The passport "interview" - what's it like?

[UnquietDad]

DCs will be getting passports for the first time this year. Just wondering what form the "interview" for all new applicants takes.

"So, Master Unquiet, why do you wan to travel abroad?"

"So I can BASH peepul and EXPLODE fings!"

Also, if you have let your passport "lapse" does it count as a new application? (Mine expired in 06 and we didn't go abroad last year so I haven't got round to getting a new form until now).

They don't do interviews for kids.

I was being partly facetious, but I wondered if they might interview us on their behalf. They don't, then?

Can anyone answer the second part of my question?

No they don't, although apparently in future they will interview kids.

I think your passport will be treated as a renewal as you already hold or have held, an adult passport .

Thanks

There's a sketch in that...

They don't always interview. Just some people. They didn't interview me.

I never got interviewed and I am British by naturalisation.

I can't imagine their interviewing someone who is British by right of birth.

I never got interviewed and I am British by naturalisation.

I can't imagine their interviewing someone who is British by right of birth.

The passport office are saying in their latest ads that first-time adult applicats might be called for interview to establish their identity and to allow six weeks for this when applying.

FWIW, I renewed my passport last September and it came back in less than 2 weeks. May have been a fluke though.

This site should answer your second question UQD

I was interviewed expat, and I was born in UK, as were my parents,grandparents etc.
Apparently a computer picks the names out randomly.

Wrt time frame. It took 1 week and 2 days from time of me sending application off, to recieveing passport, including having interview.

Wow, that's quick, cracker. I've heard of it taking three months!

But it's not kids or renewals, is it?

So basically, if you got your passport as a kid and then kept renewing it, you wouldn't get chosen for interview, no?

Just wondering, as my children have British passports that they can never let expire because they always need the ability to travel to the US at short notice in case one of my family falls ill or dies.

I'd hazard a guess with the amount of passports that are processed each year, that it'd impossible to interview renewing applicants in the same way as it'd impracticable to make drivers take their driving test again each year .