New Passport Question

Tone71

My passport needs renewing and I`ve got to get some photos done.

I normally have a beard from October - March and am cleanish shaven the rest of the year so if I have a pic tomorrow it will have a full beard yet when I travel in the Summer/Autumn I will be beardless.

I`m leaning towards having a shave for the sake of it, but......

Does it matter?

RaymondLin

Bring a fake beard with you through immigration to wear it for that 30 seconds.

problem solved.

ICBM

If your passport photo is clean-shaven but you're bearded, they'll assume you're an Islamist with a stolen passport.

If your passport photo is bearded but you're clean-shaven, they'll assume you're an Islamist who's gone undercover.




If you use your passport most when you're clean-shaven then it would probably make things a lot easier to be clean-shaven in the picture, even though I'm mostly joking...

VimFuego

whatever you do, make sure you have plenty of candles about your person, and some switchy things and the odd alarm clock, then it'll all be good.

Fretwired

Big beard .. what could go wrong .. 'off to fight with IS are you sir' ... 'only October to March as outside that period I'm getting the poppy crop in ..'

bluechargeboy

From https://www.gov.uk/changing-passport-information

Changes you don’t have to report

You don’t have to tell HM Passport Office or get a new passport if you:

• change your address or contact details
• get a new job
• change your appearance slightly - for example, dye your hair or grow a beard
• change your marital status (divorce, marry or form a civil partnership) but keep your name
• change your title, for example, doctor or professor
• become a national of another country as well as the UK
• emigrate

Good luck, hope you're not allergic to latex!!

djspecialist

I have grown a beard since getting my current passport.  A fairly neat one, not Mr Twit stylee.

No latex incidents to date, and that included a couple of visits to the good old US of A.

littlegreenman

Tone71 said:

My passport needs renewing and I`ve got to get some photos done.

I normally have a beard from October - March and am cleanish shaven the rest of the year so if I have a pic tomorrow it will have a full beard yet when I travel in the Summer/Autumn I will be beardless.

I`m leaning towards having a shave for the sake of it, but......

Does it matter?

I'd probably advise having it trimmed short beard/ long stubble for the photo's so the pic looks like you either with a beard or without. A full beard to clean shaven or vice versa won't get your pics refused by the passport office unless you look "completely different" but it can raise eyebrows at immigration controls in other countries.

I "may" have some experience in these matters.

danishbacon

They look at your eyebrows/eyes. 

ICBM

danishbacon said:

They look at your eyebrows/eyes. 

So if you're going to shave, it's probably best to leave the eyebrows alone...

littlegreenman

danishbacon said:

They look at your eyebrows/eyes. 

And a lot of other things besides...

Tone71

littlegreenman said:

Tone71 said:

My passport needs renewing and I`ve got to get some photos done.

I normally have a beard from October - March and am cleanish shaven the rest of the year so if I have a pic tomorrow it will have a full beard yet when I travel in the Summer/Autumn I will be beardless.

I`m leaning towards having a shave for the sake of it, but......

Does it matter?

I'd probably advise having it trimmed short beard/ long stubble for the photo's so the pic looks like you either with a beard or without. A full beard to clean shaven or vice versa won't get your pics refused by the passport office unless you look "completely different" but it can raise eyebrows at immigration controls in other countries.

I "may" have some experience in these matters.

That is too intriguing........and the advice I will take  

Sassafras

They didn't even notice I'd had a sex-change.

Rocker

It was on the RTE News recently that a *lot* of people from Northern Ireland have applied for and received Republic of Ireland passports.  A Unionist politician confirmed that he has counter signed a number of applications from people he knew to be staunch Unionists.  Brexit has a lot to answer for.  

boogieman

My passport photo has me clean shaven but I’ve had a goatee beard for a few years. 9 times out of 10 it doesn’t cause any problems, but occasionally going through the automated passport gates I get pushed over to see an actual person to check my passport. 

further

In the seventies I was passing between Yugoslavia and Italy,my passport photo was of me with long hair and full beard at the time  I had close cropped hair and no beardt,three fricing hours in Italian passport control YMMV

blueskunk

I look well dodgy on my passport pic

ICBM

further said:

In the seventies I was passing between Yugoslavia and Italy,my passport photo was of me with long hair and full beard at the time  I had close cropped hair and no beardt,three fricing hours in Italian passport control YMMV

Were they waiting for it to grow again so they could see what you looked like?

further

It felt like it