So how do you go about getting a passport really really fast when you realise you have been a feckless twat and just not bothered to sort it out?

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For DD (aged 1)

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Can I just say how refreshing it is to see someone (else) admit to their inadequacies. This is the sort of thing that I do too!

Passport office, and I think they charge you extra

Passport office - although DDs took 2 weeks via the normal route - depends how much of a rush you are in!

Don't worry they won't interview her

Yes, PP ffice - where do you live? There are PO in Peterborough, Newport and L'pool AFAIK, there must be others. Make sure you get her photos signed - I adviose taking them on a digital camera and printing them with a really good printer and taking LOADS of pictures and getting them all signed because then you will have less chnace of having them refused. If you haven't got a photo printer, get them done professionally asap - it's not too expensive expensive. Don;t even think about getting the photo done at a booth (voice of bitter experience)

Fuckety fuck, it looks like I have to do the 2 week check and send which is an extra £46

BTW, to take the photos of DS1 and 2, I sat them on the settee with a white sheet draped over it. Those got accepted no probs.

London, Liverpool, Peterborough, Glasgow, Newport, Belfast and Durham

I've got the photos already, I had them done at snappy snaps. That was the fun bit!lol

I've just been too damn lazy to sort out the forms.

I got the boy's passports this time last year, and they were back in just over a week (I did the cheapest thingy - mainly because I had 3 to get - 150 quid, robbing bastards)

When ddo you need the,m by?

I took did the one week Fast Track service (£81) for dd and it was a pain but worth it.

We are going away early may (hopefully)

I will be in sooooo much trouble if I can't sort it out. It is a wedding.

Read the guidance on the photos very carefully -- especially the minimum and maximum mm allowed between crown of head and chin

Do you have a responsible member of the public who has also known your dd from birth lined up to sign?

Or will you kidnap a nice young solicitor off the street?

The usual route will be fine, just triple check the paperwork before you send it all off.

ah, yes, Snappy Snaps sorted us out too. After I had failed on millimetre count.

I'm going to get it signed by our G.P (another fecking cost)

Well I say I'm going to but when I get actually round to it is a whole different matter.

Snappy snaps were very good, they took loads of different ones, and told me the one where she looks very serious (and a tad miserable) would be best.

Same here. Both mine look like they've recently been abandoned

Still, their heads are the right size for Mr Paper-clip Fondler in Passport Office.

it doesn';t need to be a GP / techer / minister etc signing the pics any more - the list is reaqlly long
here
so long as they've known you and dd for 2 years and aren;'t family

tbh I am not on the list ad have successfully signed lots of mates' kids' forms

That's quite a random list, isn't it? Professional photographer? Not that I have anything against them but ...

journalist?

It is an odd list.

Do they think those jobs are somehow more worthy than any others?