Hi Stevep27, It is so stressful, I feel for you. It took 5 days for my passport to ‘get in the sytsem’ from the date Royal mail tracking had delivered it. In the meantime I phoned and emailed ( phoning you have to hang on a while) think speaking is all important though. When you get through explain you are really desperate as you are travelling on xxxx ( maybe give a couple of days leeway as TNT aren’t brilliant) and ask for this to be noted on your application. Give them the royal mail tracking number, when they received it, and application number. They then put a note on file. When your application gets in the system the operator opening it sees your date of travel and if they can, responds accordingly. As I mentioned mine was ‘received’, processed, approved, printed and despatched on the same day as I had 5 days left before travel date. Good Luck!!