Passport Photos
JonahTakalua
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I've just had to get some done as I am renewing my passport and despite numerous tries I've ended up looking like a cross eyed serial killer 
I don't look like this normally.
Anyone else got horrific passport photos they are ashamed of?
I don't look like this normally.Anyone else got horrific passport photos they are ashamed of?
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I had mine done last summer and apparently now you can't have a fringe in your photo because it can block your eyes when they do the scan at the airport.
She made me clip it back with a manky hairgrip :mad: So I've got a big slaphead forehead and look a bit simple!!
Oh no! I feel for you! I'm shocked they accepted my last passport photos 10 years ago. You could barely see any of my hair apart from a little dyed red tinge at the front. Don't think I would get away with it now.
You're not alone
My daughter had to have her's redone as her face was "too pale" now this was done by Snappy Snaps who know what they are doing but the passport people could not get it to scan as her complexion was too pale - she was in a mood on the day that photo was taken (try telling a 14 year old not to smile on a photo) was in a right grump on the second one! Snappy Snaps were very good though and redid that photo at no charge.
Looking back on the first photo now though she does look like an extra for the Twilight films - she would fit right in with the Cullens - Maybe that is a reason why her photo would not scan :eek:
Give us all a giggle and post it
In January 2012 I had my passport stolen in Spain. Just renewed as well so I was fuming mad. The photo was taken one month before.
I took a new one out three months later but decided i'd better send another photograph just to be on the safe side. Imagine my surprise when my application was refused on the grounds that, "the applicants features are incorrect". :eek:
So I phoned Passport House and asked them what was going on. The conversation was farcical. "Well we don't think it is you in the photograph". So I asked, "how do you know what I look like?" Long pause then, "errrm well we don't".
So I told them what had happened in Spain and on re-entry back into the UK i'd had to go to an Immigration Officer to fill in forms on how the Passport had been stolen. "Yes we have record of that here sir", they replied, so I asked if they could still access my photo from that.
Bingo! They could! But they still insisted I "looked different". :rolleyes:
How different, I asked. "Well you appear to have more hair" they replied.
Of course I do......I haven't had my hair cut since then!
Eventually I got my new Passport! :rolleyes: