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1st Adult Passport
Type of Application:
First UK Adult Passport With Interview
Passport Office:
Hemel Hempstead
Submission Date:
18-12-2023
Date Received:
06-01-2024
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
18th December application submitted.
19th December identity confirmed.
28th December documents sent.
5th January phone interview.
6th January passport receipt.
Passport Office:
Corby
Submission Date:
08-12-2023
Date Received:
03-01-2024
Overall Experience:
4 Star – Easy
Comments:
My passport and my documents were in different envelopes but arrived the same day.
Type of Application:
First UK Adult Passport
Passport Office:
Corby
Submission Date:
03-01-2024
Date Received:
06-01-2024
Overall Experience:
4 Star – Easy
Adult Renewal Passport
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Corby
Submission Date:
27-12-2023
Date Received:
05-01-2024
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
Application submitted – 3:14pm 27th December 2023
Application received – 3:15pm 27th December 2023
Documents recieved – 7:32pm 28th December 2023
Application approved – 9:45pm 3rd January 2024
Passport printed – 5:13am 4th January 2024
Passport recieved – 10:45am 5th January 2024
Seemless and efficient process, despite the bank holiday only took slight over a week from start to finish.
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Corby
Submission Date:
29-12-2023
Date Received:
05-01-2024
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
Extremely efficient, even if Royal Mail failed to deliver the old passport to the Passport Office next day as paid for.
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Hemel Hempstead
Submission Date:
30-12-2023
Date Received:
05-01-2024
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
Got my new passport photo taken at a local post office — I tried to use the little booth, but the guy behind the desk said that the booth was no longer functional and that I had to stand behind the counter against this white board he pulled down in front of the vape stand. He then took out a DSLR camera and took my photo. It was all pretty unprofessional seeming, but he gave me a little code which I used when applying for my new passport online. It saved me from having to manually scan my new passport photos and upload them to my PC, so when I input the little code into the passport office’s website my photo automatically came up.
Overall, I was impressed with the automatic nature of the whole process — tracking numbers, emails when the passport office received my old passport, emails when they had printed my new passport, and emails when they sent the pass port out. But I was most impressed the whole thing took less than a week. It would probably have been even quicker had I not applied on December 30 — a Saturday, and two days before New Year’s day. So they probably only started dealing with my passport on the Tuesday (2nd January), meaning this was effectively a 3-day turnaround. I thought it would be a month.
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Hemel Hempstead
Submission Date:
27-12-2023
Date Received:
05-01-2024
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Hemel Hempstead
Submission Date:
02-01-2024
Date Received:
05-01-2024
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
No issues – follow photo guide lines in detail – online for very easy
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Corby
Submission Date:
01-01-2024
Date Received:
06-01-2024
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Hemel Hempstead
Submission Date:
30-12-2023
Date Received:
06-01-2024
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Corby
Submission Date:
02-01-2024
Date Received:
06-01-2024
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
Applied online with digital image code 02.01.24, sent old Passport 03.01.24 Royal Mail Special Delivery, received at Corby 04.01.24. Application approved and new passport received 06.01.24 using secure delivery option.
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Corby
Submission Date:
28-12-2023
Date Received:
06-01-2024
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
Very fast and it included the New Year weekend.
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Hemel Hempstead
Submission Date:
29-12-2023
Date Received:
06-01-2024
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Durham
Submission Date:
28-12-2023
Date Received:
06-01-2024
Overall Experience:
Please Rate out of 5
Comments:
I have done it through the post office . Straightforward service . The passport office kept me posted via messages and was quick .
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Durham
Submission Date:
28-12-2023
Date Received:
06-01-2024
Overall Experience:
Please Rate out of 5
Comments:
I have done it through the post office . Straightforward service . The passport office kept me posted via messages and was quick .
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Lost or Stolen Passport Application
Type of Application:
Lost/Stolen Passport
Passport Office:
Corby
Submission Date:
30-12-2023
Date Received:
06-01-2024
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
1st Child Passport
Type of Application:
First Child Passport
Passport Office:
Corby
Submission Date:
30-11-2023
Date Received:
08-12-2023
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
Unbelievably fast. First Child Passport, Father (Naturalised) British Citizen, Mother EU Settled Status.
The application was made through the mother automatically as per online instructions. We only sent the birth certificate of the child and mother’s settled status email she received. You can also just send a piece of paper with the settled status number.
30 November – application submitted
30 November – counter signatory confirmed
1 December – documents sent next day delivery
4 December – documents received
7 December – Application approved and passport printed
8 December – Passport received
Child Renewal
Type of Application:
Child Renewal
Passport Office:
Hemel Hempstead
Submission Date:
29-12-2023
Date Received:
06-01-2024
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
Requested renewal late Friday, posted the old passport on Saturday morning which was delivered on Tuesday due to the Bank Holiday and arrived back today (6th Jan) Very impressed with the turnaround time.
Type of Application:
Child Renewal
Passport Office:
Corby
Submission Date:
02-01-2024
Date Received:
06-01-2024
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
Excellent service, 1 week from submission, even over a holiday weekend.
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