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Adult Renewal Passport
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Hemel Hempstead
Submission Date:
22-07-2023
Date Received:
02-08-2023
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
8 working days from submission to delivery- very easy and quick despite having to resubmit selfie
Delivered 2 August 2023
Passport printed 1 August 2023
Application approved 8:04pm on 31 July 2023
New photo received 8:03pm on 31 July 2023
Photo rejected 6:30pm on 31 July 2023
Documents received 12:12am on 26 July 2023
Application received 6:16pm on 22 July 2023
Application submitted 6:15pm on 22 July 2023
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Not Sure
Submission Date:
24-07-2023
Date Received:
02-08-2023
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
Apply online, and immediately post your old passport using next day postal delivery service. I applied on a Sunday evening, posted old passport next day on Monday…and received new passport after 7 ‘working days’….excluding ‘weekend days’. New passport arrived super early in the morning, before 8am.
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Durham
Submission Date:
20-07-2023
Date Received:
02-08-2023
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
Very efficient. But Government web site very misleading in saying assume 10 weeks!
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Corby
Submission Date:
23-07-2023
Date Received:
02-08-2023
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
Passport printed 7:17am on 1 August 2023
Application approved 7:48pm on 31 July 2023
Documents received 7:18am on 26 July 2023
Application received 1:40pm on 23 July 2023
Application submitted 1:39pm on 23 July 2023
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1st Child Passport
Type of Application:
First Child Passport
Passport Office:
Corby
Submission Date:
15-07-2023
Date Received:
02-08-2023
Overall Experience:
4 Star – Easy
Comments:
2 kids first passports applications – one documentation was not tracked by royal mail even tho both were sent signed for (little worry as it took 10days to acknowledge receipt of documentation) Luckily the passport office with the whole process kept both applications together, which I am very thankful for.
Passport received 2/8/23
Passport printed 7:17am on 1 August 2023
Application approved 4:49pm on 31 July 2023
Documents received 11:15pm on 25 July 2023
Documents sent 15 July 2023 (signed for)
Application received 4:26pm on 15 July 2023
Identity details received 4:26pm on 15 July 2023
Email sent to person confirming your identity 3:30pm on 15 July 2023
Ask someone to confirm your identity 3:26pm on 15 July 2023
Application submitted 3:26pm on 15 July 2023
Child Renewal
Type of Application:
Child Renewal
Passport Office:
Hemel Hempstead
Submission Date:
24-07-2023
Date Received:
03-08-2023
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
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