Stupid passport form

[jimmyhorns]

Ok, so not in my goodbooks today....

UK passport services / check and send.

Trying to get my sons passport done for our holiday. He is 22 months old.

1st form, the down stroke of a 4 finishes out of the box by about 1mm - rejected.

2nd form, rejected as a mistake was crossed out, which is fine, unless when you cross out it goes outside of a box (the bit between the boxes).


OMFG, how can you be this pedantic about the form, and why say cross out if you dont mean it..


Yours, one very f'd off UK 'citizen'

[RcRotaryMadness]

Yeah hate it when things are like that... ooo you didnt use the right shade of black ink - rejected!
Whos doing the rejecting, post office or passport people themselves?
If post office i would try another one.. if passport people then you got to do it again lol.

[jimmyhorns]

Well its 'Check and Send' at the post office, but I did call the passport office, to be given the same generic, "no that wouldnt possibly do".

No one has an answer for why a line cant be 'outside of the box' other than that the computer cant scan it. Which begs the question, if it cant scan outside of the box, wtf does it matter if there is a tiny mark outside of the box?...

Its a double edged sword. We havent got masses of time before we need the passport for him, if we use check and send it shouldnt be longer than 3 weeks, if we dont, its 4 weeks + which is cutting it a bit too fine. If we dont get it 'perfect' they wont sent it check and send.

[dszabo]

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Did my sons online, the form gets printed and posted to you with all of your info on it, sign add pics send back. Was simple and no going out the boxes. :)

[danch]

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Why not complete the form online & they print it & post it to you for signing/pictures, just had to renew 3 passports myself & it's a ballache

[jimmyhorns]

It said expect to wait 2 weeks for them to send it out to you, which is time we dont have, though agree, this would have been the most straightforward way :)

[danch]

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[QUOTE=jimmyhorns;1045227]It said expect to wait 2 weeks for them to send it out to you, which is time we dont have, though agree, this would have been the most straightforward way :)[/QUOTE]

Ahh I see, mine took 4 days but even agter checking them over I forgot to send the old passports....doh :banghead:

[jimmyhorns]

Back in the good old days, when I was less than two, I seem to remember me being on my parents passport anyways...

[danch]

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[QUOTE=jimmyhorns;1045230]Back in the good old days, when I was less than two, I seem to remember me being on my parents passport anyways...[/QUOTE]

True, wasn't it until you were 16 ? Then you got your own

[PorscheBoy]

RTFI........lol

[jimmyhorns]

[QUOTE=PorscheBoy;1045234]RTFI........lol[/QUOTE]

Thank Paul... I did.

"I've made a mistake on the form, what should I do?"

"Cross out any mistakes. Do not use correction fluid"


When they say cross out, what they really mean is 'blank out', not what I and a lot of people assume crossing out would be (putting a line through).

[PorscheBoy]

Not sure where you are off to, but if it is the States DO NOT make ANY mistakes on the green waiver form, you will be sent to the back of the queues with a blank one to fill in by US customs. Try and get the form off the aircrew and fill it in early on the flight whilst you're still half awake ( and keep your letters inside the little boxes....,).

[RcRotaryMadness]

On my flight home from greece in the book it was saying about not making any mistakes on forms going to the US else it will have be done again. Seem they like being picky.

[PorscheBoy]

[QUOTE=RcRotaryMadness;1045248]On my flight home from greece in the book it was saying about not making any mistakes on forms going to the US else it will have be done again. Seem they like being picky.[/QUOTE]
No, US customs has always been picky re the green waiver form, I have been going to the States for over 20 yrs and have seen numerous families sent to the back of maybe 1000 holidaymakers (3-4 jumbo jets into Orlando, Atlanta etc), and that puts 2hrs on your arrival time.

[discoferret]

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And you pull babies out for a living but can't fill out a passport application form correctly lol ;-)