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Amirun87 when did you submit your application?
I also fly on the 6/5/22 and waiting for my partners first adult passport. We’ve been waiting on processing since the 16/03/22 🙄Has anyone had any recent updates?
I’m still waiting for mine to be approved, went into processing on the 16th March. Was supposed to fly tomorrow, had to rebook but luckily we have not lost any money.
I have been told that the application has been moved to the manual system so god knows how long that takes.
We’ve rebooked for after 10 weeks since we applied in the hope that it will be approved and come by then, this is what they advertise on their website so it should all be sorted. I’m not as stressed anymore but I am still a bit worried that it won’t arrive in time for the 6th May 😢Does anyone know if you can do this for a first time adult passport, or is it still only adult renewals that they will fast track?
Amirun87
I know, I’m looking at changing my holiday to the 6th-7th May.
The only reason I’m thinking of doing this is that once they’ve had it for 10 weeks, and you can prove you are travelling within a fortnight, you can have the application expedited. Mine will be 10 weeks on the 3rd May so that’s my hope 🤷🏼♀️ It might be stupid of me to do that but I need to change my holiday to go away asap as it’s difficult for me and my partner to get time off work together.I just got off the phone from that number, the guy told me that it’s not even being checked by the examiner yet as the application has been moved to a different system. He didn’t sound very positive about it even arriving within the 10 week time frame, all I can say is that this has made me feel worse.
I don’t understand how it has been processing for 3 weeks and it’s not even been looked at by the examiner 🙄
I also asked if I’d be able to collect the passport and was told this won’t be possible as it’s not an urgent application.
My local MP contacted them last week and still nothing has been done, looking like I won’t even be able to go away in May now.Amirun87
Did they not explain why that had happened? That seems a bit ridiculous if you applied online!I’m currently on hold to the phone number 0300 123 1973 as people have said they are generally more helpful. Any advice as to what I should say for them to help me? I’m desperate for it to be approved soon, we’ve already had to change the holiday and I don’t want to have to cancel it again. But my application has been processing since the 16th March 😕
Passportpanic, what type of application was yours?
I’m waiting on a first time adult passport and trying to see any timelines that mine could be the same asBeen waiting for my partner’s passport since the 22nd Feb.
It went to processing on the 16th March and still waiting. We were due to fly next Saturday (9th April) but have decided to rebook to beginning of May which will be 10 weeks since we submitted the passport (praying it comes by then as well🙈).
I’ve rang multiple times, my MP has emailed them, the person on the phone the other day told me she would make a note that it is needed urgently and still nothing.
All I can say is that it is a shambles. It stated 5 weeks when we applied, it’s been almost 6 and it’s not even been approved yet.
Some clearly take longe than others, but I was hoping we’d be lucky enough for it to turn up on time. I’ll never leave it this late again!Well I’ve been waiting to speak to them via a call back since Thursday. I might ring them tonight but I have a feeling they’ll just tell me I need to wait for another call back.
I’m still waiting for it to be approved, jr went to processing on the 16/03/22 and I need it for the 9th April. Getting very stressed and worried now 🙁Does anyone know if you can ring up and request to pick up the passport before they send it out when it gets approved?
I’m thinking my passport is going to be approved/printed the week I go away but that won’t leave enough time to get it delivered to me so I was thinking whether it would be worth trying to pick it up if I can.Just had an update today.
So my timeline is now this:
Documents received 8:06am on 15 March
Application received 4:32pm on 22 Feb
Identity details received 4:31pm on 22 Feb
Email sent to person confirming your identity 3:55pm on 22 Feb
Ask someone to confirm your identity 3:52pm on 22 Feb
Application submitted 3:52pm on 22 FebIt’s taken 14 working days for them to update the application to say they have received the documents. I’m less worried now though.
Does anyone have an idea of how long it takes to approve the passport from this stage?
