UK Expat Passport Dilemmas

UK passports cover the globe! Whilst the British have stopped colonizing, UK expats still live all over the world. From Canada to Australia it's hard to imagine a country where UK citizens don't reside. Being a UK expat brings many benefits but also some hassle. Keeping ties with dear old Blighty is important; few Brits renounce their British nationality and its easy to understand why. A British passport is like gold dust allowing access and protection in countries far and wide.

And that is why so many expats have to renew their UK passports from abroad rather than popping to the Post Office in the UK and picking up the British passport application forms there. Its quite difficult to renew your passport from a foreign location even if the country you live in is English speaking,. First you have to find the British Embassy website then read through their UK passport guide and find all of the relevant UK government passport forms to download.

Unfortunately government websites the world over are notoriously renowned for their complexity. Most send you off searching in different directions across two or more websites and this just for information on the UK passport fees. The UK passport application forms have to be downloaded from several locations and those poor souls who want to apply because the British passport was lost or stolen will experience great difficulty in retrieving the correct form for this as it is located separate to the main application forms. On top of this applicants who want to apply for a UK passport from the USA or Canada need to fill out an additional UK passport form as do UK passport applicants with close ties to Hong Kong. Those UK passport applicants living in South and Central America also need to know that they must apply for their British passport through the North America and Caribbean passport office.

Thankfully there is an easier solution where all of the relevant UK passport forms can be found in one location with easy to read guidance notes. Everything needed to apply for a UK passport in key locations where Brits reside is available in an easy-to-download application pack giving UK passport applicants a stress-free and time saving way of renewing their British passport or claiming their first British passport.