On a thread related to applications for childrens' passports a poster has quoted the following

From UK embassy:

We do apology for delaying passport in the UK, according to the Home Secretary has announced to assist the British Citizen who has applied for the passport to the HM passport office and plan to travel as urgent, they are increased many applicants to apply for an ETD at the British Embassy. To apply for first time Emergency Travel Document (ETD), we still require supporting document of the child, the same as applying for first time passport and have to forward all paperwork via e-mail directly to the Nationality officer to approve for the nationality status and it takes approximately 1-2 weeks before issuing an ETD.

Please prepare as below list, all originals will be returned at the time of application and we require certified translations (ie official translations from a licensed translation) of any documents that they are not in English.

From Trendy:

Importants for HMPO

*The application what apply in Bangkok, Thailand will process and be considered by HMPO in the UK at least 4 weeks up to 6 months approximately

*Please provide your passport and whole pages color copies with your signature on every pages, the other document can be in black-white.

*Thailand country only accept the payment by Credit/Debit card, require to print out and complete the payment form. Submit at the same time with document at HMOP Bangkok Center.

*The applicant need to apply in person in Bangkok, Thailand only

*No posting service but you can allow someone to collect it with your authority latter, please inform it on the day you apply.

*All documents which are not in English need to be translated into English with the official stamp

*The children no need to attend, the parent can apply on behalf of him/her

What is one to make of this?

I reckon the British Government should take a serious look at it's foreign staff recruited locally.

I unnerstood it purrfecly, hic!

*The application what apply in Bangkok, Thailand will process and be considered by HMPO in the UK at least 4 weeks up to 6 months approximately

I'm not entirely sure but does the above mean that you can renew your passport and it will take between 4 and 6 months to process ?

It's in Tinglish, no prom-pem !

Love the way our passport-renewals have extended, from a few weeks (via Hong Kong), to up-to 3 months (back in the UK), but the UK-government still insist there's no problem, and anyway the significant increase in passport-applications was unforeseen, despite their deliberate decision to close several overseas processing-centres !

What a shower of *rats !