TRAVELLERS are being urged to check their passports well in advance of their summer holidays.
Although one-year passports are no longer available, 10-year passport applications can be accepted at more than 160 post offices in the North West.
Post Office Counters clerks check applications to ensure they are correctly completed and all the relevant details are attached.
The forms are then forwarded to the Passport Agency which issues the new passport, usually within 15 days.
Bridget Friend, passport service manager for Post Office Counters, said: "The Passport Agency only phased out the one-year British Visitor Passport in December, so not everyone may be aware that they require a 10-year passport to travel abroad.
"We are concerned customers don't find their holiday plans scuppered because they leave it too late to apply for a passport."
Passports can be applied for at main post offices only, including Deansgate, Bolton, and Brackley Street, Farnworth.
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