Passports: Applications

(asked on 28th June 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications are (a) outstanding and (b) remain unprocessed for more than ten weeks as of 28 June 2022.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 4th July 2022

Since April 2021, people 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.

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

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