General Chit Chat

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Anyhow. Different topic. (Thought of opening a thread but it's not worth it really).
Does anyone know, can you still just renew a passport for a further ten years (and thus preserve one's precious visas, such as my now very rare multiple entry to US visa and Canada working permit) or do you have to get a new one (like what happened when they brought out the new fashioned burgundy europassports and dumped the old fashioned big black jobs)?

[Bruce Rioja]

My US multiple entry Visa is in my old passport, Spotty. I have to take it along with my current passport whenever I go. I didn't know that there'd ever been an option to prolong one.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

My US multiple entry Visa is in my old passport, Spotty. I have to take it along with my current passport whenever I go. I didn't know that there'd ever been an option to prolong one.

Yeh, back when they were big and black I extended my first passport and added ten years to it. They (the passport office) stamped some very unconvincing purple remarks on Observations page 5 and nailed a new passport to the back of the old one. The new one contained 50 (or 60) pages rather than the usual 30 which was an option I'd gone for paying something like an extra fiver on top of the fee (which was either £10, 20, or 25 quid - my memory isn't very reliable on those details, but it was a bargain). When I tried to re-re-extend that by another ten years they wouldn't let me because the new super-duper burgundy jobbies had just arrived. So I had to recollect all my visas in the new one. I never even thought I could just take my old one along with the new one. Never entered my noodle.

[Bruce Rioja]

Still, and as I'm sure you'll know yourself, being in possession of a multiple entry visa still doesn't mean that you get to avoid a and-why-the-feck-are-you-darkening-our-threshold? type of going-over by Homeland Securities. God bless America, eh?!

They gave me my old passport back, the one with the Visa in it, with the corners clipped off of it.

How long does a Turkish visa last, do you know?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Still, and as I'm sure you'll know yourself, being in possession of a multiple entry visa still doesn't mean that you get to avoid a and-why-the-feck-are-you-darkening-our-threshold? type of going-over by Homeland Securities. God bless America, eh?!

They gave me my old passport back, the one with the Visa in it, with the corners clipped off of it.

How long does a Turkish visa last, do you know?

Never been, don't know.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Still, and as I'm sure you'll know yourself, being in possession of a multiple entry visa still doesn't mean that you get to avoid a and-why-the-feck-are-you-darkening-our-threshold? type of going-over by Homeland Securities. God bless America, eh?!

They gave me my old passport back, the one with the Visa in it, with the corners clipped off of it.

How long does a Turkish visa last, do you know?

Do you need a visa for the US, Bruce. I had to go there this spring on a UK passport and all I needed was an Esta (visa waiver program) which I got online in 24 hours. See https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.

[Bruce Rioja]

Still, and as I'm sure you'll know yourself, being in possession of a multiple entry visa still doesn't mean that you get to avoid a and-why-the-feck-are-you-darkening-our-threshold? type of going-over by Homeland Securities. God bless America, eh?!

They gave me my old passport back, the one with the Visa in it, with the corners clipped off of it.

How long does a Turkish visa last, do you know?

Do you need a visa for the US, Bruce. I had to go there this spring on a UK passport and all I needed was an Esta (visa waiver program) which I got online in 24 hours. See https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.

Not ordinarily, Monty. Filling in an Esta's fine. However, remember when I went over to work in Las Vegas some years ago? I was advised to get one then.

[Dujon]

Bloody passports! I've never had one but have had one particular experience with them that has put me off them for life.

I used to be a Justice of the Peace. Justices of the Peace cannot charge for their services. I had a bloke who used to do microwave repairs for me on an ad hoc basis. He was about 45 years of age and had travelled extensively. For some reason or other (I can't recall why) he had the need to photocopy all his passports, page by page. Stacked on upon the other the pile was 150mm high. Now, each of the photocopied pages had to be endorsed by a J.P. as being a fair copy.

The endorsement read something like (I can't remember the exact wording): I, <name> J.P., certify that this is a true and fair copy of the original in pursuance of <name of act and section>.
Signed ................ J.P.
Date ...........

Fortunately he didn't need it all done in a hurry as a week was fine. By the time I'd piled up the photocopies it must have been close to half a ream's worth. I was not prepared to sit down and write the declaration over 200 times so I forked out about $45 for a rubber stamp. I still had to sign them all, of course.

[CrazyHorse]

Hey Duj, did you not need a passport to move to Oz? Unless if course you're one of the last convicts we sent out there...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Hey Duj, did you not need a passport to move to Oz? Unless if course you're one of the last convicts we sent out there...

I always assumed he was, like, a third generation Bolton supporter. A bit like a member of a lost tribe, wandering about the outback displaying his white colours and looking for elephants. His nearest relative being 2399 whom he tries to avoid because they had a fundamental disagreement at the previous tribal pow-wow.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Incoming. (Kitchens).
Well, that's new - Jobs selling Kitchens, earn £50k.

[Gooner Girl]

Just had a lovely swim with the kids. Shame my daughter figured out how to open the lock on the changing room door and exposed my naked wet body to the masses of Burgess Hill...

[bobo the clown]

Just had a lovely swim with the kids. Shame my daughter figured out how to open the lock on the changing room door and exposed my naked wet body to the masses of Burgess Hill...

So long as you're tidy no-one will mind.

[bwfcdan94]

Just had a lovely swim with the kids. Shame my daughter figured out how to open the lock on the changing room door and exposed my naked wet body to the masses of Burgess Hill...

So long as you're tidy no-one will mind.

Bobo. tut tut tut.

[Harry Genshaw]

Just had a lovely swim with the kids. Shame my daughter figured out how to open the lock on the changing room door and exposed my naked wet body to the masses of Burgess Hill...

So long as you're tiny no-one will mind.

Fixed that for you

[bwfcdan94]

There is a mysterious lonely cow on our local cricket pitch which is currently used 5 times a week! Never known cattle being kept on their before and given that it is used pretty much constantly by local football and cricket teams all year it is a bit surprising to say the least.

[Always hopeful]

There is a mysterious lonely cow on our local cricket pitch which is currently used 5 times a week! Never known cattle being kept on their before and given that it is used pretty much constantly by local football and cricket teams all year it is a bit surprising to say the least.

Dan, seriously, forgetting the lonely cow for a minute, as a piece of advice for your future progression in life, please look up and remember when and how to use 'their' and 'there' in the correct context. Trust me in saying that having a basic grasp of this pretty fundamental aspect of the English language is advantageous.

[Dujon]

Hey Duj, did you not need a passport to move to Oz? Unless if course you're one of the last convicts we sent out there...

No, Crazy, we came out as boat people. My father wangled himself a first class passage even though we children were 'steerage'.

[Gary the Enfield]

Hey Duj, did you not need a passport to move to Oz? Unless if course you're one of the last convicts we sent out there...

No, Crazy, we came out as boat people. My father wangled himself a first class passage even though we children were 'steerage'.

£10 poms?

[thebish]