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The cost of a passport is just stupid

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SoloTripSoloVibes · 27/11/2025 09:14

That’s it really.

£94.50 for the actual passport, which is alright, I suppose.

£10 for the pictures because you need the fancy digital codes now and can’t just have a picture

£10 for guaranteed postage of the old one back to them, because of course they can’t just have a database that they update to say that one has expired or been replaced.

£115 in total! Bring on the days that it becomes totally digital.

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Ineffable23 · 27/11/2025 09:29

SoloTripSoloVibes · 27/11/2025 09:26

It’s just ludicrously overpriced. For such a small document. It’s a book.

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It's also your freedom to travel the world for the next decade. With a chip, and enough features to stop it being forgeable.

Unless something has changed I don't think you have to pay for photos do you? I just got someone to take some on my phone against a white wall.

ItsInTheSingingOfAStreetCornerChoir · 27/11/2025 09:29

£94.50 for passport

£0.00 digital photo taken at home
£1.70 first class post to return old passport

don’t know why you paid extra.

Frynye · 27/11/2025 09:28

Also you can do it online. Much quicker and you can upload your own picture. It lasts ten years and is valuable id.

Simonjt · 27/11/2025 09:27

I took a photo on my phone for free, I also completed the forms on my phone, again, for free.

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SoloTripSoloVibes · 27/11/2025 09:26

InveterateWineDrinker · 27/11/2025 09:24

For the last passport I had renewed I got someone to take pictures with my phone and upload them.

I wanted the old one posted back to me because it contains visas which are still valid.

It also contains records of which country I was in on particular days and for how long. After Windrush and then more recently the child benefit "our records show you emigrated" thing I'm not going to trust the government to keep records of where I was.

All these things carry costs and it is absolutely right that users pay them, rather than have it spread across all taxpayers.

It’s just ludicrously overpriced. For such a small document. It’s a book.

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LoveWine123 · 27/11/2025 09:25

You don’t have to pay for pictures, you can do them yourself.

InveterateWineDrinker · 27/11/2025 09:24

For the last passport I had renewed I got someone to take pictures with my phone and upload them.

I wanted the old one posted back to me because it contains visas which are still valid.

It also contains records of which country I was in on particular days and for how long. After Windrush and then more recently the child benefit "our records show you emigrated" thing I'm not going to trust the government to keep records of where I was.

All these things carry costs and it is absolutely right that users pay them, rather than have it spread across all taxpayers.

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