A little from column A, a little from cloumn B.
Lost it when I moved house, travelling in 14 days.
old birth cert that i used TO GET MY LAST PASSPORT not acceptable.
need to get new birth cert.
get all my docs signed by a JP and sent off... paid for express postage
get a letter back (not express post either) stating that it has to be signed by a JP, in a police station. so I have to go to the C.I.B. and have some shitckicker freshfaced cuntstable that probably barely finished highschool sign off on them, because aparently being within the walls of a police station makes him more trustworthy than the official JP that I used that spent close to 10 years in medical school.
go to BDM and they give me my birth certificate and an UNUSED EXPRESS ENVELOPE because i had paid for it and they didn't use it.
go to post office for my "interview" with all the docs and get told they can't do priority apps.
call passport office and get told that all post offices can
get the app done and have to pay $233 + $103 priority processing fee.
put application through without "lost passport" fee as passport is expired
call passport office agaqin just to double check.
as my passport is expired LESS THAN 2 YEARS ago, i need to redo the application with an aditional $103 fee.
go back in to PO.... queue up for a 5th time for the day and get it processed
and it's STILL going to take a week!