When you get a passport is it more difficult if you don't have continuity with the last one? (dim question)

[UnquietDad]

i.e if they don't overlap.

My passport ran out in 2005 and I haven't renewed it yet. Also DD and DS need one. Given that I am applying without a current one, is that going to be more difficult? Or do you just fill in the form the same way? I'm assuming I send off the out-of-date one with the form anyway.

You fill in the same form because you have had a passport even if it ran out a few years ago. I did mine last year when my old one ran out about 4 years before. The only difference was I got my photos signed on the back again because I thought I looked different to the old photo after having put on loads of weight. If you still look very similar you don't have to bother getting them signed. For the kids we both had to put our passport details on the forms and get someone to sign the back of their photos to say they had known us for 3 years, would have been a bit difficult to have known dd3 for 3 years as she was only a few months old!

Thanks!
The signing the back of the photo thing is hilarious. There is never enough room.

They are now extremely fussy about the photographs. I had to go the Passport Agy in SW1 twice because my DD (3 months at the time) was "too purple" and "too squashed against her babygrow" in the third and acceptable photo she looks nothing like herself and there is vomit in her hair. I became so desperate for the passport I just didn't care. I find I have great sympathy now for Mohammed Al Fayed.