Passports: Applications

(asked on 16th June 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to Answer of 16 June 2022 to Question 15396 on Passports, whether her Department holds a weekly breakdown of data between March and May 2022 on the processing times of UK passport (a) applications and (b) renewals.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 24th June 2022

Since April 2021, people applying for a passport have been advised to allow up to ten weeks when applying for their British passport as more than 5 million people delayed applying due to the pandemic. This guidance is in place for all applications from the UK, including those for a first British passport and renewals.

Between March and May 98.5% of UK applications processed were completed within ten weeks.

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