Passports

[scooterscot]

People without passports interned in Britain


From the mash:

"Amnesty International has called on the Government to free the millions of people who cannot afford to pay the bribe demanded by the UK Passport Service."

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[vetran]

2/5ths of the applications are from newly naturalised citizens.

Oh Well

[Mich the Tester]

2/3rds of the applications are from newly naturalised citizens.

Oh Well

As I understood it the passport application and renewal processes were made stricter, longer, more bureaucratic and partly outsourced by the government of the War Criminal known as Tony.

[darmstadt]

2/3rds of the applications are from newly naturalised citizens.

Oh Well

How do they know that if they haven't processed them?

[Mich the Tester]

https://www.gov.uk/overseas-passport...wing_new/adult

How long it takes
Your application will take at least 6 weeks from when it’s received by Her Majesty’s Passport Office in the UK.
Applications may take longer if:
HM Passport Office need to ask you for more information or documents
the photographs you send are rejected

...

How to apply
You must apply and pay for your passport online.
Before you start you need:
your current passport

Which means doing without my passport for at least 6 fooking weeks. How has it reached this point?

[VectraMan]

Seems to me this passport debacle should be a warning to anyone thinking of issuing new passports to 7 million people in one go.

I think it said 6 weeks when I renewed mine last year, but it took about 10 days.

[scooterscot]

Seems to me this passport debacle should be a warning to anyone thinking of issuing new passports to 7 million people in one go.

Is London becoming independent?

[Mich the Tester]

Seems to me this passport debacle should be a warning to anyone thinking of issuing new passports to 7 million people in one go.

I think it said 6 weeks when I renewed mine last year, but it took about 10 days.

Well first Tony the War Criminal made the process longer and more complicated and wouldn't give British consulates the equipment to issue passports as they had done in the past, then Dave the Clueless and his bunch shifted expat applications to the UK and cut the staff levels, and now we have huge delays and expats are expected to do without their passports for at least 6 weeks, and you can´t even pay using a European debit card.

It is utter, utter incompetence.

[vetran]

How do they know that if they haven't processed them?

one assumes they took a sample and multiplied up. or they have the experience of previous years?

maybe its a standard statistic they have to provide?

[Mich the Tester]

one assumes they took a sample and multiplied up. or they have the experience of previous years?

maybe its a standard statistic they have to provide?

WGAS whose passports they are?

FFS, the passport renewal for expats has gone from a couple of days to 'at least 6 weeks' in the last 20 years. That is just fooking incompetence at the highest level, regardless of the origin of the applications.

Mash spot on again though