I took my passport application to the local post office to use the check & send service. I had read the notes in the Home Office guide regarding acceptable photographs:
. No sunglasses or tinted glasses
. Be free from reflection or glare from your glasses & frames must not cover eyes.
I have worn glasses for most of my adult life, in fact I can see next to ****** all without them. I currently wear ones with the thinnest of metal frames at the top & rimless at the bottom, with plain glass. I checked that there was no reflection / glare before I printed them.
Off I went to the Post Office & was told that these photos were unacceptable, as I was wearing glasses & I should have known that this had been in place for 2 years.
I showed them the handbook - "that's wrong" was the reply I got, so how the bh is an official handbook wrong? I did also mention that you only renew a passport every 10 years.
Even more galling was that all this was coming from a disembodied voice hidden behind a "full letterbox" [
!] & glasses.
So, an extra £5 for photos + the £8.17 check & send charge