vicks1
2014-07-02 16:04:32 UTC
This is a bit funny. I had posted a question in June - Use of unused Schengen visa to travel to Switzerland. Based on that I travelled to Norway and faced another problem. Some background:
- I have an Indian passport issued in 2005 and expiring in May 2015. The photo taken in 2005 for the passport shows a very skinny version of me.
- Currently I have put on a lot of weight and hence the current passport photo has significant differences, mostly in fat but facial features are the same.
- I have a recent photo on my UK residence permit issued in 2013, which usually helps me with the passport at border control.
- I have travelled back and forth between the UK and India for the past three years with the same difference in appearance - but never faced any problem.
This is what happened in Norway at border control:
- I provided my passport with a valid Schengen visa (type C multiple- entry, expiring in October 2014) and my UK residence permit to the Immigration officer and he asked me a few questions on my purpose of travel and other basic stuff.
- Then he moved on to the difference in appearance: my current appearance versus the photo in the passport. This is when the doubt started building.
- He then looked at me again and again - sideways, up, down - comparing with my UK residence permit, previous photos on visas on the passport.
- He called upon other two officers to look at my situation and everybody had the same doubts about my appearance. They would look at the recent UK residence permit but again go back to the passport photo and ponder what to do with me.
- I tried to build my case by providing other photographic proofs and my return ticket UK - India PAN card (it has an old photo of me from 2007), my Indian driving licence (new photo of me, 2011), my employer ID card (new photo, 2010) - but every time they looked at new photographic evidence, they ended up with my old photo in the passport.
- They constantly talked between themselves in local language (maybe Norwegian), which I could not understand at all. This went on for about one hour and still it was not over.
- The Immigration officers were not rude but very amazed at the difference and were looking for some way to relate me to old photo in the passport.
- Luckily another international flight arrived at that time and all officers had to make a quick decision on what to do with me.
- I was finally allowed to enter with warning to get the passport renewed as soon as possible to avoid any further issues at other countries' border control in the future.
- I had my biometric information on my UK residence permit, which I offered them to verify against mine but they said that they don't have access to UK information and that won't work in Norway.
I have more trips planned to Europe starting next week and that doesn't give me enough time to renew the passport. I might manage to get through other border controls similar to how I did in Norway but am worried if I get a tough border control official - I might be denied entry.
Is there any other way to prove that I am the same person who was photographed in the passport nearly nine years ago without renewing the passport?
相關內容：[長鬍鬚會導致過境問題嗎？]（http://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/21155/can-growing-a-beard-cause-problems-in-crossing-borders）
如果它是在*九*年前拍攝的，那麼一年後是否還可以續訂？僅對其進行更新是否有不利之處？
謝謝大家的投入。我在倫敦，護照續籤的處理時間定為自申請之日起至少約5-6週。我知道續簽護照是最好的選擇，但是問題主要在我下週的旅行中。我還有其他選擇可以覆蓋即將到來的旅行嗎？
@corsiKa:的缺點是（提問者認為）它花費的時間太長。提問者正在徵求意見，“下週要怎麼做，那給我足夠的時間來續簽護照”。如果印度實際上提供了及時領取護照的方式，大概的細節將受到歡迎：-)也有可能以某種方式獲得緊急旅行證件，我只是不知道該怎麼辦。
對我來說，挪威後衛似乎不善於認出你。我推測，但確實經歷過，對於您不習慣的種族識別面部特徵非常困難。這就是我覺得像“亞洲人看上去都一樣”的玩笑的來源。
[您確實需要更新護照照片]（http://tumblr.sztupy.hu/post/88257460906）
在倫敦嘗試過印度高級專員公署的護照續簽，他們提供了tatkal服務。我得到的答復是，tatkal服務的響應時間為2-3個工作日，但這僅適用於緊急醫療情況，必須在續簽申請時提供相關證明。我可以通過正常申請續簽護照，處理時間為7-10個工作日（正如他們所說），但是在其他論壇上看到，通過正常申請續簽護照實際上需要4-5週。另一種選擇是返回印度併申請tatkal服務-3天以續簽該服務。
在下週的旅行中，這次我似乎不得不再次嘗試運氣。在那之後，我有一個時間窗可以進入倫敦本身。
我將其發佈為評論，因為這純粹是猜測。如果OP獲得了指定旅行的簽證（1），他能否及時獲得簽證； （2）這會使邊境越境變得更容易，因為理論上使館已經對護照進行了審查
我不會再獲得另一張申根簽證，因為我已經持有一份申根簽證，該簽證將於2014年10月到期。但是，在正常情況下，整個簽證過程需要3天，我認為這裡不是解決方案，因為我目前申根簽證已經在去年拍攝了我的最新照片。
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哈哈，我在側邊欄熱門問題中讀到了“理智”，而不是“相同”。
假裝去挪威的印度大使館怎麼辦？這不是很道德的做法（為大使館工作人員提供臥舖和其他工作），但是您很快就會得到新的。無論如何，您的護照必須更新。
我目前在英國，即使我想假裝護照丟失也要申請一個新護照。新護照。
也許節食？
今天通過了歐洲邊境管制，沒有太多問題。但是，一旦我完成了這次旅行，在進行下一次旅行之前，我將確保我更新護照..以避免將來發生任何潛在的問題。
海外續簽護照一般很快
這就是為什麼我們現在有生物特徵護照。他們只是檢查您的指紋。