FCO moves forward with changes to birth and death registration overseas

Monday, December 22nd 2014 - 22:06 UTC

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ChrisR
This is nothing to do with 'improving' the service, simple cost cutting.

It has been this way with passports for quite a time and has proved to be a mistake as far as passport holders are concerned.

Uruguay has recently remade the post service (Correo) and at least post is arriving to us now but it wouls be highly foolish to trust them with legal documents of any nature.

Even the Uruguayan Embassy in London will not use Correo and continues with DHL (Drop it, Hide it and Lose it) which starts at £65 for a small envelope.

Way to go FCO, NOT.
Dec 23rd, 2014 - 09:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Jack Bauer
I tried to renew my passport about 6 months ago....after all the demands, most of them senseless, plus the fragility of the Postal systems, I just gave up. Will just use the other ones......10 years ago it was relatively quick and easy. Now what I don't understand, is that if you are a British passport holder , why does the FCO require all your info, AGAIN ?? Wouldn't it suffice to fill in a simpe form, pay the fee and send in your old passport with a recent photo ?
Dec 24th, 2014 - 03:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
@ 2 Jack Bauer

Don't be daft!

That would be far too simple and wouldn't make work for all the millions of tit-suckers we have now.

My best UK friend's 21 YO son had to travel from SoT to Derby to have an interview to PROVE he was English and therefore British before he could be issued with a passport. The interview was conducted by a fucking Asian who could hardly speak the language.

That is what the UK have conme to under The Cunt Brown © Jeremy Clarkson 2010.
Dec 24th, 2014 - 07:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Jack Bauer
@3 ChrisR
you're right..why simplify things if you can complicate them ?

As to the 'saga' of your friend's son, have heard similar accounts from my friends here.
Dec 25th, 2014 - 09:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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