Disruption to Passport Services between 15-27th July

The British Consulate General in Madrid will be moving to brand new premises in July.

Their new offices they say will provide customers with a more modern, customer-friendly environment, with improved facilities. At the same time, they will be introducing an upgraded IT system to help provide their customers with a more efficient service.

During the period of the move and changeover of IT systems, it is anticipatedthat there will be a disruption to the passport issuing service. Therefore British passport holders who are thinking of travelling over the summer, are strongly advise you to renew their passports now to ensure that they have their new passport when it's needed.

Don’t lose out!

If you are concerned that by renewing your passport before it has expired you’ll miss out on the full 10 years validity of your current passport, you needn’t be.

The Consulate has confirmed that any passport that is sent to be renewed which still has up to 9 months validity remaining, will have the still-valid time added as an extension. So for example if you’ve got a passport that expires in October 2009 but decide to renew it May 2009, a new passport will be issued that would be valid up to October 2019 (so 10 years plus 5 months).