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Couldn't think where else to post this. Yesterday we saw the only other British person we know here, haven't seen him for a couple of years. He asked if we'd exchanged our passports for blue ones; he'd just applied for and received his after reading somewhere on facebook that burgundy passports had to be exchanged for blue ones before some time in 2022 after which they would no longer be valid even if, like ours, they don't expire till 2026. We'd not heard anything about this and when we got home looked for more information online. On the government's passport application site it says: 'If your passport is burgundy or has ‘European Union’ on the cover, you can continue to use it until it expires'. So it appears that, unless the government site is telling porkies, our friend has needlessly spent time and money on an unnecessary exchange, all because of seeing something on facebook. If anyone knows otherwise, please let me know!
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It just goes to show how daft people can be.

They’ll believe what they see on this Facebook thing or Twatter ........ and think that it’s ‘gospel’.

Just as easy to access an official site for (something approaching) the truth.

And almost as good, to ask a question on here, where you’ll get pretty damm close to the proper answer.

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