Help,how do you get a new birth certificate?

[wayneyboy1942]

Someone I know wants to get a passport,they've never had one before and can't find their birth certificate,does anyone know the best and cheapest way to get a new one? While I'm at it,when do the new type of passports come in? :)

[ollie]

if possible they to the register office where they were born, if they were born a long way from where they are living now the registar will order them one, dont know about the passport thing mine is eight years old so not renewed for a while

[wayneyboy1942]

Thanks Ollie I'll pass that on! as for the new passports, mine runs out in a few months, but if they come in after I get a new one will I have to change it for one of them?

[Jason]

http://www.ukpa.gov.uk/index.asp

This will give you all the information you require
Regards
Jason

[wayneyboy1942]

Thanks Jason!

[Mattylad]

£42!
To renew them, and £25 for the kids?

WTF are they doing to warrant that cost?
Jeesus, for my family that would put £159 onto the cost of a holiday straight away...

Pathetic..

[wayneyboy1942]

Matty they recon when the new passports come in they could cost £80 each! but will be nicer! :)

[Mattylad]

I dont give a stuff if they are nicer, how the heck could they justify that sort of cost?

[Mattylad]

PS, maybe the cheapest option is "down the pub" :D

[Jason]

The cost going up will still make your photo look like crap!!

lol

[snowy]

Thanks Jason,for the web site for the passport office. Although I have dual citizenship (English & Canadian) I have always renewed my British passport and never bothered with a Canadian one which is more expensive and has to be renewed every 5 years.Mine is due for renewal in November. I send the forms and old passports to the British Embassy over here and the new ones are usually back in about 10 days.

[Digsyboy]

bleedin ada
£42
Takes the wee wee don't you think

[grannyclaret]

and another thing is that they have to have at least 6 months left on them before you go away even if it,s only for a week