UK passport online-premium-service

[anothernotherone]

Has anyone used the online premium service to renew a passport during a visit to London while living overseas? Is it a practical option during a short trip - say a 3 day midweek stay?

It took about 6 months start to finish
Wow! 4 years here.

I'm going to Peterborough tomorrow to do this very thing. I'll let you know how it goes. Over for a couple of weeks from France. Doing the kids too. The form only seems to be available from the post office and then asks for your uk address so I've left it blank for the moment.

Also for the kids the upstanding member of the community also has to be a uk citizen with a passport.

You only send your il passport. Not other nationality ones.

il=uk

I don't know if this helps but DD just turned 16 and we renewed her expired UK passport online from the US and got her an adult passport. We just took her photo against a white wall and uploaded it. No need for countersigning. We sent photocopies of all the pages in her US passport, and also sent her expired UK PP.

A few years ago we did have to have a photo countersigned - can't remember why - and an American friend did it and just gave us photocopies of the relevant pages of her US passport.

Went today. Had to put a UK address and phone no on the form. I'd got the kids photos countersigned and it all went well. Still a bit worried about their computer program (or whatever) rejecting photos as they were done by a photographer in France. They're on our French passports but might not be miserable enough for UK.

Ours is just for renewal so in theory it's straightforward.

University in the UK will require 2 years residency in the UK to count as a home student, otherwise you'll be paying overseas student rates.

Who knows what Brexit will bring, but at the moment Scottish Universities treat EU students (with exceptions, see below) as home students.

The Students Award Agency for Scotland (SAAS) pays tuition fees to the University for eligible Scottish domiciled and EU students (except those in England, Wales or Northern Ireland). You must apply for payment of your fees to SAAS before the start of each year of your programme of study.

Sorry finally I have no idea why I wrote UK when I meant England (was talking about A-levels in England): I did know that about Scotland as I asked on here a while back and looked it up but did read recently that Brexit may change things...do you work in higher ed?
I ask because if it is residency based, would Scotland under current legislation accept my DD as an EU student if she has lived in Germany for 14 years by the time she applies but still has British citizenship not German? She is also eligible for an Irish passport but I have left it too late for her to get dual German/English citizenship.
She's going to be stuck between a rock and a hard place.
nother will my eldest be eligible for free uni in Germany if she has been ordinarily resident there and not moved back and her father still pays German taxes - even if both only have British/Irish citizenship?
Or will she be counted as an overseas student?
Thanks in advance to both of you x

Hi Rage (no probs. you are by no means the only person using England and UK interchangeably )

I used to be on top of this but my info is now out of date , so I would encourage you to ask the Uni directly. It's a fairly standard question, which will most likely be included in FAQ

I'm surprised that you feel it is too late to apply for dual UK/DE citizenship. It may be different in different Laender, my current experience (people in Muenchen and Hamburg) and for adults, but I gather so long as the application has been submitted, even though some documentation may be 'to follow' the application will be honoured in Germany.

Would be glad to know if you have been told differently.

If all fails, an Irish passport may well be your get out of jail free card.

RageAgainstTheVendingMachine state university is free for foreign students too, so it really doesn't matter. The most she'll have to do is prove her German ability is C1 which would be an irritating hoop to jump through but no big deal.

Thanks both. I thought it was nother but met someone the other day very briefly complaining how uni here being free was a myth and how much they were paying to support their dc - maybe they meant general upkeep/Studentenwohnheim/materials as opposed to tuition fees.
Could DD who is 17 apply for citizenship herself?
finally I think applications submitted before March of this year would be honoured for dual, not sure about any after - I am coming back to the UK is the thing, DD is staying. I could book her her language test and citizenship test regardless I guess, she should pass the C1 part nother, her German is better than mine. and I had a degree but we don't mention that as I realised very quickly we learn languages very differently in England