{"id":2321,"date":"2015-05-09T12:30:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T17:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepassportoffice.com\/blog\/warning-over-rip-off-passport-renewing-websites\/"},"modified":"2022-02-11T12:16:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T17:16:33","slug":"warning-over-rip-off-passport-renewing-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepassportoffice.com\/blog\/warning-over-rip-off-passport-renewing-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning over rip-off <b>passport renewing<\/b> websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Warning over rip-off <b>passport renewing<\/b> websites<\/strong><br \/>\n&quot;If you need to apply or update your details for these documents, you should do so using www.gov.uk as this official site will direct you to the website you need.\u201d He said anyone who has paid out more than the \u00a372.50 for renewing a passport should get &#8230;<br \/>\n<i>Read more on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\/Warning-rip-passport-renewing-websites\/story-26110825-detail\/story.html\">Leicester Mercury<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can now get <b>your<\/b> ID, <b>passport<\/b> from the bank<\/strong><br \/>\nMajor banks will soon be taking applications for new smart card IDs, Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Tuesday. \u201cThere are several new innovations that are going to be introduced by the department to assist South Africans for smart ID cards &#8230;<br \/>\n<i>Read more on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/119017-you-can-now-get-your-id-passport-from-the-bank.html\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning over rip-off passport renewing websites &quot;If you need to apply or update your details for these documents, you should do so using www.gov.uk as this official site will direct you to the website you need.\u201d He said anyone who has paid out more than the \u00a372.50 for renewing a passport should get &#8230; Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[2909,231,1195,114,263,5082,1675,2465],"class_list":["post-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-bank","tag-id","tag-over","tag-passport","tag-renewing","tag-ripoff","tag-warning","tag-websites"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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