Passports: Applications
(asked on 6th December 2022) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications were not fully processed within 10 weeks in each of the last 3 years.
Since April 2021, His Majesty’s Passport Office has advised people to allow up to 10 weeks when applying for their passport using the standard service in the UK.
Published processing times for overseas applications vary, starting from 11 weeks
The volume of printed passports for each year from 2019 where the application was not processed within ten weeks, is shown in the table below:
Year | % of standard UK applications completed in over 10 weeks | % of overseas applications completed in over 10 weeks |
2019 | 0.23% | 2.91% |
2020 | 1.75% | 42.94% |
2021 | 0.66% | 8.11% |
2022 (to 30 November) | 4.66% | 18.45% |