Passports: British National (Overseas)
(asked on 21st February 2025) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average processing time is for passports for children born outside the UK.
Answered by
Seema Malhotra
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
This question was answered on 3rd March 2025
The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost
Where no further information is required, His Majesty's Passport Office advises that British passport applications from the UK will normally take around three weeks. This includes applications for children, whether they were born in the UK or overseas.