Ok anyone on here with an approaching holiday deadline & application is not moving – DO THIS. Phone the adviceline – they are next to useless for giving you any help with passport process times/deadlines etc. so ask to be put through to the PROGRESS TEAM. If they can’t put you straight through they should offer you a Progress team call back-call back may take up to 72hrs. The Progress team have additional ‘power’ they can contact the examiner looking at your case and give them the date you need your passport for. This is not guarantee but is probably the best chance you have to get it back by that date. My passport application sat at ‘processing’ for 4 weeks. After speaking to the progress team & giving them my travel date, my application was approved within 48hrs. Good luck!