22 March 2017
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| My Emergency British Passport issued for my access into Rio, Brazil |
Continuing on with my passport thread from my last blog post…
The week after I returned from Rio de Janeiro, I followed up
with Her Majesties Passport Office (known as the HMPO) to see if there was any
possibility of reactivating my British Passport after I was told in Lima that it
was cancelled and I would have to reapply for a new one. I had my original passport returned from
Cusco and in my hands by this time (as it never made a flight to Lima). This renewal process would cost me time and
money – including the usual delays and sometimes missing mail in the Peru
postal system.
So on the Tuesday I initially email and then call to speak
to a nice natured customer support person who with a thick Irish accent told me
this was a highly unlikely outcome as he had never heard of this happening
before. However at my insistence he would
follow up internally to ask in any case.
I had no answer by the following day – Wednesday, and so I
called the HMPO again. I got a different
customer representative this time and as requested I again provided my two
relevant passport numbers. But to my
surprise upon the agent verifying these numbers, I receive the incredible news
that my original British passport was active and my Emergency Passport was
cancelled despite being stamped “Date of Expiry: 21 September 2017”!!!
As this is highly irregular, it is one I can only put down
to another miraculous recovery in answer to prayer (not unlike my wallet
recovery in Lima – see my 2016 blog post: http://welchesinperu.blogspot.pe/2016/06/a-miraculous-recovery-in-lima.html).
Be encouraged by this, as we read Psalm 57:10 “For great is your love, reaching to the heavens; your faithfulness
reaches to the skies.”
Bendiciones,
Chris
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