passports

[grannie39]

I put this question in arts by mistake, no doubt some kind soul will tell me, my question is can you still get those short quickie passports for a quick visit to france to the world war one grave cemetetry. many thanks for any answers

[sara3]

I don't think they do them any more. here is a list of current passport fees, it goes up (a lot!) next month so you may want to look into this asap.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport /Passports/howlongittakesandurgentappplication s/DG_174109

[Buenchico]

The one-year British visitor's passport was withdrawn in 1995. The travel document which permitted short trips to France (of up to 48 hours, if I recall correctly) had disappeared roughly a decade earlier. So you seem to be at least 30 years too late to get hold of the document you're seeking.

Border free travel (with no documentation required whatsoever) is now available across the whole of the European Union (as well as several other countries) except for the UK and Ireland. That's because the UK government refuses to sign up to the Schengen agreement (and because Ireland shares a land border with the UK). Even before the Schengen agreement came into effect, most citizens of EU countries didn't require a passport to travel within the EU; they simply showed their national identity cards.

So we've now reached the situation where French citizens can travel anywhere in the EU (except the UK and Ireland) without even seeing a passport desk. They can also visit the UK and Ireland, without possessing a passport, using their national identity cards. But (because of the intransigence of our government) the only way that an individual UK citizen can travel to any other country (except Ireland) is by producing a valid 10-year passport.

Chris

[Mr Veritas]

By quickie passports I think you mean "British Visitors Passports",which were quick to obtain (from a Post Office) and lasted just one year.
These ran from 1961 to 1995,and were dropped because they did not contain enough information.
As dzug says,your husband will need a full passport.
The passport service aims to return passports within 3 weeks (but this CAN take considerably longer) in busy holiday periods.
This page from the passport service deal with urgen passport applications
By quickie passports I think you mean "British Visitors Passports",which were quick to obtain (from a Post Office) and lasted just one year.
These ran from 1961 to 1995,and were dropped because they did not contain enough information.
As dzug says,your husband will need a full passport.
The passport service aims to return passports within 3 weeks (but this CAN take considerably longer) in busy holiday periods.
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport /Passports/howlongittakesandurgentappplication s/DG_174149

[Mr Veritas]

PS:~
The link above(from the passport service) explains what to do if your application is urgent.