Like many here, I’ve been quite stressed about the times and, most importantly, lack of updates/info by the Passport Office. My application was for a first adult passport after naturalisation and I just received my passport today. If it helps anyone, my process was as follows:
Passport delivered by TNT – 21 March 2022 (I never received any updates from TNT but the TNT tracker started showing my passport in their system from 18 March)
Supporting returned by Royal Mail – 16 March
Passport printed – 14 March 2022
Application approved – 11 March 2022
Application being processed – 23 February 2022
Documents received – 13 February 2022 (Royal Mail actually delivered the documents on 4 February)
Application submitted and received – 31 January 2022