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This passport was cancelled early due to the holder being passed-away. Therefore personal information has not been edited except for last page. RFID data chip was unreadable, probably data has been wiped during cancellation.

British Passport : Series 22 (2010 — 2015) Biometric, 'Scenic Britain'

 
From 5 October 2010 HM Passport Office began to issue a new style of e-passport (version 2), to UK nationals. The personal details page (which includes the photograph) and the observations page have been moved to the front of the passport. The electronic chip, which includes the same information as printed on the personal data page, is on the cover.

The biometric chip and antenna will no longer be held on the observation page of these e-passports and the observation page will no longer be laminated. Passports of the new design that do not require any observations will automatically include observation to confirm that ‘There Are No Official Observations.’

The Identity & Passport Service announced that the British passport was to be redesigned. Pages of the passport will contain well-known UK scenes including the White Cliffs of Dover, the Gower Peninsula, Ben Nevis and the Giant's Causeway. There will also be new security features, namely moving the chip which stores the holder's details to the inside of the passport cover where it will no longer be visible (this gives additional physical protection as well as making it much harder to replace the chip without damage to the passport cover being spotted), a secondary image of the holder printed onto the observations page, new designs now stretching across two pages and a new transparent covering which includes several holograms to protect the holder's personal details.

Previously, all applications made in the United Kingdom were handled by the Home Office and those made overseas were handled by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (the FCO's seven regional processing centres in Düsseldorf, Hong Kong, Madrid, Paris, Pretoria, Washington and Wellington). The responsibility has been gradually transferred between December 2012 and March 2014. All passports are now handled by a central application processing centre in Liverpool, England. British passports have been printed and issued by Her Majesty's Passport Office (HMPO) in the United Kingdom since May 2015.

As to ensure that the passport, whether issued in the UK or abroad, is available to British nationals at the most economic fee possible. That is why the passport process is to come under the single authority of the Home Office as part of a 4 stage process that is already underway:

• The first part of that process was to rationalise a large number of small passport issuing posts around the world into regional hubs. This has occurred already and, as noted above, the hub for Mexico is Washington DC.
• From 1 April 2011, all policy responsibility for overseas passports transferred to the Home Office and its executive agency, the Identity & Passport Service (IPS). There will be a transitional period of two years in which existing FCO staff overseas in regional hubs will continue to process and consider applications for British passports made by British nationals overseas.
• Later this year the printing of all passports will transfer to the UK. This means that IPS will be able to maximise the benefits of economies of scale by having a centralised facility for all printing requirements. Overseas customers will have their passport application processed overseas and then printed and despatched from the central print facility in the UK - enabling them to be issued with the latest version of the British passport. This will occur within existing service levels.
• This should result in efficiencies and will provide benefits as IPS move into the fourth stage by 2013. Applications from British nationals overseas will then be submitted to and considered in the United Kingdom.

From 16/06/2014, the validity of this passport can be extended, using stamp GBR-D-02001. 



Extension stamp applied by British diplomatic posts to extend the validity of British passports for a period of 12 months from the date on which the extension is applied. Extension stamps will be applied only if there are at least three empty visa pages in the document. A note "Passport extension on page XX" will be written on the Observations page.

VARIETY II

Issued from 14/06/2011 with main difference is with oak tree leaves with acorns containing a latent image of the ICAO biometrics symbol.





Metallised area at the left side of, and beneath the holder's image containing a unique serial number which is not the same as the passport number. On the top left of the holder's image, there are a number of metallic birds containing microtext





SCENIC BRITAIN



The former weavers' cottages in Arlington Row of Bibury, Gloucestershire. The Arlington Row cottages were originally built in 1380 as a monastic wool store which was converted into a row of weavers' cottages in the 17th Century. The cloth produced there was sent to Arlington Mill.





EUROPEAN UNION

The words EUROPEAN UNION are printed at the top of British passports issued to British nationals who are considered "United Kingdom nationals for European Community purposes" (i.e. British Citizens, British Subjects with the right of abode in the UK and British Overseas Territories Citizens connected with Gibraltar). It is not included at the top of other British passports (i.e. passports issued to British Nationals (Overseas), British Overseas Citizens, British Protected Persons, non-Gibraltarian British Overseas Territories Citizens and British Subjects without the right of abode in the UK).

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