Why are so many people renewing their passport now, asks man seemingly oblivious to fact the world was locked down for two years
Why are so many people renewing their passport now, asks man seemingly oblivious to fact the world was locked down for two years
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I know this is satire but he probably is oblivious, its not like lockdown or any of the knock on affects of it had any impact on his life.
Down votes are flooding in because…
I will take it that it be the fools who feel more at home on the useful idiots farm that be brigading.
Well he’s been able to travel anywhere he wanted still, so I can see how he’d forget /s
Of course he was oblivious because he was not locked down but attending parties, sorry work events.
’twas ten years ago that I last renewed my passport, it’ll be another eleven before its next due
Not just lockdown, but the extra demand caused by people travelling to Europe who are needing to renew their passport months earlier than they would have needed to previously.
He knows why. He is just desperate to privatise something and the passport office has drawn the short straw.
It depends, not everyone thinks of a passport as just a travel document. For a lot I’d imagine it’s their main source of identity. I can see how if there’s a mass of people who only use their passport for travel who haven’t travelled over the last 2 years and their passport has expired there could be a backlog. I know me personally I renew mine as soon as it expires but there are some who only renew it if they’re going away, which is probably what’s happening here.
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I’d recommend always having a passport though and surely you would know that at some point travel would open up again? Last minute stuff with passports isn’t a good thing, when I was 18 had to get a fast track appointment and even then I remember the whole will it/won’t it fiasco. Best avoided by prior planning and preparation, with that said I’ve been waiting since Sept last year for something from .gov haha! All those workers at home pretending to answer calls and emails.
Also, for the whole of lockdown if you went on the website it basically told you NOT to renew unless it was absolutely necessary. I went past that and did it anyway, and got mine back within a week….but most people probably waited and now its a shithow.
Don’t book a holiday then check your passport expiry, especially after a 2 year lockdown.
It’s those pesky government workers slacking off at home again.
On a semi connected note, been hearing the complaints from older relatives about having to apply for a visa to go to their French homes for the first time.
Literally the same person I desperately tried to convince back in 2016 that free movement was actually pretty good for them. They ended up voting for brexit as “we could go on holiday before we were in the EU and they need our tourist money, they won’t touch us”
Apparently the visa centre was full of older people all complaining about the process…
Mine actually falls due to renew now, covid or no covid so that’s fun. Blasted coincidence.