Originally Posted by
supermasterphil
I also think this made be a good idea for the time while you renew the regular one or are you allowed to keep the old one while the new one gets issued? Sorry, I don't remember the last time but I need to get a new one soon enough.
The way it works with the German Embassy in London is...:
- You go to see them with your old passport and whatever other paperwork they require
- You go home with your old passport while the application form, photo etc get sent off to Berlin
- When the new passport arrives from Berlin they write to you
- You either go to see them again to swap the old passport for a new one, or you post off the old one, with a prepaid Registered Post envelope, and they send you the new one more or less by return
Don't know how it works at the Einwohnermeldeamt as I haven't renewed a passport in Germany in about 30 years.