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shortly a passport application is going to involve travel at your own expense to a centre where you will be grilled, fingerprinted, iris scanned and charged thru the nose for a passport
In most other European countries it's normal to pay a personal visit to obtain a passport or a renewal.
I see you you don't live in UK - lucky you
As knobbygb says, luck has nothing to do with it, life on the continent is better. Was in London a few days ago with the wife, had an average dinner in a restaurant on Frith Street, £124 plus an 'optional ' 12.5% service charge, filled in the breakfast card in the hotel for 9.00am and it was delivered at 6.45am. My wife was also called a French c*nt by some drunken idiots in a pub in Newman St. Fortunately she didn't understand that word.