Paying for new British passport

[justaphase]

I've seen on the website that I have to pay by credit card for my new British passport. I simply dont have one. I have a debit card, but Ive changed addresses and it's not set up for online payment.

Help!!

[ubonjoe]

Moved to here.

You can use a friends or family members card to pay for it. You put their name, card number and etc on the form.

Debit cards are accepted but many from Thai banks will not work.

[dageurreotype]

Or you could transfer the fee and paperwork to this outfit and they'll do everything, including paying via their own credit card and no requirement to trip up to Trendy http://:[email protected]

[autanic]

ubonjoe is correct ! Most UK Debits will DECLINE in Thailand . . . Too Hot !!!

[lemonjelly]

Lousy service from the UK Consulate.... You can walk in there with the cash, desperate for a new passport, and they'll turn you away. It's embarrassing. Are other nationalities from first world countries treated in this manner by their consulates?

[lemonjelly]

Or you could transfer the fee and paperwork to this outfit and they'll do everything, including paying via their own credit card and no requirement to trip up to Trendy http://:[email protected]

Very funny

[meatboy]

i have just obtained a new uk.passport,as i live 250kiloms.from bkk.i used this service advertised[renewing your british passport.] everything done for me except for filling in the forms.

i had no credit card either so i used a freind who did.

this saved me 4x5hr.trips to bkk and back.

all done for me cost 5,100bht. plus the cost of a new passport.

[johninbkk71]

Kasikorn bank and SCB will allow you to use you debit card like a credit card. Kasikorn was the one I used for my renewal, but it was not easy I needed a Thai to help me, this is truly one of the most incompetent banks in Thailand.

Recently I used my SCB debit card as a credit card, the webpage is not easy to find, but a quick email to their customer service and five minutes later a link to a page. Filled in the details got a one time code, worked no problem

[evadgib]

Bump

 

Passport related link, video and annual stats released today: 

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/foreign-office-helps-over-1000-brits-make-it-home-for-christmas                     

Edited December 22, 2016 by evadgib

[OJAS]

2 hours ago, evadgib said:

Bump

 

Passport related link, video and annual stats released today: 

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/foreign-office-helps-over-1000-brits-make-it-home-for-christmas                     

 

Would be nice if they could also help those of us living in Thailand who need to renew our passports by persuading their HMPO colleagues to allow us once again to send our applications directly to their Liverpool office and have our replacement passports couriered directly to us without the need for 2 physical trips to an office building with an exceedingly silly name in downtown Bangkok from whatever far-flung corner of LOS we live in!