British Passport for Children with American Passports - Am I reading this

correctly?

I need to send in their American passports with the application for the British one, too?

The section says I have to send in all uncancelled passports.

WTF?!

I'm doing Check and Send, but the website says I still have to forward all the documents as well.

FFS.

I'm actually thinking it might be better to try to do them all in person and just pay up rather than send all this. 

If they lose those US passports we're so f*&^d.

We're travelling 31 March.

No, they just mean any previous British passports, not American or other nationalities.

I can confirm this answer as well - I called the hotline and he said not to send in my son's American passport.

Thought I'd update this, especially because it appears to echo Marlespo's experience obtaining British passports for her children.

Yes, you now need to submit the American passports.  ALL uncancelled ones from any nation. 

We did Check and Send so here's hoping.

I wonder if this would apply for renewing them as well.  I can't believe it, but Josh has to renew in about a year and a half!!! (He got his at less then 3 months)

Crossing fingers for you!!!

I wonder if this would apply for renewing them as well.  I can't believe it, but Josh has to renew in about a year and a half!!! (He got his at less then 3 months)

Crossing fingers for you!!!

Thanks!  Lemme dig out the booklet they sent with the applications to check.  I know for adults they have to submit their old British passport.

Man, it is all hella expensive!  DH renewed his in November and with photos, it was £81!

Plus, of course, they charge you £3 extra/app to have your supporting documents sent back securely or they dump them in second class post.

Thank you!

I know, not a cheap process at all!  Especially when you do all at once

Thank you!

I know, not a cheap process at all!  Especially when you do all at once

Check and Send plus secure return delivery of supporting documents for 3 of them:  £170.

 

Thought I'd update this, especially because it appears to echo Marlespo's experience obtaining British passports for her children.

Yes, you now need to submit the American passports.  ALL uncancelled ones from any nation. 

We did Check and Send so here's hoping.

I don't know when you updated /applied - but the hotline for passports specifically said NOT to include their american passport - just a copy of the information page - in my case. I got that information in October and it's also what it says on the detailed information page on what to submit on the website.   (which is down right now or i'd put in the link)  You do have to prove id - but they told me that a copy of the passport info page would be enough.

I don't know when you updated /applied - but the hotline for passports specifically said NOT to include their american passport - just a copy of the information page - in my case. I got that information in October and it's also what it says on the detailed information page on what to submit on the website.   (which is down right now or i'd put in the link)  You do have to prove id - but they told me that a copy of the passport info page would be enough.

Today.  I did it today. 

Section 3 and the notes now specifically state that you must submit any uncancelled passport: ' This includes passports you are included on or were included on (for example, as a child) and passports issued by other countries.  With your application you must send us any passport which is current or is no longer valid but has not been replaced.  If you don't, this will delay your application.'

I did Check and Send and you must now submit the passport.

This follows up Marlespo's experience, as well, obtaining British passports for her children. 

OOOH - if I wasn't already peeved with them than I am now. 
Thanks for the info - I already was expecting mine back from them because of the whole "adopted" issue so i guess now I'll know enough to send the passport too. 

I CANNOT believe how annoying the process is to get a passport - and that they can just change the rules.  I can understand if you have a reason to be suspicious of a particular applicant - but this is crazy.  And apparently if my son was born after 2006 then I'd not have to prove up the half of this!

UGH.  Red tape.  Who invented it?  Oh, Yeah. The British.

OOOH - if I wasn't already peeved with them than I am now. 
Thanks for the info - I already was expecting mine back from them because of the whole "adopted" issue so i guess now I'll know enough to send the passport too. 

I CANNOT believe how annoying the process is to get a passport - and that they can just change the rules.  I can understand if you have a reason to be suspicious of a particular applicant - but this is crazy.  And apparently if my son was born after 2006 then I'd not have to prove up the half of this!

UGH.  Red tape.  Who invented it?  Oh, Yeah. The British.

I'm SO there with you!  OMG!  We did Check and Send, right.  Get there and right away, the countersignatory, our Health Visitor, wrote the child's name rather than the adult's name is Section 10.  So I had to go back to her house and get her to re-sign!  Yep, I had to RE-DO three applications!

We go back again, she takes the American passports, yes, they have go, too.

Aillidh's photo, from one of those booths, we rejected.  We have to go BACK with her app.  I had to get her another photo and I'll need to ask her old nursery teacher, a qualified teacher, to countersign it for quickness because our car needs its back brakes redone tomorrow for its MOT.

FFS!

Oh, and it was £120.  They still charged us for the Check and Send for all three, as long as we bring back Aillidh's application within 30 days, but we'll have to pay her fee.

It was a joke!

Andrew signed on all of them, because I was not a British national when the girls were born, and we still had to show our marriage certificate AND the now expired passport of his that was valid at the time of all their births.

 

The till operator at the Co-Op where we went to the Post Office said she lost her passport on holiday over Xmas and went through a living hell to get another one.  She said she was treated as if she'd sold it on to some crook.