Renewing child passport

[VirtualWaver]

Hi Guys,

Hope you all are doing well!

I am trying to renew my daughter's child British passport online and there is a confusing question which is "Do you have any passports from other countries?".

Now, my daughter does have a dual citizenship (but she was born in the UK), however, her passport from the other country expired a couple of years ago (not cancelled but expired) and we never applied for a new one, so she doesn't have a valid passport from the other country, only the expired one.

Shall I answer "Yes" or "No" to this question? Also, my understanding is that I do not need to send them her expired passport from the other country, correct?

I tried to look at the booklet: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u ... et_IND.pdf but it still doesn't answer my question.

Hope someone could shed some light to this. Thanks a lot!

[alterhase58]

It doesn’t ask for valid passport. So just send the expired one. Child can’t use it anyway. There’s no rule that it must be a valid passport.

[vinny]

Make sure the names in the foreign passport exactly matches the names in the British passport.

[VirtualWaver]

Make sure the names in the foreign passport exactly matches the names in the British passport.

It doesn’t ask for valid passport. So just send the expired one. Child can’t use it anyway. There’s no rule that it must be a valid passport.

Thanks a lot, both! The names match so its not an issue.

I will answer Yes and send her foreign expired passport then.

I also have 3 more questions, please.

1. This expired foreign passport is her latest one from the other country but she had 1 more passport before that too from the same country (which expired so she received this new (currently expired) one). Do I need to send both or just the most recent one?

2. Following the logic that I need to send her old expired passport with this application, does it mean that we will need to send this passport on each future passport renewal for the rest of her life? We are not planning to renew this foreign passport as not using it at all (can travel with British passport instead).

3. Likewise, we might consider renouncing our 2nd citizenship - in this case, do we still need to send that old, expired foreign passport on each application regardless that the citizenship was renounced? The online form is very confusing in this regard, simply asking "Do you have any passports from other countries" without giving an opportunity to clarify, so it is a bit unclear.

Thanks for this!

[alterhase58]

1. No, just the last one will do.
2. Possibly but the rules may change.
3. No, once you renounce the passport is basically cancelled so if it comes to it child will just say NO.

[VirtualWaver]

1. No, just the last one will do.
2. Possibly but the rules may change.
3. No, once you renounce the passport is basically cancelled so if it comes to it child will just say NO.

Thanks a million! - Bookmarked this page for the future ref.

[vinny]

Why do you want to renounce your other citizenship?