In Reply to: Anyone had a British Passport renewed... posted by Sharon27 on Monday, 16. March 2009 at 16:37 Bali Time:
I renewed my British Passport last September and it took 4 weeks.
Another thing to remember is that your re-entry visa will also need to be renewed if it has also expired or you will need to carry both passports. I left Bali on Friday last week with my old passport (containing my RRV) and new passport and the lady at check in said that she had to telex Australia to make sure that they would accept me back into Australia. This took more than 45minutes to confirm, meanwhile it was quite a nerve wracking wait in Denpasar airport as my husband and friends all had their boarding passes etc and I was left standing with nothing. Apparently it is a new rule (I didn't have this problem last November) and the airline can be fined up to $10,000 for allowing a passenger onto a plane that does not have the correct paperwork.
I checked upon arrival in Perth and Immigration said that what they did was correct.