If your passport has expired or is due for renewal soon, take action now before application fees rise from 11 April 2024.
A standard online application made from within the UK will rise from £82.50 for adults to £88.50 for the 34-page version, while children’s passports will rise to £57.50 from £53.50.
Meanwhile, postal applications will increase by £7 for adults, taking the price to £100, and by £5 to stand at £69 for children.
For those requiring the urgent/fast-track service, prices are also set to fly.
Currently, the fast-track service costs £155 for adults and £126 for children, but this will rise to £166.50 and £135.50 respectively.
Meanwhile the Online Premium service costs £193.50 for adults but this will rise to £207.50 for a same day turnaround.
The fee increase, proposed by the Home Office and HM Passport Office, is subject to parliamentary approval but is expected to come into force for applications received from 11 April 2024.
Passports usually arrive within three weeks
Last year was the first time in five years that passport fees were hiked.
Passports are usually issued within three weeks – a timescale that has recently come down from the up-to-10-week time frame previously quoted.
The offices said the new fees will help ensure that income from these applications “better meets the cost of delivering passports and associated operations, reducing reliance on funding from general taxation”.
They added that the Government does not make any profit from the cost of passport applications.
For those applying for passports from outside the UK, the proposed fees are as follows:
- A standard online application when applying from overseas will rise to £101 (up from £94) for adults and £65.50 (up from £61) for children. There’s also a £19.86 courier fee.
- A standard paper application when applying from overseas will increase to £112.50 for adults (up from £104.50) and £77 for children, up from £71.50.
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