1st Adult Passport
Submission Date
2022-02-25
Date Received
2022-04-01
Experience:
3 Star – Average
Application history
Selected Delivery Date as 01/04/2022
Confirmed with TNT on 31 March 2022
Passport printed 2:27pm on 30 March 2022
Application approved 12:57pm on 23 March 2022
Identity details received 4:39pm on 18 March 2022
Email sent to person confirming your identity 3:21pm on 18 March 2022
Ask someone to confirm your identity 2:40pm on 18 March 2022
Documents received 12:04pm on 15 March 2022 (Document sent and confirmed delivered on 28/02/2022)
Application received 3:14pm on 25 February 2022
Identity details received 3:14pm on 25 February 2022
Email sent to person confirming your identity 3:03pm on 25 February 2022
Ask someone to confirm your identity 12:47pm on 25 February 2022
Application submitted 12:47pm on 25 February 2022
Adult Renewal Passport
Submission Date
2022-03-05
Date Received
2022-04-01
Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Easy to renew online. Applied on 5th March and sent old passport straight away (via Royal Mail track and trace). Even though this was received on 7th March the first message from the passport office saying they had received documents was on 22nd March. The passport was approved the next day on 23th March. On the 29th March old passport was received back. Then it took until 31st March for the passport to get printed. Received passport (via TNT) the next day on 1st April.
Submission Date
2022-03-11
Date Received
2022-04-01
Experience:
4 Star – Easy
Nervous with tickets booked but a smooth process all in all
Submission Date
2022-02-26
Date Received
2022-03-31
Experience:
3 Star – Average
Documents took ages to be marked as received but delivery was quick once the new passport was printed
Submission Date
2022-03-14
Date Received
2022-04-01
Experience:
4 Star – Easy
Passport received 01 April 2022
Passport printed 28 March 2022
Application approved 23 March 2022
Documents received 20 March 2022
Application received 14 March 2022
Application submitted 14 March 2022
Submission Date
2022-03-11
Date Received
2022-04-01
Experience:
4 Star – Easy
Refused first photo
Submission Date
2022-02-07
Date Received
2022-04-01
Experience:
4 Star – Easy
Although it looks a long time, I did not send my old passport off then. They received the documents on Monday 14th March, and then the process began and arrived with me the morning of April 1st.
Submission Date
2022-02-28
Date Received
2022-04-01
Experience:
3 Star – Average
Sent my passport off by recorded delivery as soon as I made the application on 28/2. The passport tracking system didn’t update with ‘documents received’ until 17/3. TNT tried to deliver twice to the wrong block on 30/3 and 31/3 (we have a problematic post code), finally got it on the third attempt 1/4. Still awaiting return of my other (foreign) passport.
Submission Date
2022-03-14
Date Received
2022-04-01
Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Luck of the draw, 15 working days.
Submission Date
2022-03-12
Date Received
2022-03-29
Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
No dispatch notification on the tracker. Passport just turned up.
Submission Date
2022-03-04
Date Received
2022-03-31
Experience:
4 Star – Easy
Application was simple to send off with digital photo, old passport was received the next working day but took 2 weeks to be scanned. Overall not a bad experience was simple enough.
1st Child Passport
Submission Date
2022-02-24
Date Received
2022-04-01
Experience:
2 Star – Stressful
Submitted earlier than the current average wait times. Submitted application 24th February as planned to fly on 5th April. On 28th March we got a message saying the passport had been printed and would be transferred to the courier “within a few days”. Heard nothing so on the fourth day phoned the passport advice line. It was very much “computer says no”, the lady said she has no way of tracking it and sorry but she cannot help us in any way. I asked if we’d just have to wait and see if it turned up and if it didn’t turn up we wouldn’t be able to travel so she said yes that’s right. I also asked her to confirm we would definitely get a message when the passport had been dispatched and she said yes definitely. In the meantime I read lots of negative online reviews about TNT the courier and them losing passports which didn’t fill me with much hope, The passport was then unexpectedly delivered the following day (day 5 after being printed). We were just so relieved at this point to have received it but it isn’t great that we received no notification that it had been dispatched (and have checked Junk, spam folders etc). In fact I’d even been online to track the application 15 minutes before it was delivered and it still said the status was “passport printed” and that we had to wait to get a dispatch notification and tracking info. It still says that now! The time that it took to get the passport was not the issue, it’s the poor communication throughout the process that needs to be improved. It caused a lot of (unnecessary) worry and anxiety for the family as nobody was telling us anything (and if they did, it was wrong!) and we were unsure if we would even get the passport in time to travel and if we’d have to cancel our trip last minute. Am just glad the passport eventually arrived but the communication from the passport office (and the courier) leaves a lot to be desired and needs to be improved.
(I would add that this site was helpful as I did see a few people on here who applied on the same day as me and they received theirs this week and also didn’t receive tracking info which did give me some hope that we might get the passport in time).
Submission Date
2022-03-01
Date Received
2022-04-01
Experience:
4 Star – Easy
Included 1 day delay for resubmitting photo
Child Renewal Passport
Submission Date
2022-02-10
Date Received
2022-04-02
Experience:
2 Star – Stressful
Manual processing times can be very drawn out due to huge demand at present
Submission Date
2022-03-04
Date Received
2022-04-01
Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Requested identification twice
Submission Date
2022-03-04
Date Received
2022-04-01
Experience:
2 Star – Stressful
Whether or not your photo gets approved seems to be a complete joke. Ours apparently passed the initial test but then was rejected twice.