To ask you for help re. emergency child's passport PLEASE!!

[sundowners]

Hi all
In utter turmoil as just discovered DS (5) passport expired in December. We are due to travel 6am Friday to Spain.
Passport website and research seem to indicate the 1 day emergency passport for children no longer applies- just the 6 working day Fastrack?
Has anyone been in similar position and has concrete answers on this please? Could we not drive to one of the passport offices, with DS, shoe them our flight etc and try to beg for a same day passport? is there any hope our holiday wont be ruined? Please....

I would say that unfortunately you would have to go by the passport guidelines.

Is there any chance some of you can travel and one stays behind with the child until you get the passport ?

Sorry to say we had a similar situation with a foster child of ours and unfortunately were unable to get a passport in time. Same day passports are no longer issued for children and no other options are available.

My work colleague told me a similar story today. Same happened to her two weeks ago and they had to delay flights 48 hours (some family went ahead on original booking, and she/child stayed behind to do passport). Costly but only delayed things a couple of days.

Can you see if you can book a passport interview online now so you know which city to head-to?

I had the same problem except I didn’t need it for 3 weeks and when I looked it said only 1 week fast track on children’s passports.
It was only a day trip to France for a year 7 school trip, that made me panic so I can’t imagine how your feeling.

I can’t see them doing same day though if they specify they don’t do it for children’s passports. Hope you get it sorted though

You need to make an appointment normally takes 3-4 days rather than a week if your flight was in 3-4 days time.
Not same day to stop child abductions.

It's a renewal? Phone tomorrow and make an appointment at the passport office.

First child passport cannot be fast tracked as far as I'm aware but a renewal can.

Thanks all, yes its a renewal for an existing passport

I've just seen the rules have changed.

Can you book an appointment for as soon as? Hopefully you get it.

You can make an appointment at one of the passport offices and they will issue an emergence passport. We did it a few years ago once we'd turned the house upside down to find my passport, it costs quite a bit though. Naturally once I'd made the appointment fpr the next day I found it in the box it couldn't possible be in.
Try it and good luck, don't just rock up without an appointment though.

No you can’t for a child.

Kind of stupid, I really feel sorry for you and very much hope you manage to get it sorted but the passports are always checked as soon as we look at booking holidays, it will be an expensive lesson learnt.

You can make an appointment at one of the passport offices and they will issue an emergence passport.
No, that's not possible now.

Sorry but it's not going to happen by Friday. You need to plan a different contingency such as postponing holiday for some or all of you.

Call the passport advice line for the most reliable and up to date info if you're confused by anything you see on gov.uk.

I did this for my son and you can book online but it was for a few days later - the only next day appointment was several 100 miles away. The passport did come back in four days though, not soon enough for you.

That was stupid wasn't it

Helpful Lemon, stating the bloody obvious

Did you manage it?

This happened to us last year. We had to make an appointment in Manchester for the next day (we live near London). It came in 4 days but you have to make sure you bring all the required info with you. My dh and ds stayed at home for 1 extra day and my other 2 dc flew at the original time with me (so only 2 new flights to pay for). Was an expensive mistake. No they won't do same day even if you plead, you need to make an appointment asap and then the passport is sent to you through the post. Sorry

I’m sure the OP has her answer either way now but because I looked to a previous MN thread for advice recently in a similar situation, I’ll post my experience. Doing a final check on a Saturday, six days before flying to Mexico, I realised that my DS’s passport had less than three months remaining. Stupid mistake- I think when I checked the passports on booking flights, I counted three months from that date. Obviously a silly thing to do, but that doesn’t really help anyone who has spent £thousands on a holiday and the realised they have a passport situation. No, the passport office don’t issue over the counter passports or renewals for children at this time. We had to book the soonest possible appointment at a passport office - which was in Glasgow, flipping miles away, get in the car, drive like hell, and book an Airbnb overnight. The other alternative was replacement flights to Mexico for DS and one parent at over £1000. At the passport office first thing Sunday morning. Everyone was super lovely, the fee was £150+ for the most urgent service. TRIPLE CHECK your application before you leave home, including the pictures and the counter signature. The last thing you want is to get all the way to the office and find that it’s not all there. The passport office guarantee the fast track replacement will take less than a week. At that point we had five days, so it was all very nerve wracking. Passport arrived on Tuesday, within 72 hours. All in, counting petrol to Glasgow, Airbnb for the night and the passport fee it was an extremely expensive mistake, but less so than the replacement flights. So if you are in this situation, good luck, hopefully, like us, you’ll be lucky.

Agree with PP - the rules have changed.

Is it just you and DS? If so, can you might need to change flight. If other family members, at least some of you can go ahead and one parent stays with DS until new PP received. Should be about a week. Obviously if you are not going for that long it won't be worth it.