I know how frustrating it is for all of you. My son’s first passport was submitted on the 8th January, and it only got approved yesterday, so now waiting on another update. All the other passports I did at the same time came back within 3 weeks, that was 3 renewals and another child’s first passport. We fly in like 12 days. They really need to sort the system as passports shouldn’t be taking this long surely.