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Hi guys here is my application timeline:
Passport received 10:43am on 13/04/2022
Passport printed 2:17am on 08/04/2022
Application approved 9:06pm on 01/04/2022
Documents received 5:03pm on 17/03/2022
Documents sent first class recorded delivery on 04/03/2022
Application received 12:40pm on 02/03/2022
Application submitted 12:39pm on 02/03/2022Notes:
– My supporting documents were actually physically delivered by royal mail on 05/03/2022 but HMPO seems to take a long time to process the receipt of your documents.
– Something HMPO don’t tell you is that the processing time (up to 10 weeks) does not start from when they phyiscally receive the supporting documents but from when they say they’ve received them.
– The processing time also does not include any time it takes for your documents to get there.
– A lot of the employees at HMPO are very unhelpful and will tell you that they can’t give you any further information.
– You can arrange with TNT to pick up your passport from your local depot, you just need to call their number (0800 100600) and give the autonmated bot the wrong information several times and they’ll put you through to a human.
– Something else HMPO does not tell you is that once your passport is marked as “printed” there are potentially several additional days of waiting as they need to package all the passports for delivery, this means that once “printed” it is not actually ready to be dispatched yet.
– I received no information from HMPO or TNT about tracking numbers or when my passport was going to be delivered, I had to find that out myself by using TNT’s tracking page (you can enter your passport reference number to track it here: https://delivery.tnt.com/tracking).
– My passport was posted to me without them asking for my signature it was just sent through my letterbox.
– I was told by TNT that Monday – Saturday TNT drivers pick up passports throughout the day with the final collection at 5:30 PM, this means that if there is no information on your passport on their tracking page by 5:30 PM it has not yet been picked up by TNT.
