Hi everyone!
We applied for our sons first passport on the 15th May, sent the documents on the 16th June and they were received on the 24th June at the Durham office.
What are the odds that we have a passport before the 9th July?
Many thanks!
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Child first passport
cswe · 25 Jun 2020, 12:37
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This has been my experience so far, I think we are currently on the same time frame, because our documents were received just a day apart. Please carry on posting if anything changes, it gives me an idea on when my daughters will be here.
Application being processed
12:53pm on 25 June 2020
Documents received
9:02am on 25 June 2020
Application received
11:13am on 18 June 2020
Identity details received
11:13am on 18 June 2020
Email sent to person confirming your identity
10:54am on 18 June 2020
Ask someone to confirm your identity
10:47am on 18 June 2020
Application submitted
10:47am on 18 June 2020
Just received a text, application approved. I wonder if twitter helped??
@Lynn19778 Oh wow! Well done! I bet that is a relief for you now!
Finally spoke to someone at Glasgow.
My sons application hasn’t progressed because I made the application and not his mother since we are not married.
Even though it is a renewal and they can see his birth cerficate from his application in 2015 they cannot accept this, so now I have to wait 3-5 working days for a letter to come to then send his full birth certificate back.
My son has my name, both mum and me have passports what a absolute f’ing joke!
@Daddybear35 that's awful. That is just delaying it more. However I'm assuming once they receive documentation they will continue with approval
@lynn1978 told the guy on the phone I will be taking it to Glasgow by hand when it comes absolutely ragin
When do you go away?
@lynn1978 27th july
I think you will be fine. They will surely need to fastrack you through!
1st child passport to Durham.
Application received 13th May.
Docs received 22nd May.
Processing 28th May.
Approved today - 26th June.
This was after 3 direct messages on Twitter begging for help.. hopefully passport should arrive next week so if we do have to go away, we can.
That’s brilliant news! Well done!
I’ve just sent them a DM on Twitter, hoping it will help!
Hi!
We applied on 12th of June for the 1st passport.
On the 17th Of June they’ve received all docs and since the 18th of June application is being processed ..
No news since that time
Hi @DianaL Please keep us updated with you progress and when you reach the next stage, I am 6 days behind you.
Application history pages.view.applicationHistory.status
pages.view.applicationHistory.date
Application being processed 8:39am on 1 June 2020
Documents received 1:45pm on 29 May 2020
Use paper form to confirm identity 3:42am on 17 May 2020
Ask someone to confirm your identity 3:38am on 17 May 2020
Application submitted 3:38am on 17 May 2020
....still waiting
Applied for child first passport from Germany, it went to the Liverpool office
Still waiting.
Application being processed 8:00pm on 15 June 2020
Documents received 2:44pm on 15 June 2020 (they were tracked delivery and actually arrived 1st June)
Application received 12:44pm on 29 May 2020
Identity details received 12:43pm on 29 May 2020
Email sent to person confirming your identity 10:47am on 29 May 2020
Ask someone to confirm your identity 2:40pm on 28 May 2020
Application submitted 2:40pm on 28 May 2020
Durham received my application on June 04. I sent an online track message and was told that it is now being looked at. Has anyone experienced this message and if so does it mean it will be processed soon? Getting worried now as flying on the 1st aug. This is the first time I have taken my children away. We all have a passport now but bar one. it keeps we awake at night.
My child’s first passport has been approved today (Peterboruogh) after submitting on 31st May. I will post a full timeline when we receive it.
With submission on the 12th of June, we received approval today !
Now waiting for the print and post!
It's in the post!! Yay!
So my sons renewal arrived this morning!! Woohoo!!
Paper application sent 29th May
Text to say it’s been received 01st June
Emailed 26th June - waiting to be checked
Sent a Tweet 3rd July to chase
Email received 6th July to say it’s sent for printing
Text received 7th July to Say it’s being sent
Received black passport this morning at 7:45
Can anyone share their experience l,except the new passport, how long did it take you to get supporting documents?
At an impasse with someone at the Peterborough office for my daughter's first passport application.
I was born in NZ, British parents, first moved to the UK in 1986, have had British passports since I can remember. Husband was born in France. I didn't change my surname when I got married. My surname is the same on my passport as on my daughter's birth certificate. It is also the same as my parents' surname.
Someone in Peterborough has decided that my passport, my birth certificate, my parents' passport details, and our son's passport details (yes, they issued a passport to our son), are not proof enough that my daughter is British so her application is on hold.
To make matters worse, I've spoken with 4 different people at the passport office over the phone, and all 4 have said that my passport alone is sufficient proof, but no one will intervene and take her application from the examiner that it's sitting with.
Seeing as husband is French and I'm at this impasse with HMPO, decided I'd register daughter under settled status scheme. The Home Office have refused to do so because (drum roll please).... They said she is British.
Ours sons passport has finally been approved, yesterday.
We got our passport yesterday! Wihoooo!!!
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