UK Passports

flag-uj FOR ALL BRITONS RESIDENTS IN THE USA    
----Lost passports and replacements.
---Renewal of passports for expats in USA.
----Issue of totally new ones for children born in the USA to British citizens
----VISAS for travel to the UK for non UK citizens
All the above UK passport matters are handled centrally by the British Embassy in Washington.  Nowhere else.   Nowhere in Florida!   FIRST:   You have to go to their website www.ukinusa.fco.gov.uk  Click around to get answers, download passport forms and renewal info.  It's easy.  Mail back the forms to Washington with requisite fees and photos [all explained on the forms you download].   Allow 2-4 weeks for your renewed or new passport to arrive at your Florida ddress. 

► Or phone (202) 588-7800 and press the relevant option for recorded information.     NOTE:   Since 2005 the Passport Center has not accepted telephone calls unless you pay.   When you phone they will direct you to the website and  [for questions] to their 900 pay-as-you go number.   ALL the information you need for applying for a passport for the first time, or renewing an expired passport is available on that website Image4Rentpagepassport.gifincluding application forms, a list of fees, and what you need to send with your application.   The Passport Center does not accept telephone calls.    Instead, their service delivery partner, Abtran, will answer your questions on 1-800-285-7277 but they charge you a fee for this service, and the information they have is exactly the same as the information on  www.ukinusa.fco.gov.uk      YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED:    Click on that same website to find answers to every question about your passport. ►  PHOTOS:    UK PASSPORT PHOTOS MUST BE A SPECIAL SIZE--GET THEM DONE in FLORIDA via special service on website:   www.passportpictures.org   



 ► BUT NOTE:   The application forms you receive from the US Embassy in Washington say that photos must be a special UK size and you can't use regular ones cut down.  But Florida Brits have told me they submitted passport photos done at Walgreens and CVS [$8 while you wait] and carefully trimmed them down to UK size.  The Embassy accepted them!  So it's your choice.
► NOTE EMERGENCY ONLY     British passports in the USA [new and renewals] are issued only by the Passport Center in Washington D.C.    But the Orlando British Consulate [407] 254-3300 and Miami British Consulate-General [305] 374-1522  can provide you with an emergency travel document if your passport has been lost or stolen but has not expired.  Phone them direct---NOT email.   See the BRITISH CONSULATES page on this website for more info.

 

 ►  NEED TO OBTAIN A COPY OF YOUR BRITISH BIRTH CERTIFICATE?   OR MARRIAGE OR DEATH CERTIFICATE?    FOR ANY BRITISH CITIZEN you must apply to The UK Government's General Register Office, where all public records are kept. Records of all births, deaths, marriages in the UK since 1837 are kept at St. Catherine's House in London. You can go there in person to order a duplicate certificate [for a small fee]: St. Catherine's House, 10 Kingsway, London WC2B 6JP England or write there. Their website www.gro.gov.uk  will reveal all the info.      You'll find all the info you need there. There is an Overseas Department shown on the website too. Click around and see what you need. If you still have questions about such documents, call the British Consulate in Orlando [407] 254-3300. They do NOT issue any UK replacement documents, but may be able to answer your questions.