Answered4 years ago
What is the current status of UK passport applications, and can I travel while waiting for a new passport?
Update on UK passport application. Just got notification from VFS in Bangkok that my childs first passport has been delivered to them and awaits collection. From being sent to the UK processing and returning 23 days, so not too bad. The UK passport office is now on strike for a month so big delays now possible.
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A user updates about their child's UK passport application, which has been processed in 23 days despite ongoing strikes at the UK passport office. Comments discuss potential delays, the ability to travel internationally with an old passport that has not been officially marked, and inquiries about obtaining a UK visitor's visa for a Thai spouse.
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Tulip ********
Ps Should be no problem.
Tulip ********
Hi, Mark, perhaps it would be a good idea to get her used to the culture of God's Own Country, by showing her the movie ''Inbred'' I can think of no better way to prepare a Thai woman to meet the family. 😉
Mark *********
I have a British passport and I'd like to take my Thai wife with me to visit my English family in good old Yorkshire. Does anyone know if getting a British Visitor's visa for her would be problematic (lots of travel with me around Asia and Canada, no criminal convictions etc, owns a rice farm and house in Udon, 2 grown up childen and Ma and Pa in Udon )?
Richard ********
Does anyone know for sure whether you can or can't travel internationally while waiting for your new one? They didn't cut the corners of my current one saying they would do that when the new one arrives. There is no other marking so do they notify Thai Immigration?
Will ************
OP@Richard *******
Yes you can travel BUT VFS GLOBAL can only hold your new passport for 30 days before they must send it back to your home countryRichard ********
@Will ***********
Great, thanksRon *******
@Richard *******
just at the airport now. I have an appointment on Saturday morning in the UK to collect my new passport.I can't be messing around for 12 weeks or more to do it in Bangkok
Richard ********
@Ron ******
Damn, why do they make it so complicated?Ron *******
@Richard *******
as soon as you apply for a new UK passport, your old passport is entered into the worldwide database.You cannot travel on it.
Richard ********
@Will ***********
Yes, they told me that 😊Will ************
OP@Richard *******
when you get your new passport you must take the old one and they will chop the corner offRichard ********
Great, I dropped mine off last week!
Bob **********
Big delays for sure
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