My Uk passport is apparently not valid for travel in the EU after 31 December 2020

[bellinisurge]

I got a text to this effect just now from tbe passport service. I know it's a kosher message because I had a message from the same number about my DD's Uk passport application recently. I apparently need a new passport if I want to go to the EU after 31 December 2020.

Firstly, fuck off you cock wombles because I also have an Irish passport so you can stick it up your Brexity arse.

Secondly, do Brexiteers know they have to buy their way into the EU with a new passport.

Thirdly, see Firstly and fuck off.

Hi @Aposterhasnoname

ThAnk you @bellinisurge

Shit news but thank you all the same 😂

My passport is valid until 2022 too but won't be valid in the EU after next April.

This is a problem because I can't renew it at the moment due to needing it for the French settled status scheme :-/

What are passport office wait times like at the moment?

@Mistigri , I just did my daughter's. Not too bad. Less than a month. Not as easy to track as the Irish passport service but not too bad.

@Mistigri — we're currently on 10 weeks since delivery of my docs to the passport office. This is for an overseas children's renewal.

Thank you bellinsurge for that info.
(Yes, I’m British and can claim Irish citizenship as my parents are Irish).

So your passport didn't expire early at all and you just decided to have a whinge because you voted stay?

Okay then, have a nice day!

Yeah it did expire earlier because of Brexit. And yeah I wanted a whinge.

Bibbity I think it depends if your mum is already on the foreign births register. If she is applying to be put on the register now then it’s too late for you, but if she’s already on it you could apply too.

It’s odd OP

Because your style and approach is actually very “brexit-y”!

"This has been all over the papers for months, and really isn’t difficult to understand.. "

Don't recall anything all over the papers saying "your passport which is still valid for well over a year is not valid in circumstances when you were given a couple of extra months when you renewed your last one ". Maybe I have been distracted with other news.

But I do recall it being made clear that you couldn't join EU fast lanes once the transition period ended. This has apparently come as an almighty shock to the Daily Express.
I guess we are both thick as pig shit.

Jroseforever , if, by that you mean "petty point scoring " then you are probably right. Thing is, I'm not running the country.

No I mean general ignorance and small mindedness

I already love the idea of waving to Brexiteers as I pass them in the queue to enter an EU country

But please, spare a commiserating smile for those of us who are British Europeans, cried over the Brexit result, and also have family (but not parents) in other EU countries.

The next time I land in Düsseldorf or Paris to see close family, I will be in tears, going through the non-EU gate.

* Don't recall anything all over the papers saying "your passport which is still valid for well over a year is not valid in circumstances when you were given a couple of extra months when you renewed your last one ". Maybe I have been distracted with other news. *

Or maybe you were relying on the kind of media that tender over skirt over the facts

@MissMarplesGlove

I already love the idea of waving to Brexiteers as I pass them in the queue to enter an EU country

But please, spare a commiserating smile for those of us who are British Europeans, cried over the Brexit result, and also have family (but not parents) in other EU countries.

The next time I land in Düsseldorf or Paris to see close family, I will be in tears, going through the non-EU gate.

The OP essentially hasn’t considered any nuance to the issue whatsoever

Jroseforever being a broad minded smart arse didn't do me much good. I thought I'd walk a mile in somebody else's shoes.

I dont think it has been all over the news recently. In fact the change to passport validity was sneaked in with no notice in 2018.

www.google.com/amp/s/www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2018/09/passport-applicants-hit-out-after-being-given-shorter-than-expec/amp/

Already said I have in-laws and other family members who can't do this so I can see the "nuance " very well.

Not too bad. Less than a month.

A month is quite bad when you're legally required to have photo ID, but it's an improvement on the 8-9 week waits they were advertising recently. Bit worried that I'll send it in and it'll get caught up in a second covid lockdown.

@bellinisurge

Jroseforever being a broad minded smart arse didn't do me much good. I thought I'd walk a mile in somebody else's shoes.

Makes no sense

@Mistigri , as you are out of the UK (I think) is there a service you can use (no doubt I'm afraid at extra expense) to fast track it once your residence stuff is sorted?

Jroseforever - MN was full of tedious Brexity shit for a long time. People like me were derided as being elitist and The Reason Why We Are Leaving. So I tried the same kind of post.

@bellinisurge

"This has been all over the papers for months, and really isn’t difficult to understand.. "

Don't recall anything all over the papers saying "your passport which is still valid for well over a year is not valid in circumstances when you were given a couple of extra months when you renewed your last one ". Maybe I have been distracted with other news.

But I do recall it being made clear that you couldn't join EU fast lanes once the transition period ended. This has apparently come as an almighty shock to the Daily Express.
I guess we are both thick as pig shit.

Was the thick as pig shit comment directed at me? I don’t read the express, so no shocks to me, especially as I am, and have always been well aware what brexit means, hence voting remain.

Nope Aposterhasnoname not directed at you.