Recently I’ve been going through the process of filling in an application form to get a passport. I was previously on my Mum’s, a few years ago, but haven’t needed a passport since. I need one now to visit Meeka in Ireland, and generally to prove that I am 18. Unfortunately, the damn English government clearly don’t want British citizens leaving the country. The English passport is one of the most expensive passports to get in the world, coming in at £66 (before any other fees such as the checking service, fast tracking, etc.). The price of it has actually increased by 57% over the past three years “to fund new high-security”, or some bullshit like that.
Anyway, after going to the dentist today, I went to the post office to send my passport off (which I had signed and everything). The man checked through it (and marvelled at my strange faces because I couldn’t feel the left side of my mouth, which is a somewhat perculiar sensation), and basically said that my Mum’s passport which I had included (which the passport form said to do because I was on that passport) was “untaxed” and therefore I shouldn’t send it off. He also said that I needed to fill in my parents’ details and include my long birth certificate.
Y’know, if they just got someone like myself to write out some simple instructions for how to fill in a passport, then it’d be so much easier for other people who are being abused by this system to get them. It is far too complicated, and the forms which give you information are far from legible. Maybe if I do it I’ll get a lot more traffic and get a lot more readers on my blog…
So, basically, I’m going to have to get in contact with the passport.gov.uk support line and ask them what I actually do need to fill in, and what I don’t. Then I’ll fill in what I need to fill in, or pick up another passport form on Friday when I go to the dentist again, and hopefully get it all right this time. This year would be so ruined, really, if I didn’t get my passport and didn’t get to go to Ireland soon.
I’ll feel so much more at ease once I have it, and it’s sitting on my desk, nice and safe.
Ick. I’m scared of the dentist.
Not being able to feel your mouth is definetely not the funnest feeling in the world, especially if you’re trying to call your Mom to come pick you up from the dentist after 2 fillings….sounds like “Mah cah oo coh en pih me uh” because I can’t feel my tongue >.> lol
Damn the passport people. Um, bop them and when they aren’t looking quick hop on a flight to Ireland. I’m sure they’ll never notice you. Maybe you can fit in one of those little shelf thingies that are above the passengers! :)
This would be so much easier if I could visit you first, I have my passport lying around somewhere.
But, my parents will want to meet you, and stuff.. yeah. I’m sure you can figure it all out, anyways, clever boy. xx
It’s not a matter of being clever. If it were, I’d have had one weeks ago.
Always have to have the last word? ;p
*Whatever word that would have been more apt than clever.
There! All fixed. xx
That doesn’t make sense! I told you that you should go and lie down.