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Sorry for late reply RE: the Twitter DM, I merely politely asked if we were likely to get it in time especially in light of the impact of the BH weekend but mentioning I could see Glasgow turnarounds were ~21 days & therefore I guessed we might be close to the top of the pile.
I really can’t tell if it made any difference because end-to-end it was 24 days from application to delivery.
HTH
CG41
Thanks all for all your help! Relieved to say the passport arrived today, timeline below
Delivered by UPS ~8:35am on 1st September (Wednesday after BH weekend)
TNT tracking showed it was scanned & out for delivery 7:01am on 1st September (Wednesday after BH weekend)
TNT acknowledged they had it for delivery ETA 1st September shortly thereafter (Wednesday after BH weekend)
Passport printed and sent 10:50am on 31 August 2021 (Tuesday immediately after BH Monday)
Application approved 12:00pm on 27 August 2021 (Friday before BH weekend)
Messaged HMPO via Twitter DM 10:41 on 27 August 2021 (Friday before BH weekend)
Documents received 12:13pm on 11 August 2021 (Wednesday)
Posted old passport ~12:45pm on 9 August 2021 (Monday)
Application received 12:05pm on 8 August 2021 (Sunday)
Application submitted 12:05pm on 8 August 2021 (Sunday)So around 24 days end-to-end … I’ve submitted the timings into the website so it should contribute to the accuracy of the algorithm …
GOOD LUCK GUYS!!! 🙂
Really grateful to those who posted above, particularly the last two contributions who’ve had a 21 day turnaround on a child renewal, as it gives me hope that the adult renewal we submitted online 8th August (documents [old passport] received 11th August, nothing else changing) may be due for imminent processing.
Like many I’ve seen on the forum, we checked passports & believed that 12+ months validity was all that was required, not also that the passport would be 3 months short of 10 years old on return. We booked a holiday for later next week, then realised the mistake & sought online renewal via the standard mechanism, not realising (a) there was a possible 10 week turnaround or (b) that we could have paid extra to go fast track.
If I can’t see the application moving into processing by lunchtime today I’m going to give their help line a call to explain the circumstances, apologise & ask if there’s anything that can be done to prioritise it.
