Oh bloody hell! I hope it gets sorted out for you. On the plus side I will say when I did our ESTA’s for the US it was very very fast, hope it is for you too. Problem is you need the passport first…
I keep looking for appointments, for weeks I kept getting “no appointments available” but today I found some- in Durham and Glasgow which is not possible to realistically get to from Essex. Also I don’t know if I can turn up to an appointment if I’ve already started an application? It’s not the cost of the faster service that’s the issue, I’d have done it from the beginning, but lack of appointments!
I really want to book travel, my wife and I have had a horrible year, and we both turned 30 recently so wanted to have something for us to look forward to. If this doesn’t hurry up it looks like we won’t make the season this year to travel.