new blue passports?

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To not be convinced over new blue passports in 2019? I get why they are doing it to show we are not part of the EU etc. But, will we have to pay for them? At £70 a pop, likely to be a very nice revenue earner for the government. Does anyone know if we will need to pay for them or will they get swapped like for like?

You’ll get one when your old one expires. That’s all.

You'll have to pay for them.

They will be fazed out gradually.

I don't think you'll need to worry about it until you actually have to renew.

That's what happened last time anyway. Lots of people still had old style blue/black covers while people with newer passports had burgundy ones.

When your passport is due for renewal, the new one will be blue.

I presume that you will just get the new kind when your old one runs out - they wouldn't make the whole country renew their passports simultaneously.

My current passport expires next month, so I will get a new EU one, and I hope that by the time I need to renew it again we will be back in the EU (or will never actually have left).

You’ll just get a new version when yours expires I should think - the system will crash if they try to reissue new ones for everybody at once!

They are being phased in so it'll just be the same as renewing them. And we already pay £72 for them, it won't be any different.

Ah phew. Yes that makes sense to phase them in gradually.

They used to be blue covers before.

And I'd imagine when your passport expires your new one will be blue.

Pretty sure my old passports were black, not blue.

Pantah630 Yep, they were a very dark blue.

Apparently we could have had blue all the time if we had wanted as burgundy was not obligatory.

Didn't think I was imaging it, I've still got it filed somewhere.

Pantah630 I have dug out some old passports, the newest ones from the 90s are a very dark blue, older ones are black. This could just be ageing, though.

My passport expires in Spring 2019. AIBU in foregoing a Summer holiday that year so I can apply for a lovely blue passport in the October? I should hate to be one of the last people to still have a burgundy one.

Mine's due for renewal in April. I'm glad I'll retain my European one for many years to come. Was wondering if it will make any difference when we go through Passport Control in other European countries if i still have the European one instead of a British one?