Renewing your passport

[altariel]

Repost of email from the NO2ID campaign on how to renew your passport now that the Identity Cards Act has become law. I've just been to the Passport Office website to apply online to renew my passport and the process was very easy. If you have a current passport, you will need the number of that passport to fill in the online application form.


Dear all,

*** RENEW YOUR PASSPORT IN MAY 2006 ***

As many of you will no doubt have noticed, now that the Identity Cards Act 2006 has become law, lots of ID opponents are considering when to renew their passport. Some have done so already.

NO2ID have produced a fact sheet [see http://www.renewforfreedom.org/NO2ID_Factsheet1.pdf - 69KB PDF file] which explains why it is a good idea to do this, asks people to renew their passport in May as a collective statement against the ID scheme*, and provides some information on how to go about renewing. We have also created a website at http://www.renewforfreedom.org with additional information, the factsheet for download in different formats and resources to help promote this particular act of defiance/resistance and personal data protection. Please check it out.

We are asking everyone who supports the renewal campaign to pass on the factsheet, or a link to the 'Renew for Freedom' website, with their endorsement. PLEASE DO NOT SPAM! You could, e.g. forward this message or an excerpt of it to friends, colleagues or mailing lists and fora where you regularly post with your own explanation of why you'll be renewing. Or print some copies out and distribute them.

In line with NO2ID's consistently non-partisan, single issue approach we are seeking endorsement from as wide a range of organisations as possible in the run-up to May. If you represent an organisation that is willing to support, endorse and distribute the factsheet then please get in touch by sending an e-mail to renewtofreedom@no2id.net

After this initial 'below the radar' period, we shall be having an official launch event and then intend to kick off a series of activities throughout May that we hope will sustain mainstream media attention. Details will be published in our regular newsletter as they become available. You can help NOW though by, e.g. writing a letter to your local paper saying why you will be renewing your passport in May - don't forget to include the www.renewforfreedom.org address. Or why not add the link to your e-mail signature [see below]?

I shall be renewing my passport in May, I hope you will too.

Regards,

Phil Booth
National Coordinator, NO2ID

*Please note, we are NOT trying to crash the Passport Service! We simply want to make our point. Were, e.g. UKIPS (the new United Kingdom IDENTITY & Passport Service) to announce that our action was beginning to compromise normal operations, then we would have achieved our goal and could announce a general stand-down. Seriously inconveniencing the British public is not our agenda - we leave that to the Home Office.

renew for freedom - MAY 2006 - renew your passport
http://www.renewforfreedom.org

Comments

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this reminder. I've filled in the online application form. My current passport expires in 2011.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Very glad it was useful.

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

I've been meaning to do this for a while - thanks for the reminder and the incentive to do it promptly.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Glad this was helpful :-)

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

And I've now completed online applications for both of us. Just have to get the damned photographs taken.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'm not looking forward to that bit of the process either. I was about to type that nothing could be worse than my current picture, but it feels like tempting fate.

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this. I've just filled in the on-line form. My passport has another two years to go but I'd far rather be safe than sorry. Might try and get one of the photographers at work to do me a photo - I always look like a terrified rabbit when I step inside one of those booths.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I always look irritated and slightly insane. Hmm.

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

Hmm - Well perhaps you're just sensibly kicking against the system, while I'm staring wide-eyed at that mirror thing, desperate to get it right.

[raspberryfool.livejournal.com]

I was planning to wait until i need a passport, but i'll renew in may as a protest. Mine has been out of date for a couple of years anyway. Thanks for posting this Alt, - not having proper web access is a pain.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Glad to help. That online application service is very quick (I don't know if you need the number of an expired passport).

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

I kept reading "factsheet" in your post as "fascist." Can't think why.

Over here on the other side of the Atlantic, I await this same development with both fear and loathing.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It's all more than a bit depressing.