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    New British passport.

    My British passport is now full and I require a new one. I know I can apply from here and fedex it to Hong Kong but thought I might indulge in a few days over there as a little treat for the wife. has anyone any experience of the turn around time for handing it in to the British Embassy there and getting it back ?
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    Actually the British consulate in HK. don't issue passports. You must send your application to HK. They send it on to the UK. who then issue your passport.
    If all your documentation is correct, you will get your new passport in 4 weeks.
    You don't need to send your passport, just a photo copy of your ID page and your Visa page. Just got mine back it took just under four weeks.

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    Jeeze 4 weeks, that gives you poms what the Fvck your tax pounds are doing for you.
    I posted mine to New Zealand and it was returned to my house an about 1 week.

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    It appears that it will have to just get posted then. I just thought that there might have been a country near thailand where i could treat the wife to a few days away and return with a new passport. It is odd as well as if you send the passport to HK and they just send it to the UK why not just get people to send it to the Uk in the first place ? or am I missing something ?
    Ah well it looks like the trip away will have to wait till next month then
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    Take the wife for a holiday big feller, it don't need an excuse.

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    We are off on a SE Asia tour. drive around malaysia then cambodia, laos and vietnam. not to sure whether to include myanmar into it at the moment with all thw troubles they are having just now so may leave that till a later date. if the British Government didn't make it so difficult to simply take your wife to the UK for a holiday I would have flown there to get a new passport but they seem to have an open door, anyone is welcome policy where people can simply arrive, claim asylum and get benefits galore quite easily but try to take your Thai wife there for 3 weeks. A nightmare.

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    Why dont you contact the British Embassy in HK and ask them how long it will take ?
    You can get a UK passport in the UK within 24 hours and HK may offer the same service , best you phone them and find out

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    ^Why do folk never really understand what they are being told but still prefer to believe what they want to believe?

    The answer to all this is regionalisation. HK is the central point for processing and all passports are now issued in the UK. Ireland is the same as indeed are many other countries. It takes a month. If you want to pay more, say £250, then they might offer an express delivery but the process will remain the same and unlikely to take less than a week no matter how one were to cut it.

    Hub and spoke is the future of the streamlined consulate /visa service organised to save costs and maximise profits. A further example is all Indonesian visa applications previously handled by Jakarta are now processed by the Bangkok visa section. All done by papers which actually begs the question, just why the fuck do we pay for a visa section with up to 12 staff receiving handsome allowances etc when they could deal with them just as easily in some shitty little suburban London/Manchester/Croydon/Sheffield/Liverpool ghetto for considerably less?

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