Getting a UK passport for a baby

My baby is due any week now and in may I plan to return to the UK in May. What is the procedure of baby passports... it seems so strange to have a baby on a passport!!! thanks for your help.

kirsty

xxx

They have to have one. Talk to the embassy.

Why does it seem starnge to have a baby on a passport...its a form of ID...you could be travelling with anyones baby,no one is too know if the baby is yours or someones elses wihout ID.Get a a passport issued from the consulate in Düsseldorf.you`ll need a photo of your baby and documents to get one issued,chuck in a few euros and there you .Bon Voyage!!!

You need to fill in form C2 which you can download from the passport section on the British Consulate website:

Form C2
Form C2 notes

Anecdotally it is a bit absurd. You have to hold the kid up to get the picture for the passport, which just distorts how a newborn looks. Two years later you can take any two-year-old with you and say it's the same kid as in that picture -- there's no way anyone could tell. It made more sense when you could just have them entered in your own passport, though you could have still just taken a random two-year-old with you as long as you had one listed in your ID.

Just out of curiousity, how long is a UK passport for a newborn good for? The Canadian one is only valid for a year for a child under 1, after which point you have to renew it with a new picture for exactly the above reasons KK lists. It's a very low fee for the renewal at least.

UK passports for children (0 - 16 years of age) are good for 5 years.

The woman at the consulate told me to take a picture of the baby laid down on a bed or on the floor, on a white blanket.

Home Office guidelines for baby & child passport pictures.

Thanks mulah.

And costs an arm and a leg, i beleive € 110 for a kid and € 175 for an adult

Thanks everyone... xxx

Hi Kristy, If you really want the kiddo to have its own passport its probably going to be cheaper to get it in England. What they are charging here is what you would pay to get it same day in London. So if it doesn't cost you anything or very little to first add the little one to yours and your making a trip in May - it might make more sense.

You can no longer add children to an adult passport. They must have their own.

Very true YL6

I don't have children but I know their little faces charge a lot so do children passports have a photo's.

Children are only allowed to charge if they have a Gewerbeschein and can write their own invoices.

I don't have children but I know their little faces change a lot so do children passports have a photo's.

smart arse

Following up on this, I found this site where you can upload a photo, scale and crop it to the correct size according to various different countries' passport standards, and then generate a sheet of 8 photos ready to print out on photo paper.

ePassportPhoto

I've just done a couple and they seem to have come out quite well.

There is no option about it.
And how would the baby get to the UK without a passport?

The IPS only issues passports for British citizens living in the UK. So assuming she's registered as a resident in Germany, she wouldn't be allowed to apply for the baby's passport in the UK even if she did manage to smuggle it into the country in her luggage.

I think it will be easier to get a German passport for my little one... not sure why I didn't think of that before...anybody done that? I know its a lot cheaper (the UK is one big fat rip off for everything!!!)

Thanks for your help

I used to live down T'road from you - in Plumley...

My children were born in Germany & their mother (my wife) is German. We first had child's passports (issued by the Bürgermeister here) and then when we wanted to visit the US had to get real passports (they were 17 & 14 at this stage).

They are eligible to get UK passports any time but as you point out they are much more expensive..

Would your child be eligible for a German passport?

PAY THE MONEY

(yes hmg is a cunt)

Just do it innit.

Yes he is German anyway! So it will be quicker to do it tthis way... and as a young mummy I need to save as much money as I can... innit

Thanks xxx

Case closed then