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?
2007-03-03
04:45:45
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2007-03-03
04:45:59 ·
update #1