What a pallava though... But then again, it's quite lucky we have a French consulate in Edinburgh or we would have had to go all the way to London.
It started about 6 weeks ago when I made the enquiries to have a French passports for him, and have mine changed to my wedded last name. For me, no problem, I didn't really need to do anything except from bringing the marriage certificate to the Consulate on the day.
For Logan though, we first needed to have his Birth Certificate "translated" into French. This is done at the Consulate and costs nothing. We then needed to have a passport photo taken, and I was wondering how that was going to take place given all the rules about passport photos. He's not supposed to be smiling, he should be on a white background (but then I need to hold him, are they going to photoshop me out of the picture?) etc... Went into the photographer's in town and he laid Logan down on a white mat on the floor, and took the photo while standing straight over him. Easy peasy. Logan, who never smiles on photos, was in hysterics. We managed to have a photo where he is smiling a bit but not too much.
Once all this was done, we went to our double appointment, where we "applied" for our passports. It then takes 3 weeks for the passports to get done (that probably takes place in France) and then no, they don't send them to your home recorded delivery, we had to go back to Edinburgh to pick them up.
It was a beautiful day in Edinburgh on Wednesday, and as the appointment was in the afternoon, we all went in the morning as a family and had a lovely lunch outside at Cafe Marlayne.
So Logan now has a French passport, and that will be the only passport he has until he can get a Scottish passport, so his Dad says! (Scottish passports don't exist at the moment, only British!!)
Logan's passport photo!!
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