10091 Passport Theft Sparks Urgent Inquiry

Apparently according to Reuters, a consignment of 3,000 blank passports and visas destined for embassies abroad have been stolen from a security van.

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Shouldn't be too much of a problem [to paraphrase a Passport Office minion] - they all have 'chips' in which will show up as stolen when 'swiped' at UK Immigration desk.

I'm not sure I believe that its that simple.

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and the driver only nipped into the newsagents for his Daily Sport :laughs:

I was actually thinking that people who were needing to renew their passports in say Rome may have a delay in obtaining them .....

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Maybe not at UK, or EU desks, but they would work in many other places, and also be used as identity documents for identity theft crimes.