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Adult Renewal Passport
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Corby
Submission Date:
09-01-2024
Date Received:
16-01-2024
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
Did it all digitally and good updates.
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Hemel Hempstead
Submission Date:
12-01-2024
Date Received:
17-01-2024
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
Can’t believe the application was done on a Friday afternoon, posted the old passport that day too and today we thought they had returned the old one but it was the new one. Can’t believe how quick it was.
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Corby
Submission Date:
05-01-2024
Date Received:
16-01-2024
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
Application submitted – 6:39pm on 5 January 2024
Application received – 6:40pm on 5 January 2024
Old passport posted around 7pm on 5 Jan 2024 with the Post box showing collection at 7am the following morning (Sat 6 Jan). It hadn’t been collected at 1033, but did get collected before the following afternoon, so at least it was on its way over the weekend.
Documents received – 6:21pm on 10 January 2024
Application approved – 9:03am on 15 January 2024
Passport printed – 12:33am on 16 January 2024
Passport received – around 10:55am on 16 January 2024
This started off a little tense as I was filling out advanced passenger information for a ski holiday booked just before Christmas when it became clear that there wasn’t enough time left on the passport. Worse still the booking confirmation had taken weeks to arrive due to ‘IT trouble over the break’. It was three weeks before departure day.
This site gave some confidence that things might get done on time 🙂
The web form for renewal was very straightforward, and gave some positive feedback that the photo would be OK.
It took a few days longer than the expected postal time for the old passport to show up as received, which left me wishing I’d paid for a tracked service (but that would have delayed things on sending).
Then another few (working) days waiting for approval.
Things aren’t flowing straight through the process. But the queues seem manageable at 2-3 days for the receiving and approval steps.
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Corby
Submission Date:
05-01-2024
Date Received:
12-01-2024
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
Totally amazed with the ease and speed of renewal, PWT suggested 8 days but mine came in 5 working days.
Type of Application:
Adult Passport Renewal
Passport Office:
Corby
Submission Date:
07-01-2024
Date Received:
17-01-2024
Overall Experience:
4 Star – Easy
Comments:
Very easy renewal, quick and fast. Only negative was Royal Mail’s very poor tracking and proof of delivery of old passport and supporting documents.
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1st Child Passport
Type of Application:
First Child Passport
Passport Office:
Corby
Submission Date:
05-01-2024
Date Received:
16-01-2024
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Child Renewal
Type of Application:
Child Renewal
Passport Office:
Hemel Hempstead
Submission Date:
07-01-2024
Date Received:
17-01-2024
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
Type of Application:
Child Renewal
Passport Office:
Hemel Hempstead
Submission Date:
07-01-2024
Date Received:
18-01-2024
Overall Experience:
5 Star – Very Easy
Comments:
Applied 7th Jan, sent old passport away 9th Jan and been notified delivery to be tomorrow which is 18th Jan
Overseas Passport Application
Type of Application:
Adult Renewal (Overseas Application)
Passport Office:
Corby
Submission Date:
19-12-2023
Date Received:
15-01-2024
Overall Experience:
2 Star – Stressful
Comments:
Although it went through fairly smoothly I did have to send extra address information by courier as my Turkish ID doesn’t show my address despite the requirement as showing “please send 1 document from the following list showing either/or evidence of residency or address” Christmas/New year delayed my initial documents by about a week too. Found the do it yourself electronic photo system stressy too as even using a professional photographer it was impossible to know whether they would be acceptable – They were. Most stress I think was from being unable to anyone from UK passports during the process which in fact went smoother & far faster than I expected.
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