Passport fees increase – from September

Travel Advice passports: Passport numbers fall so the price goes up..The decision to increase passport fees follows a decline in passport applications experienced during these difficult economic times.

So our best passport advice is to renew yours now, before the price goes up in September.

In order to reduce the impact on holidaymakers during the high season, the Identity and Passport Service will wait until September 2009 to bring in the passport fees rise.

The IPS and FCO intend to introduce an increase in the price of a ten year adult passport from £72 to £77.50 in the first passport fee rise for passport services in the UK since 2007. There will also be a rise of £3 to the cost of a child’s passport to £49. The increase will take effect from 3 September following final approval by the Privy Council tomorrow (8 July).

This farce is ridiculous: The adult passport will continue to be issued for free to applicants born on or before 2 September 1929. This maintains the Government’s ongoing commitment to those individuals. Which makes them over 80…

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