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Quite worried about by passport renewal application, especially reading how quickly others have received theirs on this site. Applied online on 28 April, but then couldn’t find my old passport, even though it’s always kept in the same place (still a mystery – still not turned up! Getting suspicious of the dog….). So had to report it lost, wait for a reference number, then write BY POST ONLY (?!) to the Hemel Hempstead passport office, which was all completed within 1.5 weeks of application. Didn’t get an acknowlegement of receipt until 23 May, over two weeks after having posted letter. Since then there has been no progress. My tracking information still says ‘we have received your old passport’ (I’m assuming they mean my letter). It’s been at that stage for 6 weeks now?? I can’t get any useful information from HMPO, and I have travel planned for 15 July! (a rescheduled concert from 2020 that I wasn’t going to bother going to but at last minute decided to try, and applied for passport with 10 weeks grace – but of course this got scuppered by not finding my old passport). Is it worth me turning up at the Hemel Hempstead passport office and waiting to be seen? Any advice – or do I just have to ride the stress wave and hope for the best?

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