Passport Applications - Murcia Gazette

Download C1 Application Form for Adults over 16

All consular posts in Spain can issue an emergency passport, valid for a single journey to the United Kingdom.

The British Consulate-General in Madrid also issues full 10 year passports. Applications should be made on the relevant C1 form for adults, or C2 form for under-16s. You should enclose two passport size photographs, taken with a white background, one of which must be countersigned, and the fee. If your application is for a passport renewal, you should also include your old passport. We aim to process all routine passport applications within ten days of receipt of a fully completed application and the correct fee. We do not offer a fast track service for passports and cannot bring forward your application for a passport except in the most extreme compassionate circumstances such as a death, accident or serious injury. We would also require documentary evidence (eg a letter from a doctor) of this before agreeing to escalate your passport application.

Please read the notes and complete the application form carefully. Failure to do so may mean we return the application to you for completion. Please include your best daytime telephone contact number/s. Because we scan your signature it is important that you sign well within the signature box provided.

For further enquiries about passports for the UK, please call:

807 42 90 26 between 09:00 and 17:30. This service is provided by Abtran, calls cost €1.09 per minute. Please note, this number does not work from outside Spain, so you will need to telephone from a Spanish landline or Spanish mobile telephone.

The UK premium numbers (0906 664 1717) will service any calls from within the UK from family members of applicants residing in Spain, with enquiries regarding status updates or general enquiries. The lines were set up to assist applicants further with enquiries, who may not have access to premium numbers themselves within the countries listed above. The service is operated by ABTRAN and calls cost £1.50 per minute. They will operate between 9am - 5.30pm UK time Monday to Friday excluding UK bank holidays.

SUBMITTING APPLICATIONS
Information on where to send your application, and how long you can expect the process to take (see below)

DOCUMENTS REQUIRED

The documents you will need to include for the various types of applications.
Please note we can no longer include children on new passports issued. You should obtain a separate passport for each child. Children who are already included on passports may continue to travel with the bearer until that passport expires or the child reaches 16 years of age.

GRATIS PASSPORTS FOR THOSE BORN ON OR BEFORE 02.09.1929.

Submitting Applications

You can submit your application to us in the following ways:

In person at our office in Madrid

We accept payment in cash only. Office hours are from 08.30 to 15.00, Monday to Friday. From 18 July to 2 September our office hours are from 08.30 to 13.30. You will be given a date when your passport will be ready for collection. If you are unable to collect your own passport, or that of your child (aged under 16), you must provide the person collecting it with the receipt and written authorisation.

We are located at Paseo de Recoletos 7/9, 4º, 28004 Madrid.

By registered post (Certificado)
Applications should be sent to:
Passport Section
British Consulate-General Madrid,
Paseo de Recoletos, 7/9
28004 Madrid.

Do not send cash in the envelope. You should pay for the passport by enclosing a banker's draft (cheque bancario only from a Spanish bank) made payable to the British Consulate-General, Madrid, with your application. Please add 4 euros to cover the cost of registered return post. Please write your name clearly on the back of the draft. Personal cheques are not accepted.

APPLICATIONS FROM ANDORRA:

Applications from Andorra should be paid by giro. "Giro ordinario" may take a week to arrive while "giro telegráfico" arrives within 24 hours.
If you have any doubts about the security or speed of the postal service in your area please apply in person or by courier, otherwise we will return your passport by registered post.
We will return your passport by registered post.

By courier

Courier applications are not treated as urgent.
Please mark the form 'courier'. You will then have to contact our call centre Abtran to establish when your passport is ready, and to be given the number of your new passport to use as a reference number with the courier company. Before we will give a new passport to a courier messenger we require the name of the holder of the new passport, the address the passport is to be returned to and the passport number. If we do not have this information we will not release a passport to a courier.

We cannot organise couriers on your behalf. We do not recommend any particular company but list these two companies here as our customers use them on a regular basis. The British Consulate cannot intervene in any dispute that may arise between these companies and our customers.

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