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passport help
I really confused with this form. Even if you lost your passport say 20 years ago would you still do a lost and stolen ? Quote:
If not what option would British born citizen select out of these options. This is direct quote of the passport help form.
Born or adopted before 1 Jan 83 not naturalised or registered Born or adopted 1 Jan 83 to 30 June 06 not naturalised or registered Born or adopted before 1 July 2006 not naturalised or registered when you have been naturalised or registered British |
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Best post a true/ honest answer
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Even if you lost your passport say 20 years ago would you still do a lost and stolen ?
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Follow the process for getting a first adult passport if the last passport you had was an old black or blue passport.
which I presume would be the case for one lost that long ago.
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Isn't there a helpline number? If there is call that and ask them.
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A friend of mine had his passport stolen in Barcelona in 2005. This year he has had problems at many airports (he travels often) without understanding why. Finally he was arrested in Dubai and spent a night in prison - but at least, finally, he found out why he was attracting so much attention: his identity had been stolen by a Brazilian drug dealer who had been tried in his absence - in my friend's name and with his identity - in Brazil and given a prison sentence, with his name being added to a "fugitive" list and circulated worldwide. It has taken considerable effort on his part, including the involvement of Interpol AND having to hire a lawyer in Brazil - to even START to sort out this mess - and he HAD reported his passport stolen in 2005 when he got his replacement.
I long for the day when we're all micro-chipped! |
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A friend of mine had his passport stolen in Barcelona in 2005. This year he has had problems at many airports (he travels often) without understanding why. Finally he was arrested in Dubai and spent a night in prison - but at least, finally, he found out why he was attracting so much attention: his identity had been stolen by a Brazilian drug dealer who had been tried in his absence - in my friend's name and with his identity - in Brazil and given a prison sentence, with his name being added to a "fugitive" list and circulated worldwide. It has taken considerable effort on his part, including the involvement of Interpol AND having to hire a lawyer in Brazil - to even START to sort out this mess - and he HAD reported his passport stolen in 2005 when he got his replacement.
I long for the day when we're all micro-chipped! ![]() p.s. Actually I think I was on my second new passport when I got stopped. I had mine stolen in 2001 and did not travel again anywhere until 2015 and was on the second passport on from the one that got stolen. I was told after being asked to wait that a note had been added on to ask officials not to stop me again on that basis but as I've lost a fair bit of weight, officials looked really shocked at both destinations at how different I looked but I don't look that much different anyway, just different hair do, and the lack of shaving and loss of weight is probably what threw them on me looking "different". |
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A friend of ours booked a cruise. His passport was lost in a fire 20 years ago, along with his birth certificate, marriage certificate, and all other family records. He is 85 and disabled and was expected to travel up to Edinburgh to get duplicate birth cert, parents birth and marriage certs, then go to either Belfast or London to be interviewed. They would not accept that he had had a passport before. He cancelled the cruise and lost his £500 deposit, as it would have cost more than that to travel to London and take a someone with him to push his wheelchair.
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A friend of ours booked a cruise. His passport was lost in a fire 20 years ago, along with his birth certificate, marriage certificate, and all other family records. He is 85 and disabled and was expected to travel up to Edinburgh to get duplicate birth cert, parents birth and marriage certs, then go to either Belfast or London to be interviewed. They would not accept that he had had a passport before. He cancelled the cruise and lost his £500 deposit, as it would have cost more than that to travel to London and take a someone with him to push his wheelchair.
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was expected to travel up to Edinburgh to get duplicate birth cert, parents birth and marriage certs.
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Why would he have to do that in person? You can get them sent out by post.
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A friend of ours booked a cruise. His passport was lost in a fire 20 years ago, along with his birth certificate, marriage certificate, and all other family records. He is 85 and disabled and was expected to travel up to Edinburgh to get duplicate birth cert, parents birth and marriage certs, then go to either Belfast or London to be interviewed. They would not accept that he had had a passport before. He cancelled the cruise and lost his £500 deposit, as it would have cost more than that to travel to London and take a someone with him to push his wheelchair.
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Not without the specific details of his parents - they died when he was 3 so couldn't remember their details. I spent an hour on the phone to the Register office and got nowhere. Eventually enlisted another friend who had online search access who eventually found the details we needed.
In the circumstances, he would (fairly obviously) have been better advised to get the passport sorted before booking a cruise, to be honest. |
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