{"id":1570,"date":"2008-05-09T12:13:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T12:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2023-06-26T21:23:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T21:23:26","slug":"getting-a-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/getting-a-passport\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting a Passport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Was it really this hard? How to get a passport, my notes,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/renew-adult-passport\/renew\"> this site <\/a>may have been simpler. &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Government and Identity<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The nearest passport agency office is in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<center><br><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps\/ms?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;s=AARTsJpRDUnZd33lrXRcvlrSu4lJYGLESg&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=103078717444100836357.000001126b1b9f06da661&amp;ll=51.496401,-0.140934&amp;spn=0.016031,0.025749&amp;z=14&amp;output=embed\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br><small><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-align: left;\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps\/ms?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=103078717444100836357.000001126b1b9f06da661&amp;ll=51.496401,-0.140934&amp;spn=0.016031,0.025749&amp;z=14&amp;source=embed\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/center>\n\n\n\n<p>They need any current passports, a birth certificate, two proofs of identity\/address, the application form, certified and un-certified picture and the fee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A birth certificate can be applied for online from the <strong>General Register Office<\/strong> if you know all the details, include year of registration. If you don&#8217;t know them then you need to get a GRO index number, this is very tricky since you need to visit a physical copy of the index and it seems the GRO don&#8217;t keep it any more. It might be at Kew and the City of Westminster archive may have a copy. Another place may be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freebmd.org.uk\/cgi\/search.pl\">freebmd<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was it really this hard? How to get a passport, my notes, this site may have been simpler. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21],"tags":[525,522,918,524,523],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-death","tag-government","tag-identity","tag-life-death","tag-passport","tag-reality"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/passports-dfl-cc0-2022-w1020.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8390,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/8390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}