Hi Folks
I am trying to renew my passport online, I have taken photo on my phone, so how do I upload it onto Government website.
help required please.
Many thanks
Thomas
Photo for passport renewal
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Spud50
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Re: Photo for passport renewal
I have just done this. My phone and camera photos weren’t good enough. I went to Yucel photographers and they took photo and loaded onto a memory stick for me. They also said they could email it to me. Cost was 35tl. Once it is on your computer/laptop just follow the instructions on the website.
The photographer I used is easy to find. Drive down the high street in Girne and up the other side. Yucel is on the right.
The photographer I used is easy to find. Drive down the high street in Girne and up the other side. Yucel is on the right.
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johnny1
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Re: Photo for passport renewal
what about signature? how can you sign if you are applying online?
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Re: Photo for passport renewal
When I did mine there was a form to print off and sign, after filling the online application, which had to be sent to the Passport office. I sent my photos and the old passport with the form as directed online.
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You need to send back your old passport before they will process your new one. I filled in the online form, loaded the photo which I had had taken at Yucel. Once this was completed, I sent my old passport back. Fortunately friends were going to uk so they took it and posted it there for me. When the old passport arrived at the Passport Office, they emailed to say it had arrived and would process the new one. The new one was sent to our address in uk. Friends are bringing my new passport back. When you apply on line, you agree to sign it on receipt.
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Mine was couriered back to me, as was the old one, and both arrived within a couple of days of leaving the passport office. Everything trackable online.
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Re: Photo for passport renewal
The courier service requires an additional paymant. My cost was £75 but I have relied on friends to take old passport to uk to post and to bring new one back.
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Yes friends took mine back to the Uk as the courier service from here was, in my view, extortionate, but the courier coming back was quite reasonable and I didn't want to be without a passport for too long so I opted for that.
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Re: Photo for passport renewal
If you are contemplating renewing your passport by post using a Courier, you may be interested in my recent experience.
Click http://www.gov.uk/apply-renew-passport Click 'Start Now' / 'Are you applying from the UK? / answer 'No', and enter Turkey as your country and, when asked, your TRNC home address. Continue to answer all the questions (using the details in your expiring passport]. Eventually you will be asked to pay by Card (I paid £211.72 for 2 passports).
A short time later you get an email from the Passport Office giving you a username and transaction reference. Using this info, log onto the link provided in the email and fill in the form/s, which you download, print and sign (and send by courier to the Passport Office); this is all straightforward. You are asked for 2 pieces of ID selected from those listed on the form - I used a copy of both sides of my TRNC Driving Licence, handy because it has my photograph and my TRNC home address, and I also sent a copy of my UK Medical Card.
You need 2 regulation photos for each passport - I got mine from the photographer near the Main Girne Car Park. The quality of the photos was obviously acceptable, BUT, although they were cut, they were not cut to the correct size as required in the 'Guide to Filling in the Application' (a friend had hers rejected because they were not the correct size, so check yours carefully and ensure that they conform).
Get an A5 envelope for each passport and address them in accordance with the Instructions, then take everything to the Dagli Sigorta Insurance office in Karaoglanoglu, but do not seal the envelopes. The girls here are very helpful, but are unable to assist in filling in the forms. They will give you a 'covering letter' on their headed notepaper for each passport, which asks the passport office to return the passports (new and old) to the Dagli office rather than your home address (which could be difficult to locate here in the TRNC). They sign the letter and you are asked to countersign. Put everything into the respective envelopes and seal them. Now pay them the Courier fee of 50 Euros for both passports. That's the first stage complete!
When the DHL Courier collects the packages from the Dagli office he will issue a Waybill No for each package. Ask the girls to notify you of these Numbers as it is the only means of tracking the package from collection to delivery. Thereafter you log into http://www.dhl.com and insert the Waybill Numbers into the Tracking Box and you will see exactly where your packages are. UNFORTUNATELY, we sent ours just before Byram! The packages sat in an office in Turkey for 5 days until Byram was over and were then delivered to the Liverpool Passport office within a couple of days. UNFORTUNATELY it was Bank Holiday Weekend in the UK! After about a week we were contacted by DHL, advised that our packages were on route to us, and given new Waybill Numbers, one each for our new passports and one each for our old passports. Now it is just a question of tracking them. UNFORTUNATELY, our 4 packages somehow ended up in Larnaca 'Awaiting collection as agreed'! FORTUNATELY there is an email address for DHL on their website and I contacted their London office explaining my position. I got a speedy response from Chris in the office, who assured me that he would sort it out. The packages were duly routed back to the UK and 2 days later I was given 4 new Waybill numbers which, when tracked, showed that they were on their way to Istanbul/Ercan. The packages arrived at the Dagli office 3 or 4 days later and we arranged collection. Mission accomplished and all in about 4 weeks, start to finish. Thank you Chris of DHL and the Girls in the Dagli office.
Would I use this system again? Yes I would, despite my bad luck with timings and Larnaca! The Tracking System is very efficient, and when I needed assistance, DHL were quick to provide it, so I never felt that my packages were at risk at any stage. i did wonder how my packages could end up in Larnaca as they were addressed to Mersin 10, Turkey. I suspected mischief by a DHL employee in the UK (not pointing the finger at any nationality in particular) and appraised Chris of my suspicions and he agreed to look into it.
Click http://www.gov.uk/apply-renew-passport Click 'Start Now' / 'Are you applying from the UK? / answer 'No', and enter Turkey as your country and, when asked, your TRNC home address. Continue to answer all the questions (using the details in your expiring passport]. Eventually you will be asked to pay by Card (I paid £211.72 for 2 passports).
A short time later you get an email from the Passport Office giving you a username and transaction reference. Using this info, log onto the link provided in the email and fill in the form/s, which you download, print and sign (and send by courier to the Passport Office); this is all straightforward. You are asked for 2 pieces of ID selected from those listed on the form - I used a copy of both sides of my TRNC Driving Licence, handy because it has my photograph and my TRNC home address, and I also sent a copy of my UK Medical Card.
You need 2 regulation photos for each passport - I got mine from the photographer near the Main Girne Car Park. The quality of the photos was obviously acceptable, BUT, although they were cut, they were not cut to the correct size as required in the 'Guide to Filling in the Application' (a friend had hers rejected because they were not the correct size, so check yours carefully and ensure that they conform).
Get an A5 envelope for each passport and address them in accordance with the Instructions, then take everything to the Dagli Sigorta Insurance office in Karaoglanoglu, but do not seal the envelopes. The girls here are very helpful, but are unable to assist in filling in the forms. They will give you a 'covering letter' on their headed notepaper for each passport, which asks the passport office to return the passports (new and old) to the Dagli office rather than your home address (which could be difficult to locate here in the TRNC). They sign the letter and you are asked to countersign. Put everything into the respective envelopes and seal them. Now pay them the Courier fee of 50 Euros for both passports. That's the first stage complete!
When the DHL Courier collects the packages from the Dagli office he will issue a Waybill No for each package. Ask the girls to notify you of these Numbers as it is the only means of tracking the package from collection to delivery. Thereafter you log into http://www.dhl.com and insert the Waybill Numbers into the Tracking Box and you will see exactly where your packages are. UNFORTUNATELY, we sent ours just before Byram! The packages sat in an office in Turkey for 5 days until Byram was over and were then delivered to the Liverpool Passport office within a couple of days. UNFORTUNATELY it was Bank Holiday Weekend in the UK! After about a week we were contacted by DHL, advised that our packages were on route to us, and given new Waybill Numbers, one each for our new passports and one each for our old passports. Now it is just a question of tracking them. UNFORTUNATELY, our 4 packages somehow ended up in Larnaca 'Awaiting collection as agreed'! FORTUNATELY there is an email address for DHL on their website and I contacted their London office explaining my position. I got a speedy response from Chris in the office, who assured me that he would sort it out. The packages were duly routed back to the UK and 2 days later I was given 4 new Waybill numbers which, when tracked, showed that they were on their way to Istanbul/Ercan. The packages arrived at the Dagli office 3 or 4 days later and we arranged collection. Mission accomplished and all in about 4 weeks, start to finish. Thank you Chris of DHL and the Girls in the Dagli office.
Would I use this system again? Yes I would, despite my bad luck with timings and Larnaca! The Tracking System is very efficient, and when I needed assistance, DHL were quick to provide it, so I never felt that my packages were at risk at any stage. i did wonder how my packages could end up in Larnaca as they were addressed to Mersin 10, Turkey. I suspected mischief by a DHL employee in the UK (not pointing the finger at any nationality in particular) and appraised Chris of my suspicions and he agreed to look into it.
