Recent UK Passport Applicant Timelines

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New passport received on 10 June 2026 Supporting documents received 9 June 2026 Passport printed on 8 June 2026 Application approved on 7 June 2026 I contacted the passport office by online chat to explain that my name was correct in the machine readable part of passport. 6 July 2026 I was told that my name in my foreign passport was wrong, and I must get the name changed in my foreign passport on 6 June 2026 Passport office acknowledged documents received on 1 June 2026 According to post office tracking, documents arrived at passport office on 26 May 2026 Application received on 21 May 2026 Identity details received on 21 May 2026 Email sent to person confirming your identity on 21 May 2026 Ask someone to confirm your identity on 21 May 2026 Application submitted on 21 May 2026

Don't sent documents on Fridays before Bank holidays. Also RM has to hold deliveries for Saturdays. It took then a week after RM stated delivered to be shown as received by HM PO, I asked in WebChat whether it is normal nothing was shown after a week. 5min after the chat the application tracker updated to received. Submitted: 20th May ID confirmed and documents sent off on 22nd of May Documents delivered on 26th of May Documents received on 2nd June Application approved 8th of June 4:35pm Passport printed 9th of June 4:11pm (no further update from now on in the app) Passport dispatched on 10th of June as per HM PO, using PEX number to check for tracking in RM stating delivery on 12th June Passport delivered around 11.30am on 11th (RM text received in the morning for the timeslot, this was the first message from RM, confirmed a 2nd time 2 hrs later before final text with delivery notification. I was still on a bus couple of hours frome home) Supporting documents supposed to be delivered on 13th of June, HM PO email received with tracking number on the 11th June at 4pm.

Very smooth, straightforward and quick process. However, HMPO used the thinnest possible envelope for returning my supporting documents and my Certificate of Naturalisation got crumpled. HMPO should be using hard backed envelopes for returning valuable documents.

Very stressful to send important and very expensive and hard to replace documents such as naturalisation certificates by post. Would be much better if the whole process was done with in person appointments like in my home country where it's done to the police passport local department and it takes a week to collect from the station with no risk of anything getting lost by post.

First adult passport, applied day after getting naturalisation. Passport printed 7:54pm on 4 June 2026 Application approved 11:25am on 4 June 2026 Documents received 11:07am on 28 May 2026 Application received 5:26pm on 20 May 2026 Identity details received 5:26pm on 20 May 2026 Email sent to person confirming your identity 3:48pm on 19 May 2026 Ask someone to confirm your identity 3:37pm on 19 May 2026 Application submitted 3:37pm on 19 May 2026

Application submitted: 1st of May Documents sent: 10th of May Documents signed for: 11th of May Documents received: 15th of May Application approved: 4th of June Passport printed: 5th of June (early morning) Passport delivered: 6th of June

Passport printed 1:43pm on 18 May 2026 Application approved 12:17pm on 16 May 2026 Documents received 10:14pm on 8 May 2026 Application received 5:21pm on 6 May 2026 Identity details received 5:21pm on 6 May 2026 Email sent to person confirming your identity 4:30pm on 6 May 2026 Ask someone to confirm your identity 4:23pm on 6 May 2026 Application submitted 4:23pm on 6 May 2026

Submission: 30th April Documents Recieved: 5th May Approved: 19th May Printed: 20th May Delivered: 21st May

Application Submitted 24th April Documents Sent 30th April Documents Received 5th May Application Approved 12th May Passport Printed 13th May Delivered 14th May

Never had a passport previously and was expecting to need an interview but my application was approved without one. - Application submitted 11:00am on 27 April 2026 - Ask someone to confirm your identity 11:00am on 27 April 2026 - Email sent to person confirming your identity 11:03am on 27 April 2026 - Identity details received 1:21pm on 30 April 2026 - Application received 1:21pm on 30 April 2026 - Documents received 4:06pm on 7 May 2026 - Application approved 2:51pm on 14 May 2026 - Passport printed 8:38am on 15 May 2026 - Passport received next day on 16 May 2026

Hi I took 5 days from receiving documents to application approved