jamaican work permit visa in expired passport

[theatreprac]

Hello

I am emailing on behalf of my girlfriend who is a jamaican national working here in the UK on a work permit. The reason behind this email is to ask the following. She reknewed her passport a couple of months ago. Her work permit visa is in her now expired old passport. Is it ok for her to fly to jamaica at the end of april for 2 weeks carrying both passports, her old and new one. And if not, would she, if she sent off her new passport to get the visa put in that receive it back in time for her vacation at the end of april.

Your clarification in this matter would be most helpful



Ian Brown

[Administrator]

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Generally, she can get by if she carries both passports at all times. So long as she is otherwise legal and she carries her new, valid passport, that is the document she will travel under.

She can carry the expired passport with all included stamps & such as a document of all her valid work permits, etc.

It will probably be more convenient for her to transfer the documents to her new passport, but it will take some time & money. Best if she does that in the long term.

However, all the documents remain legal and valid. She just needs to make sure she keeps them all on her and safe.

It would be fairly normal to have both passports in the first few months of renewal. After one or two years it might slow her down with some extra questions, but (to the best of my knowledge) there is no law that requires she pay to have all documents transferred between passports.

the Admin

[theatreprac]

Many thanks

[theatreprac]

Has anyone had any untoward probs at immigration getting back into the uk? I would be interested to hear from them and from jamaicans working in the uk with a work permit and there answers on my original posting

Thanks

[thirdwave]

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Generally, she can get by if she carries both passports at all times. So long as she is otherwise legal and she carries her new, valid passport, that is the document she will travel under.

She can carry the expired passport with all included stamps & such as a document of all her valid work permits, etc.

It will probably be more convenient for her to transfer the documents to her new passport, but it will take some time & money. Best if she does that in the long term.

However, all the documents remain legal and valid. She just needs to make sure she keeps them all on her and safe.

It would be fairly normal to have both passports in the first few months of renewal. After one or two years it might slow her down with some extra questions, but (to the best of my knowledge) there is no law that requires she pay to have all documents transferred between passports.

the Admin

Plus they have started charging 100 odd quid for transfer of visas to new travel documents nowadays