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At peak times – including April – HM Passport Office can receive 250,000 applications per week. During the strike, I calculate that more than one million passport applications are likely.
On 1 April 2011, responsibility for British passports issued overseas passed from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to IPS. The printing of passports issued overseas had been done in the UK since August 2011, and the administrative work performed at these RPPCs was repatriated to the UK during the 2013–14 financial year. From April 2014 ...
If you renew your passport early, any time on your current passport’s validity will not be added to the 10-year validity of your new passport, so those who currently have more time on their ...
[9] [10] [11] Passports are produced in Poland, due to it being more cost efficient, and printed with personal details in the United Kingdom, [55] either at a central printing facility, or, in the case of urgent, fast-tracked or premium-service passports, which are 34 or 50 pages, locally printed at application-processing centres in the UK.
The current issue British Certificate of Travel are black, and the document cover is an acrylic-coated, paper-based substrate. [6] The blue passport sports the seal of the Privy Council emblazoned in the centre of the front cover. The name of the document – "CERTIFICATE OF TRAVEL" and its French equivalent "CERTIFICAT DE VOYAGE" are inscribed ...
Processing time for U.S. passports is going down after a surge in requests created a backlog in the system.
The 17-day Easter break is a particularly busy time for British travellers and an estimated 6.4 million trips will be made from the UK to Europe – 1.6 million over the bank holiday weekend alone.
Sarah Rapson, the Registrar General for England and Wales, was appointed as interim director general of UK Visas and Immigration. Her position was made permanent on 5 March 2014. Marc Owen, former senior director of national and international operations, is the current director for visas and citizenship. [5]