[emmaje93]

I posted earlier and ironically about an hour after I did I got a letter through the post to say that due to me having dual citizenship and as my American passport is still in my maiden name I need to get that updated first before they’ll continue with my application.

Furious doesn’t cover it, as I mentioned we’re due to fly on 5th March and there’s no appointments at the US Embassy in London until 7th March. Currently on the phone to put a complaint in, but that’s our trip out the window. Pretty sure we’ll lose our flight costs. When I called the passport office the other day they told me everything was fine with my application, it doesn’t make sense why it took them 3 weeks to send me this letter as it could have been sorted by now!!!

[emmaje93]

Really starting to panic – due to fly on 5th March, sent mine and my husbands passports off to different offices, his was a renewal and mine was a name change.

He got his back within a week, I still haven’t received mine and these are my current updates:

Application history
StatusDate
Application being processed 10:59am on 27 January 2022
Documents received 10:19am on 19 January 2022
Application received 4:56pm on 11 January 2022
Application submitted 4:55pm on 11 January 2022

The fact my application has been processing for 3 weeks now makes me worried it’s not going to come in time. I rang them twice, the first person I spoke to wasn’t very helpful, but the second person was lovely and said he’s put a note on my file to say it’s urgent but I still haven’t had any further update. Is anyone able to suggest anything I can do if I don’t get it back in time?

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