If you're over 16 and not yet got a 10 year adult passport, then you should apply for one BEFORE APRIL 2007.
On March 26 2006, the Identity and Passport Service opens some new offices as part of the build up to the ID card scheme that the Government wants to introduce. By the end of the year there will be 69 of these interrogation centres. People applying for their 1st adult passport from April 2007 will the guinea-pigs for a process the government is calling "Authentication by Interview".
You'll be called in to your nearest interrogation centre, fingerprinted + photographed and put through an "intrusive interview" (the Government's own words) to check that you can give answers about private details of your life that agree with the official ones.
The Government estimates that 1 in 4 people who apply under this new procedure will have to cancel their trip because they don't get their passport in time.
Maybe you should think about getting your passport now?
2007-02-17 23:38:05 · 4 answers · asked by Cardinal Fang 5 in Travel ➔ Travel (General) ➔ Packing & Preparation
http://www.renewforfreedom.org
2007-02-17 23:38:20 · update #1
You can apply for renewal of a passport up to 9 months before the expiry date and the new 10 year period will start from the original expiry date
Apply in plenty of time
2007-02-19 21:50:42 · answer #1 · answered by trumps 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, yes you should. I renewed mine and it now has a RFID chip in it (which allows anyone with a chip reader to get all my info as I walk past).
Finger prints, DNA, retinal scans & more to come!!
I think the risk with DNA is they will start to look for criminal patterns, your DNA may flag up a warning, guilty until proven innocent.
All gearing up for ID cards ( hefty penalites/imprisonment) if you refuse)
One of the main selling points of ID cards is that they will help stop terrorism but the 9/11, 7/7 & madrid bombers all used their own identity.
2007-02-20 18:41:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh my God! Thank you, I have all the forms but haven't done anything about it - I love you right now x
(do you ever get the feeling the government really don't like us?)
2007-02-18 07:49:56 · answer #3 · answered by floppity 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
and we all thought big brother was just a tv show. Police state here we come
2007-02-26 03:35:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋