A security staff will be at your entrance when you get to your chosen location.
It will make preliminary reviews– your letter of appointment, your application form filled out– and issue a number of tokens.
Take your seat and wait until your number in the waiting area is called on the screen.
Once you have your token number on the screen, go to the counter number shown.
The counter officer will then request that you submit the necessary documents and pay the surrender fee for the passport.
You will be notified of the provisional schedules and payment receipt.
In the counter, your mobile number and email address are also asked by the officer to keep you updated during the critical stages of your request.
The service is additionally charged at £1.20 + VAT and is included by default with the service. I’m not very sure whether you can opt out.
However, it is advised that text and email updates be added in order to be informed at all stages of progress.
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Surrender Indian Passport Fees in UK
The Government, in contrast to other (probably complicated) government services pricing structures. India has established fixed fees for Indian passport surrender.
The fees vary according to the date of an Indian, British or Foreign Citizen’s acquisition.
These different criteria are listed and information about the fees:
For British Citizenship before or on or before 31 May 2010. Given the Miscelleneous Service and Consular Excise, you have to pay £22. You don’t have to pay a fee for your passport surrender. VFS is charging you £7.44 inc VAT which is £29.44 for the service. GOT British Citizenship on and after 01 June 2010. In this case, the passport surrender fee is £119 and includes a £117 Embassy and a £2 consular fee. A total of £126.44 is included in VFS services inc VAT
Got UK nationality and passport also expired more than ten years ago – “Deemed Surrender Certificates” will be issued to you, costing you 20 livres plus applicable fees, including a consular surcharge of 2 £.
VFS will charge you an additional £ 1.20 plus VAT in text updates on your phone to receive SMS notifications for the progress of your request.
Cash, Debit or Credit Card (Except AMEX) allows you to pay the fees for your passport to be surrendered.
When you pay for “VF Services UK Ltd” or postal order using a bank draft.
Please note that you will be charged an extra 2 percent in credit card charges to pay by credit card. Preferably use a debit card.