Surely the point being made is not that Guiana and Zimbabwe are members of the EU (which plainly they are not) but that ancestry might allow Mr W to qualify for a passport that is other than British if he wishes to dissociate himself from the UK? I am not recommending this, merely observing.
I was amazed how quickly I got an EHIC card.
You can, and I did for both myself and a few days later, take your own photo and even with a smartphone, though I used a DSLR. Upload and get a tick mark saying it's likely to pass their checks.
Tip - you'll probably save a day or two by sending the old passport back via the Post Office guaranteed recorded delivery.
Good to know, thanks. Our lad's passport will need replacing later in the year.
I just put it in the post. Fortunately, I've never had anything go missing. My own method of getting things delivered is to write an address very clearly, and in capital letters. I know empirically that this makes a difference, because my missus (who has no idea that her handwriting is actually awful) routinely has problems with offical forms and deliveries.
French Guiana actually is a part of the EU!
~Are they going to use some sort of invisible ink that uses a date for becoming invisible.
My passport expires in june this year, I'll, keep an eye on this ;-)
So it is. That surprises me!
Because these are uncertain times. We don't know how the brexit shambles is going to play out but if we end up with the likes of Boris and J Hunt in charge of international relations wanting to demonstrate our new 'independence' and show off the two stupid new aircraft carriers without the restraining influence of Europe or Nato (Trump, remember) the UK could become a pariah state in no time at all. At that point you will be wishing you had a passport from Uzbekistan or Burkino Faso, anywhere at all as long as you can pretend not to be British as you go through immigration. TW
PS there were/are three Guyanas/Guianas, Dutch, British and French now Surinam, Guyana and French Guiana, not to be confused with Guinea, or New Guinea either.
Greenland used to be. The EU lost a third of its territory when someone decided that was silly.
Are you going to live in one of these weird countries?
I've never understood those things (or the E111 that there used to be). They give you /some/ cover if you are ill abroad, but we are/were advised to get health insurance as well. How do we know we're only getting coverage for what the form doesn't (whatever that is) and not insurance for everything?
In that case, how do they manage the 'backstop'? Is there a 'hard border' entering Denmark from Greenland? Is Greenland in a customs union with the EU? Do you need a passport to travel from Greenland to Denmark, entering the EU? Could this be a model for us?
What if we left Gibraltar in the EU and created a customs union with Gibraltar, would that work?
One of the newspaper accounts that I read (sorry, forgot which) made out that it was worse than that: the UK habit of allowing the carry over of a few months from the old passport is unique to us, at least in the EU. And this article claimed that if you have a passport which thereby had a validity of over 10 years then some other EU countries would consider that its "real" expiry date was 10 years after it was issued not 10 years plus a few months, and therefore might refuse you entry if this gave it less than 6 months validity on entry. It sounds like they would be on very shaky ground if they did that, but what do I know.
The basic rule is that you are entitled to the same medical treatment as the locals, which varies from country to country. If you go to Denmark, their health service is same as ours, so you get free treatment. If you go to France, AIUI there is a flat fee to pay to see a doctor so you will pay the same as the locals. You would need to check with the website - or embassy - to see what the cover is.
I tend to look at it a bit like motor insurance. Third party will give you basic cover but fully comprehensive covers almost everything. EHIC is the 'third party' verson of health insurance. Not an accurate analogy, I know.
I read that version too. Presumably not the ones that rely on tourism :-)
That says everything about why the EU is wrong: too many states of too many different cultures and economies have been allowed to join.
Allowing eastern and south-eastern countries to join (Poland, Hungary, Greece etc) was stretching the point a bit, but allowing territories which are owned by a "real" EU country but which are geographically nowhere near Europe is taking the piss.
What *should* be the case with passports, if they were in the punter's favour rather than the government's, is that if any country requires n months of expiry date, you should be able to post-date the new passport to the expiry date of the old one, and be required to carry both passports as proof of continued coverage.
To make people buy a 10-year passport every 9 or 9.5 years is dishonest, because it is saying that the passport is only valid for part of the life that you have paid for. It's like the way that you have to pay for a new driving licence every 10 years simply in order that they add an updated photograph. You are paying money for something which ought to cost virtually nothing in terms of the issuing of the new licence/passport.
When a new passport is issued every 10 years, what do the passport office actually do? Do they simply issue a new passport with a different photo (which is a trivial cost) or is there any bureacratic identity checking that you are still eligible for a passport. If it was the latter, I can see that it will cost time and money.
There is probably a rule against that as well.
Using up the stock as quick as possible for when no deal happens?
GH
The photo booth at our local Tesco has done the same on-line checking for some time now. It doesn't do the reference number thing (unless it has changed in the last 8 months), but it does email the photo to you as well as printing it, so you can use the electronic copy for online applications.
SteveW
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