Does anyone have any experience of applying for a visa for GF to visit the Uk, where her passport doesn't have many pages left (4 pages left to be precise).

I am conscious that it would be prudent to apply for the visa in good time. She is not Thai, her passport still has nearly 2 years to run, but by the time she comes to travel to the Uk, she would have exited and re-entered Thailand and neighbouring countries and probably used up 3 of those 4 pages. I am thinking of taking her to the UK in May.

I can only think of renewing the passport early, or applying for extra pages (IF they do that). Otherwise I feel I might be inviting problems if I applied for the visa soon (which would be wise) and then find by the time we are due to travel she doesn't have any pages left!

I know the US Embassy will add pages at no cost. Not sure what about her country.

Can't she get a new passport? Most countires allocate passports from there embassies overseas.

Kudjap or Bust wrote:Can't she get a new passport? Most countires allocate passports from there embassies overseas.

Think arjay, a call to the Lao Embassy in BKK is the answer here. But I think you answered your own question.

Once when leaving Oz, the emigration officer alerted me to the fact that there was only 3 months remaining on my passport which would not let me stay in Singapore which requires a minimum of 6months of passport time remaining. Fortunately Singapore was the second port of call on my trip and as I was allowed to stay in Argentina the first country, I was issued with a new 10 year passport overnight by the Australian Embassy in Buenos Aires which enabled me to stay in Singapore. and proceed with my trip. Therefore Australian embassies will issue new passports in such special circumstances so there shouldn't be any problem with a filled passport.

I believe Arjay is looking for experience with Lao passports!

Thanks for the input.

It's for the GF. She usually gets a 60 day tourist visa when entering Thailand. That takes out a full page, plus another half page with the exit and re-entry stamps of Thailand and the neighbouring country. we are also visiting Malaysia next month, so that should knock out 2 or possibly 3 of her pages.

I have since checked on the British Embassy website and they say one has to have at least one double page left (her passport has 20 months left to run). So she will either have to get extra pages, or renew her passport early, whichever they can do for her.