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Why you should renew your passport.
The Identity Cards Act 2006 turns your passport into a one-way ticket to control of your identity by the government. It means lifelong surveillance, and untold bureaucracy. This website, produced by the NO2ID campaign, is about how you can renew your passport and avoid being forced to register on the ID scheme database.
It's still not too late.
The UK Identity & Passport Service (UKIPS) has not yet changed passport renewal procedures, but is currently recruiting staff for its network of 69 new 'enrolment centres'. Our factsheet [hyperlinks to the right] explains how and why you should renew before things change. Download it, pass it on to your friends, or print it out and distribute it.
UKIPS hiked the price of an adult passport to £66 from 5th October 2006. Now using the 'fast-track' (one week) service to renew your passport costs £91, and using the 'premium' (one day) service costs £108. Further steep price rises can be expected as the government's ID scheme proceeds.
You can apply to renew your passport online right now at the UK Passport Service website [use the 'Launch online application form in a new browser window' link] or request that they post you a paper form to fill in yourself.
Act now. Protect yourself later.
By renewing early you send a message to the politicians and bureaucrats who think that they can take control of who we are, and to the companies that hope to make a fortune — at our expense — helping them.
You may have heard that you'll be able to opt out of having an ID card if you renew your passport before 1st January 2010. But the card is not the point. Even if you chose not to have it, you would still have to pay for it. And you will get no choice about attending an official interview, producing numerous personal documents to be recorded, and having your fingerprints and eye scans taken for the records.
"Anyone who opts out in my opinion is foolish."
— Charles Clarke, on the passing of the Identity Cards Act 2006.
Ignore the sneering.
Once you are on the Register, you will never get off until it is abolished. But you'll be exposed to all the risks and dangers of the scheme immediately. The Home Office is building the most complex and intrusive ID control system in the world. Given their atrocious track record, it will certainly go wrong.
Once you are on the Register — with or without a card — you will also be forced to keep all the details that are kept about you up to date (and sort out any government errors).
Once you are on the Register you will face penalty charges for not telling the Home Office if you move house or if any other of your registered details change.
Far from being 'foolish', renewing your passport to avoid all this is just plain common sense. In the 10 years that follow, NO2ID and many others will be working to end the ID scheme and keep Britain a free country.
"... anyone who feels strongly enough about the linkage not to want to be issued with an ID card in the initial phase will be free to surrender their existing passport and apply for a new passport before the designation order takes effect."
— Charles Clarke, on 21st March 2006.
The former Home Secretary himself said you could do it. Don't delay — his replacement may have other ideas....
Click here to download factsheet in PDF format
DOWNLOAD factsheet — 68KB PDF file
DOWNLOAD factsheet — 80KB MS Word file
***NEW*** DOWNLOAD factsheet for
British citizens abroad — 53KB MS Word file
This is an information website, produced and maintained on behalf of the NO2ID campaign — see http://www.no2id.net
Thanks to Corporate Watch and rareformnewmedia for use of factsheet graphic.
The Identity Cards Act 2006 turns your passport into a one-way ticket to control of your identity by the government. It means lifelong surveillance, and untold bureaucracy. This website, produced by the NO2ID campaign, is about how you can renew your passport and avoid being forced to register on the ID scheme database.
It's still not too late.
The UK Identity & Passport Service (UKIPS) has not yet changed passport renewal procedures, but is currently recruiting staff for its network of 69 new 'enrolment centres'. Our factsheet [hyperlinks to the right] explains how and why you should renew before things change. Download it, pass it on to your friends, or print it out and distribute it.
UKIPS hiked the price of an adult passport to £66 from 5th October 2006. Now using the 'fast-track' (one week) service to renew your passport costs £91, and using the 'premium' (one day) service costs £108. Further steep price rises can be expected as the government's ID scheme proceeds.
You can apply to renew your passport online right now at the UK Passport Service website [use the 'Launch online application form in a new browser window' link] or request that they post you a paper form to fill in yourself.
Act now. Protect yourself later.
By renewing early you send a message to the politicians and bureaucrats who think that they can take control of who we are, and to the companies that hope to make a fortune — at our expense — helping them.
You may have heard that you'll be able to opt out of having an ID card if you renew your passport before 1st January 2010. But the card is not the point. Even if you chose not to have it, you would still have to pay for it. And you will get no choice about attending an official interview, producing numerous personal documents to be recorded, and having your fingerprints and eye scans taken for the records.
"Anyone who opts out in my opinion is foolish."
— Charles Clarke, on the passing of the Identity Cards Act 2006.
Ignore the sneering.
Once you are on the Register, you will never get off until it is abolished. But you'll be exposed to all the risks and dangers of the scheme immediately. The Home Office is building the most complex and intrusive ID control system in the world. Given their atrocious track record, it will certainly go wrong.
Once you are on the Register — with or without a card — you will also be forced to keep all the details that are kept about you up to date (and sort out any government errors).
Once you are on the Register you will face penalty charges for not telling the Home Office if you move house or if any other of your registered details change.
Far from being 'foolish', renewing your passport to avoid all this is just plain common sense. In the 10 years that follow, NO2ID and many others will be working to end the ID scheme and keep Britain a free country.
"... anyone who feels strongly enough about the linkage not to want to be issued with an ID card in the initial phase will be free to surrender their existing passport and apply for a new passport before the designation order takes effect."
— Charles Clarke, on 21st March 2006.
The former Home Secretary himself said you could do it. Don't delay — his replacement may have other ideas....
Click here to download factsheet in PDF format
DOWNLOAD factsheet — 68KB PDF file
DOWNLOAD factsheet — 80KB MS Word file
***NEW*** DOWNLOAD factsheet for
British citizens abroad — 53KB MS Word file
This is an information website, produced and maintained on behalf of the NO2ID campaign — see http://www.no2id.net
Thanks to Corporate Watch and rareformnewmedia for use of factsheet graphic.
