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Read timelines from recent UK passport applicants to give you a good idea of how quick passports are being processed.
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1st Adult Passport
Type of Application:
First UK Adult Passport
Passport Office:
Corby
Photo Method
Used a Photo-Me photo booth
Submission Date:
10-05-2024
Date Received:
15-05-2024
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
Very smooth experience.
Application history
Received :15 May 2024
Passport printed 14 May 2024
Application approved 3 May 2024
Documents received 10 May 2024 ( took me a few days to send them and it was also a bank holiday weekend)
Application received 1 May 2024
Identity details received 1 May 2024
Email sent to person confirming your identity 30 April 2024
Ask someone to confirm your identity 30 April 2024
Application submitted 30 April 2024
So it only took 5 days from the moment they received the documents to have the new passport in my hand.
Type of Application:
First UK Adult Passport
Passport Office:
Newport
Photo Method
Used a Photo-Me photo booth
Submission Date:
01-05-2024
Date Received:
14-05-2024
Overall Experience:
4 Star – Easy
Adult Renewal Passport
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Corby
Photo Method
Took it myself on my phone
Submission Date:
12-05-2024
Date Received:
20-05-2024
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
quick fast service
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Newport
Photo Method
Took it myself on my phone
Submission Date:
10-05-2024
Date Received:
17-05-2024
Overall Experience:
4 Star – Easy
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Hemel Hempstead
Photo Method
Used a different photo booth (Not Photo-Me)
Submission Date:
14-05-2024
Date Received:
21-05-2024
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
Renewed 2 adults and a child super easy to apply online and send the photo using the code from the booth photos. Very easy from start to finish and updated with email and texts at every stage. Total time for all 3 including a name change 7 days!
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1st Child Passport
Type of Application:
First Child Passport
Passport Office:
Hemel Hempstead
Photo Method
Used a different photo booth (Not Photo-Me)
Submission Date:
07-05-2024
Date Received:
16-05-2024
Overall Experience:
Please Rate out of 5
Comments:
– Submitted application for 2x kids first passports 7th May
– Identity confirmed 8th May
– Sent docs Royal Mail Next Day delivery 8th May
– Docs confirmed as received 13th May
– First application approved 14th May
– First application printed 15th May
– First application delivered 16th May
I posted both birth certificates together with PEX references on the front of the envelope (as HMPO website advises). The first passport came back in just over a week, but had to call HMPO to ask about the progress of the second application as it remained as ‘please sent your documents’. During the call, they ‘linked’ the applications together, then the second application was processed as quickly as the first. Second passport received today 21st May.
Type of Application:
First Child Passport
Passport Office:
Corby
Photo Method
Took it myself on my phone
Submission Date:
07-05-2024
Date Received:
22-05-2024
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
Would have probably been even quicker if it wasn’t for the fact I didn’t manage to get identity confirmed until Friday evening so documents didn’t arrive at HMPO until Friday late afternoon.
Child Renewal
Type of Application:
Child Renewal
Passport Office:
Corby
Photo Method
Took it myself on my phone
Submission Date:
12-05-2024
Date Received:
21-05-2024
Overall Experience:
Please Rate out of 5
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