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Type: First passport after naturalisation
From: UK
Method: online
Application submitted 10 Mar 2020
Ask someone to confirm your identity 10 Mar 2020
Email sent to person confirming identity 10 Mar 2020
Identity details received 10 Mar 2020
Application received 10 Mar 2020 (online)
Documents received 11 Mar 2020 (HMPO Liverpool)
Application being processed 16 Mar 2020
Application approved 1 Jul 2020
Passport printed and sent 2 Jul 2020
Passport received 6 Jul 2020
Passport colour Black
Documents Awaiting

Finally, took nearly 4 months!
Good luck everyone.

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Soo no one has been approved today?
They are really taking the piss

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I applied on 10/03/2020, the first contact i made with HMPO was on 02/06/2020.
It’s too much of a coincidence the application was allocated to an examination team on 02/06/2020, in other words they had not even looked at it until i made the first contact.

Even if they want to verify something they don’t need months, it’s just an excuse.

Someone with a sob story or someone who can shout the loudest on Twitter get their application prioritised, rest of the applications remain at the bottom of the pile.

Keep chasing on phone and twitter, good luck to you.

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Examination, it’s with the examination team, it’s with an examiner – means exactly what it sounds like. Verifying the documents you have sent which also includes getting information from other government departments.
This is the very first step of the process.

Extract from the email HMPO sent me:

Your documents were received and allocated to an examination team on 02/06/2020.
We are now waiting for your documents to be confirmed by the Home Office and we have no timescale for this process.

Unfortunately it appears that you have not met the requirements for urgent/compassionate travel and we process your application as soon as possible.

In response to the latest coronavirus measures relating to social distancing and necessary travel, HM Passport Office has reduced its staffing levels to ensure that these measures are followed. Applications and responses will take longer than usual.

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After several conversations with HMPO staff, ‘Examination’ is just a fancy word for ‘in the queue waiting to be looked at’.
Mine is stuck at ‘Examination’ stage since 02/06/2020.
Application started: 10/03/2020
Delivered: 11/03/2020
Processing started: 16/03/2020
‘Examination’: 02/06/2020

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I have given up now.
Its 105 days today, first passport after naturalisation – Liverpool office.
Contacted them via phone, twitter, email no vain, they just fob you off.

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Applied for my first adult on 10th march exactly 3 months today to Liverpool HMPO. Called the helpline today and explained my situation and why i wanted my passport urgently. Although they were sympathetic, the response i got was “sorry we cannot consider that as sympathetic reason, we can only consider if somebody is sick, and you want to travel because of that”.
What kind of logic is that? It was a waste of 20 mins on the phone. I think they haven’t even started looking at my application.
It’s been 3 months, it was well before the lockdown. i have seen people who applied more than a month later than me, have already got the passport. Don’t they follow a queue system?

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