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Adult Renewal Passport
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Submission Date:
2022-05-04
Date Received:
2022-05-20
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
Actually posted old passport on 4/5/22, they reported receipt on 14/5.
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Liverpool (Bootle)
Submission Date:
2022-08-22
Date Received:
2022-09-07
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
Good communications
Easy online application
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Liverpool (Bootle)
Submission Date:
2022-08-21
Date Received:
2022-09-07
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
Fortunately my passport application was fast and very easy.
Seperatley I would also like to say thank you to passportwaitingtime.co.uk for your publication of other people’s experiences and waiting times.
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Durham
Submission Date:
2022-08-24
Date Received:
2022-09-06
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
Post office check and send paper application
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Liverpool (Bootle)
Submission Date:
2022-08-22
Date Received:
2022-09-07
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
Completed the form Online, and took my own digital photograph.
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Hemel Hempstead
Submission Date:
2022-09-02
Date Received:
2022-09-07
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
Faster even than the last time doing it 9 years ago. I’d heard horror stories so massively impressed at <5 days. My case was very simple though. No references or other validations. Each step of the process was done the next business day.
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Peterborough
Submission Date:
2022-06-23
Date Received:
2022-08-16
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
NOTE: Still waiting for TNT Delivery… TNT has had them for 3 weeks .. so cant blame HMPO
Royal Mail Check and Send Paper Version
No email regarding printed.. but Helpline confirmed they were printed in mid aug (phoned 7/9/2022)
1st Child Passport
Type of Application:
First Child Passport
Passport Office:
Liverpool (Bootle)
Submission Date:
2022-08-19
Date Received:
2022-09-07
Overall Experience:
4 Star – Easy
Comments:
Application process being mostly digital is a big improvement. Deducted one star because the witness verification failed but there was no feedback as to why. From the point a new person verified it it was very quick from there though.
70+ days and still waiting for simple passport renewal from Liverpool office !
Confirmed receipt of passport on 29th June ! Then sweet FA !