to collect.

You must collect in person. If you’re unable to, someone else can go on your behalf.

You must bring your existing passport as photo ID.

 

 

indeed.

 

More detail here:-

 

https://www.passport.service.gov.uk/overseas/information/thailand/renew/adult

[Bangkok Barry]

The reason you must collect it yourself appears to be special to Thailand (and maybe the odd other country or two) because Thailand demands that you must carry your passport with you at all times. Of course, in typical Thailand-style no-one does and nobody ever demands to see it. But it is the (ignored) law. So you must be allowed to retain your 'expired' passport (it expires as soon as the application for a new one is lodged) until your new one is ready (in about two weeks, although they tell you four).

You must then appear in person with the old passport so they can cut the corner off it so it is officially of no more use. They also give you a form that asks the Thai authorities to transfer any visa you might have, although that appears in my experience to not be needed. As you leave the country produce both passports and the immigration officer does whatever needs to be done.

I wrote that the passport holder must appear in person, but as mentioned above they can nominate someone else. But the important thing, the reason for it not being posted to you, is to officially invalidate the old one so they have to bring that to Trendy.

 

The OP has said that the new passport is for a five-year-old though, and if it is her first passport they MAY post it if asked. I don't know. The OP should ask when he puts in the application.

Edited July 25, 2018 by Bangkok Barry

[Psimbo]

Brit renewal is a PITA. Canadian Embassy is happy to accept and despatch by EMS (10 days all told to renew)- why is it so difficult for others not to do the same.

 

As I was in Thailand on my Can Pport I renewed the Brit one back in the UK and had someone bring it out for me- far less hassle  than 2 trips to Bkk and all legal.

[stubuzz]

FYI- I went to trendy today and most of the visa companies offer a pick up service. They will collect the passport and forward it to you for 500bt.

[rickudon]

Pick up service - are the visa companies at Trendy or do you have to arrange this yourself in advance?

[Jip99]

1 minute ago, rickudon said:

Pick up service - are the visa companies at Trendy or do you have to arrange this yourself in advance?

 

 

 

You need to provide them with written authority........... so presumably in advance.

[stubuzz]

You can do it after you have submitted your application. You will need your receipt and sign a letter giving them authority. Kids's passports need a copy of their birth certificate too.

[farang1979]

So, as it says in this thread, and also on the passport office you can get someone to collect it on your behalf. How do you issue them power of attorney to do that? ????

[UKresonant]

12 hours ago, farang1979 said:

So, Mk as it says in this thread, and also on the passport office you can get someone to collect it on your behalf. How do you issue them power of attorney to do that? ????

The wife gave just them the receipt paper and the old passport as far as I know (to a work colleague, not an agent).