Passport question again

[demi]

Did you have to have someone in the UK sign your photo as a verification that it was you? My daughter in law did when she last renewed her UK passport.

[Loup-garou]

It is not necessary for a renewal with the old passport available.

[Blaze]

@demi No, no signature necessary. I uploaded the photo and it was well accepted - presumably it had the same biometric measurements or whatever.

[exile]

Unless you read the forms quite carefully, it can seem that a signature is required on a renewal. I nearly got caught out when I made my first renewal in Germany and was wondering how I was going to find an acceptable person to do the signing. But re-reading the forms I then found it was not necessary.

The wording may have changed since then of course.

[Blaze]

I imagine that being my third renewal here, a signature is not necessary. There was never any indication in the on line renewal that it would be necessary.

[Nomoss]

My wife's image by her old digital camera was not accepted by the bot a couple of years ago, so we had one taken by the local photographer, who emailed it to us.

I had a similar problem last month, using my laptop camera. The bot didn't like it, but I simply stated that it looked good to me.

The images were accepted in both cases.

[exile]

A not dissimilar case here. We got our pictures taken by a professional but mine was rejected. I objected and said that I had driven 22km to get the picture taken by a professional.

Lo and behold, the picture was accepted.

[Blaze]

Just had an email from DHL saying they will deliver my passport tomorrow. If all goes to plan, I call that fantastic service - just over 2 weeks from my online application.