to be annoyed about passport fees

[Madsometimes]

My passport is in my maiden name and has years left to run on it. I mostly use my married name now, so my dh has booked me airline tickets for this summer in my married name. Obviously I will need to change my passport or I will not be let on the plane.

I find now that I have to cancel my current passport and buy a new 10 year passport for £72. I may get upto 9 months extra on my new passport for time remaining on my previous passport, but that's my lot. I think this is rip of Britain aimed at married (& divorced?) women. Rant over

oh don't get me started on this one.

Earlier this year I got dd2's passport for our holiday.

due to an extraordinary change in the system, the passport computer system and the birth registration computer system are not actually compatible, meaning that dd2's passport bears a name which is not her name.

It is not the name we called her, nor is it the name which appears on the birth register as her first name, but it is the only name that the passport office will consider putting as her name. It is, in fact her title.

we are about to start fighting to get it changed, but even if we do get anywhere with that, we have been told that any fees are payable by us (not by any part of the system which has cocked up so badly...)

So, one pasport fee wasted (passport only a few months old), and god knows how much interms of time wasted on calls, letters etc before we get pay for another passport...

there's five of us - that's a lot of money for passports!

My passport is still in my maiden name as I still had 8 years left to run when I got married. I have travelled in my maiden name ever since and will ony change once passport is up for renewal (it's the same cost anyway!!)

If your holiday is booked in your married name and your passport is in your maiden name, can you not just take your marriage certificate? (sorry if I'm being dim - I'm sure someone said you can). I don't want to renew mine either with 6 years left to run on it.

I bought my five year old his new passport at a cost of £80ish and now having lost it have just apid another £94ish.... hooray!!

I have never changed mine eiterh as there awas always a holiday booked in it., so have just stuck with it.
The passport prices presumably have to cover the cost of all the systems around them, and all the FO etc assistnace people seem to get when they get inot trouble abroad ( not suggsting you would!!) - someone has to pay, so is only fair it is those who travel, rahter than taxing more those who don't ever leave the UK.

Think yourself lucky, DH has just had his passport renewed at the British Embassy here, at the cost of almost £200. Ouch.

Is that for the 48 page as that's £145 I think, here.