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    Your new blue passport

    "You will not be able to choose whether you get a burgundy or a blue passport. All styles of passport will be equally valid for travel.All British passports issued from mid-2020 will be blue."25 Sept 2020 www,gov.uk


    They are not! They are BLACK!
     
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    Quote Originally Posted by said View Post
    "You will not be able to choose whether you get a burgundy or a blue passport. All styles of passport will be equally valid for travel.All British passports issued from mid-2020 will be blue."25 Sept 2020 www,gov.uk


    They are not! They are BLACK!
    are we going to be able to travel.even county to county soon anyway,if our government of ocupation carrys on!!

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    Absolute waste of money! Who cares what colour their passport is?
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ts-Brexit.html

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    I would not fancy a pink one.

    White would get shabby quickly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hamble View Post
    I would not fancy a pink one.

    White would get shabby quickly.

    There are only four colours used for passports -RED, GREEN, BLUE AND BLACK.

    I think it is South Africa who have black passports.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hamble View Post
    I would not fancy a pink one.

    White would get shabby quickly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by said View Post
    There are only four colours used for passports -RED, GREEN, BLUE AND BLACK.

    I think it is South Africa who have black passports.
    I had a passport craftily 'switched' on leaving the UK.........

    I had previously noticed my passport had acquired a couple of irregular diagonal creases across its cover as if sat on whilst in a rear pocket, but thought little of it. Although I had never sat on it and couldn't work out how it had become creased.

    Checking out at Dover ferry terminal passport control, I handed it over to the female officer. She was stood behind a tallish desk along with a couple of male officers who looked closely on. It was out of my sight for just a few seconds whilst she did something with it below the desks counter-top, I presumed to scan the barcode or whatever.

    My passport (with precisely the same creases on its cover) was duly handed back to me closed, and I put it away without bothering looking inside. After all why should I, I could see it was mine by the distinctive cover.

    It was only later, when I opened it, that I saw the photo inside was now different. Of the photos I'd originally sent off with my passport application, I'd been relieved to find that the best one had been put in my passport.....But now my passport clearly contained the less flattering example - how weird was that!
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    Quote Originally Posted by said View Post
    There are only four colours used for passports -RED, GREEN, BLUE AND BLACK.



    I think it is South Africa who have black passports.
    Fancy you knowing that!

    There is nothing to stop the UK finding a different supplier.

    I would adore flashing a rainbow one through customs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The PNP View Post
    I had a passport craftily 'switched' on leaving the UK.........

    I had previously noticed my passport had acquired a couple of irregular diagonal creases across its cover as if sat on whilst in a rear pocket, but thought little of it. Although I had never sat on it and couldn't work out how it had become creased.

    Checking out at Dover ferry terminal passport control, I handed it over to the female officer. She was stood behind a tallish desk along with a couple of male officers who looked closely on. It was out of my sight for just a few seconds whilst she did something with it below the desks counter-top, I presumed to scan the barcode or whatever.

    My passport (with precisely the same creases on its cover) was duly handed back to me closed, and I put it away without bothering looking inside. After all why should I, I could see it was mine by the distinctive cover.

    It was only later, when I opened it, that I saw the photo inside was now different. Of the photos I'd originally sent off with my passport application, I'd been relieved to find that the best one had been put in my passport.....But now my passport clearly contained the less flattering example - how weird was that!
    That is weird.
    Could it have been your mistake on the photo?
    Taken for the purpose they look similar.

    Perhaps the creases made the officer suspicious enough to run it through another check.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hamble View Post
    That is weird.
    Could it have been your mistake on the photo?
    Taken for the purpose they look similar.

    Perhaps the creases made the officer suspicious enough to run it through another check.
    No mistake about the photo. The whole thing has puzzled me ever since. Far-fetched as it seems, I keep arriving back to the only possible explanation....That the passport people have an embossing press, presumably portable, designed to put a natural-looking crease in passport covers.

    Why they would go to such lengths, I have no idea. Possible it was done, to switch my existing passport for a duplicate containing an upgraded microchip without arousing my suspicion? If so, they certainly failed!
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    Quote Originally Posted by The PNP View Post
    No mistake about the photo. The whole thing has puzzled me ever since. Far-fetched as it seems, I keep arriving back to the only possible explanation....That the passport people have an embossing press, presumably portable, designed to put a natural-looking crease in passport covers.

    Why they would go to such lengths, I have no idea. Possible it was done, to switch my existing passport for a duplicate containing an upgraded microchip without arousing my suspicion? If so, they certainly failed!
    Which Border Control ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hamble View Post
    Which Border Control ?

    "Checking out at Dover ferry terminal passport control, I handed it over to the female officer."

    Orwell said "If there is hope, it lies in the proles." Whilst champagne socialists see diversity idealised at university, the common folk experience it first hand in their neighbour hoods.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Styx View Post
    "Checking out at Dover ferry terminal passport control, I handed it over to the female officer."

    I could not be sure of coming back from France or going?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hamble View Post
    I could not be sure of coming back from France or going?
    It was at departure control - I was on foot and about to board the ferry for Calais. .
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    Quote Originally Posted by The PNP View Post
    I had a passport craftily 'switched' on leaving the UK.........

    I had previously noticed my passport had acquired a couple of irregular diagonal creases across its cover as if sat on whilst in a rear pocket, but thought little of it. Although I had never sat on it and couldn't work out how it had become creased.

    Checking out at Dover ferry terminal passport control, I handed it over to the female officer. She was stood behind a tallish desk along with a couple of male officers who looked closely on. It was out of my sight for just a few seconds whilst she did something with it below the desks counter-top, I presumed to scan the barcode or whatever.

    My passport (with precisely the same creases on its cover) was duly handed back to me closed, and I put it away without bothering looking inside. After all why should I, I could see it was mine by the distinctive cover.

    It was only later, when I opened it, that I saw the photo inside was now different. Of the photos I'd originally sent off with my passport application, I'd been relieved to find that the best one had been put in my passport.....But now my passport clearly contained the less flattering example - how weird was that!
    Hmmmmm!!!!!! let's be charitable and say you were mistaken, failing that I now understand your at times, pie in the sky day dreams.

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