my unexpired US visa is in the old passport, i think i now have to carry both old and new passport when i go to the states? paying £77 for that KMFFFTTTTT
― lex pretend, Saturday, 24 March 2012 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
to get a renewal u just need to send the old one in but i want to keep it but getting a new one from scratch is a pain in the ass waaa
― lag∞n, Saturday, 24 March 2012 13:52 (twelve years ago) link
i think they're meant to send the old one back. i've become v attached to the various stamps and visas in there, don't want a blank slate
― lex pretend, Saturday, 24 March 2012 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
#firstworldproblems
― lex pretend, Saturday, 24 March 2012 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
its tough
― lag∞n, Saturday, 24 March 2012 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
just sent away for a renewal last night, 80 quid for ten years isn't bad tbh
― less of the same (darraghmac), Saturday, 24 March 2012 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
oh shit they do send the old one back phew!
― lag∞n, Saturday, 24 March 2012 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
Oh crap this reminds me I have to finish my application to renew my German one. It's this big dumb process and I need to get some original forms and some things notarized and it all has to be taken to the embassy in person. I have half of the stuff they need already submitted but I need to get the other half done now. At least this one will be good or 10 years. My old one was only good for 5 because I was under 25 when I got it or something weird like that.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Saturday, 24 March 2012 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
im sure thatll come in handy
― lag∞n, Saturday, 24 March 2012 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
At this point it's mostly good for getting to use shorter customs lines when traveling but that's certainly something.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Saturday, 24 March 2012 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
so weird how DL pictures usually suck, but I can't think of a bad pp picture I've seen.
― pplains, Saturday, 24 March 2012 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
u get to choose yr passport pic, where at the dmv they just take it w/a super sucky camera and youre stuck
― lag∞n, Saturday, 24 March 2012 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
i worked at photolab where we took passport pictures and people were always asking for reshoots
― lag∞n, Saturday, 24 March 2012 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
The one I took for this one was horrible. I thought I looked like a serial killer but then the lady at the embassy said something about how it was a great picture and I should be in hollywood and I couldn't tell if she was mocking me or not. I felt like The Griswolds in European Vacation when the French concierge makes fun of all their pictures.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Saturday, 24 March 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
Mine recently expired. I suppose I have to get a new picture? It says I can renew through the mail and my old passport picture is accurate enough!
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Bulgarian Tourist Chamber (Mount Cleaners), Friday, 13 April 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty sure you have to get new pics, sorry
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 April 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
general rule of thumb: whatever option costs money is the option that Immigration will recommend
Recently renewed my passport. The previous one contained stamps from just one trip to Ireland in 2000.
The passport before that one expired after a single use in 1981. On that trip I flew to London as the cheapest possible way to cross the ocean, after which I took a bus from London to Athens. This meant I got to cross a lot of borders and so it contained many stamps from countries I 'visited' for a few hours en route.
― Aimless, Friday, 13 April 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
£77 to renew this thing kmt kmt kmt
before i did the conversion i was boggling at how inexpensive a uk passport is
but otm
― Masonic Butt (Lamp), Friday, 13 April 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
heh last summer I got pages added to my passport. did it about three weeks after a new policy was implemented that charged $77 USD for the privilege. before that, it was free. fuckers
― swaghand (dayo), Friday, 13 April 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
Renewing an expired passport / renewing a valid passport = costs exactly the same. which seems really assholeish to me. Immigration are jerks and I hate them always.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 April 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
Immigration are jerks and I hate them always.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, April 13, 2012 4:32 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
*KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!*
― pplains, Friday, 13 April 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
;_;
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 April 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
whatever option costs money is the option that Immigration will recommend
sex change
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Friday, 13 April 2012 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
they would if they could make you pay them for the operation
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 April 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
While I'm at it, I might look at dual citizenship too, costs not much more than a passport.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Bulgarian Tourist Chamber (Mount Cleaners), Friday, 13 April 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
really love going through my passport for the stamps in it, to remember all those trips. which is why i do not want to hand it over once it expires/runs out of empty pages. is that smth you can do?
― Jibe, Saturday, 14 April 2012 05:19 (twelve years ago) link
Ask to keep the old passport and they'd prb do sth like stamp 'void' on the picture page and/or cut the corners off the other pages.
― salsa shark, Saturday, 14 April 2012 11:24 (twelve years ago) link
'or cut the corners off the other pages'
― salsa shark, Saturday, 14 April 2012 11:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/04/cia-spies-biometric-tech/
― beachville, Saturday, 14 April 2012 11:34 (twelve years ago) link
right they clip a corner off the cover, here in canadai get the 48 page passport now which makes me feel worldly and special butit's just really easy to rack up stamps going in and out of places
just walking across the border from shenzhen to hk and back = chinese exit stamp + hk U CAN STAY FOR 90 DAYS stamp + hk entry stamp + hk departed + china entry some of the worst moments of my life have been losing my passport in foreign states---- i never actually LOSE it, i just can't find it. last time i lost it in korea somehow, with zero money in my pocket, just a plane ticket. i tore through the home of the girl i was staying with several dozen times, then did this inch by inch search, sweating profusely, heart racing. funny storrrry. suddenly a vague memory came to me of giving it to the girl to look after or something and i sort of asked her casually, "hey have you seen my passport???"
my passport is always weathered and looks slightly waterdamaged from soaking in lapsweat in a front pocket.
also i like standing in airport customs lineups or whatever and checking out passports.
― dylannn, Saturday, 14 April 2012 11:37 (twelve years ago) link
thanks to seeing this thread a few days ago, i remembered to renew my passport!
they just clipped the upper corner off and let me keep the old one. it's too bad its time has come to an end - i had a pretty gnarly stamp collection going (for someone who doesn't travel for work):Thailand Cambodia Thailand PeruArgentinaUruguayArgentinaAmsterdamTunisiaEgypt (this one is super nice looking with a little silver reflective sticker)IstanbulMunichVienna
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
My passport is mainly full of US entry stamps, US Visas and holes where the uncivilised thugs staple I-94s in place.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
currently renewing mine, using this pic from a wedding 'photo booth'
http://i.imgur.com/XIVqR.jpg
sup h8rs
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
classic passport facial expression
mine will never be revealed itt
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
ooh btw I learned about travelling with dual passports on the fly
totally got confused by the whole, use my Australian pp to enter/leave, use my american pp to enter. Customs/Border/Immigration ppl at the airports were v helpful in this regard, which surprised me bc their office-bound counterparts are the exact opposite of helpful
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
you mean use the aussie passport to enter and leave australia, right?and the US passport to enter the US, right?
makes sense. shorter lines, no time limit on your stay.
― mr. jane goodall (toandos), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
sup icey
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/923/2004pp.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
xpost - exactly! it makes total sense when you say it out loud but for some reason this was a v difficult concept for my tiny brain to grasp
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
rip 2002
http://i.imgur.com/KO8mp.jpg
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
why is this so stressful?
― Lamp, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
because everything to do with Immigration is always stressful, imo
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 02:28 (twelve years ago) link
I am dealing with country A -> use country A passport if you have it. I am so silly about travel. If I had two passports, they'd be labeled or buried in a pouch labeled by country
― mh, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
Luckily they are labelled by country on their front cover :)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 02:53 (twelve years ago) link
some are blue, some are maroon, maybe there are other colors
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
feel like green could also be a passport color
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 02:56 (twelve years ago) link
I would like a red passport
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://repeatingislands.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/passport.jpg?w=500
― toandos, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
the real question is why did i wait so long to renew my passport
― Lamp, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 03:34 (twelve years ago) link
everyone waits so long to renew their passport. you are not alone <3
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 03:47 (twelve years ago) link