Originally Posted by
Aviatrix
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
same way at the german consulate in strasbourg. just a small difference: they send it to you and you're required to send the old one asap. if you don't do it, they start calling you and sending you emails
