renewing your passport

[compp]

hi
hubbie only has a coulpe of years left on his passport, and our baby daughters photo in her passport was taken when she was only 4 months old. should we renew our passport before we get the visa stamp or is it quite easy to renew your passport from inside australia, we,ve been told it can be a real nightmare to renew british passport but dont want to renew yet if it,s easy enough to do from over there.... anyone had to renew theirs once in au ? did you have any problems ?

[lorna grennan]

Hi we have recently renewed our passports with less than 2 years on, advice from agent, before we applied for our visa. Not sure about whether it is more difficult to renew from Australia but is it not worth it getting it sorted now as the passport lasts 10 years for adults and 5 yrs for children, less hassle and one less thing to worry about! It took us less than a week to get our renewed passports back! Lorna

[compp]

hiya,
wish we had renewed before we had applied for our visa but now we have the grant you have to notify others (not sure who) that we have renewed our passport as obviously they have our passport numbers which will change if we renew it now, thats why i,m worried about renewing them

[kaz101]

Hi Compp,

We've still got 6 years on our passports (more by accident than design) so I can't help you with this one. Have you asked an agent?

Regards,
Karen