Is your passport up to date for your cottage or villa holiday?
Planning on heading overseas in the next few days/weeks for the school holidays? Need to renew your passport? Well it seems trouble might be in the offing for those who’ve left it till the last minute to renew their passport.
The Passport Office’s usual service, which provides holidaymakers the opportunity to obtain a new passport within 1 day for an additional charge will be stopped during a three day strike over office closures and issues with pay at the London passport offices. Normal passport applications will also be halted during this period, meaning that many holiday makers may face the possibility of missing that flight and having to stay at home for the holidays.
The Public and Commercial Services Union has also indicated that the strike will affect the seven regional passport offices (London, Belfast, Liverpool, Glasgow, Newport, Durham and Peterborough) and sixty-eight interview offices throughout the UK.
Has the strike affected you? Leave a comment.
July 23, 2008 at 11:27 am |
I think its a joke how the government system of getting a passport could end up in this state, it is the governments responsibility to ensure we have access to a passport system without problems like this.