Passport Photo

[Allied]

I have a current adult passport and have definitely outgrown the hairstyle I had at 17!! I am 22 now. I have been all over the passport site which says nothing about how you just change your photo. The only amendment to passport it mentions is specifically 'name'
Has anyone any ideas!!

[dzug]

If you really want to change it, just apply for a new passport. You'll have to pay the full fee.

You can't 'just change your photo'.

[gateaux coco]

Have you tried www.passport.gov.uk

that has all the necessary info. I don't think you need to change your photo, we all change hair, but you need to look like the same person...ie if you look like a woman now, but then you looked like a girl, you had better change it, but passport renewal is �66 so it isnt cheap, only change it if you need to, unless yours will expire soon; a passport lasts ten yrs...hope this helps

Or you could do your hair like when you were 17 :-)

[stewey]

Allied, I hope you can laugh at my comment as I am. If you are having a problem with your passport regarding a five year difference in age, what are you going to do if you are still traveling when you are 50? Have a nice trip:)

[Reverandfunk]

On my passport photo I have really long hair and now I've got a skinhead, it just gives most custom officials a good laugh....

[saxy_jag]

As Dzug says, the only way you can change it is if you apply for a completely new passport, in which case you'll have to declare the old one as lost.

The only time that passports can be replaced for a change of photo is in the case of children, whose passports can be replaced after five years.

I think it's standard form that a) you always look like a demented gerbil on your passport photo, b) officials always have a laugh at it, and c) you're not supposed to like it.

I hate mine too, and it's only a couple of years old. But it's not as though I have to look at it every day.

Don't worry, Allied, you only have another five years to go, and you can change it when you replace the passport

[kempie]

saxy_jag - You do not have to declare a passport as lost to renew it before expiration. You can renew a standard adult 10-year passport whenever you want to...

http://www.passport.gov.uk/passport_renewing_e ligible.asp

[Allied]

Thanks all - glad it gave some of you a laugh!! It's bad enough that I am still going to renew it though.

[jno]

the standards required for photos are much more stringent now, don't dare look happy etc etc (the rules are on the site) - thanks to the war on terror. New passports now come with computer chips included. The fee is going up again in October, I think.