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Passport Office

June 2024

  • A biometric residence permit

    ‘Frightening and frustrating’ move to eVisas risks repeat of Windrush scandal, experts warn

    Concerns mount for the UK’s non-EU migrants, as even those who have lived in Britain for decades will have to provide proof of residency

May 2024

  • The biometric residence permit

    Fears of new Windrush as thousands of UK immigrants face ‘cliff edge’ visa change

    Campaigners say move to electronic permits by the end of the year is a ‘recipe for disaster’ that could leave immigrants without proof of status

April 2024

  • A UK passport

    Cost of UK passports to rise for second time in 14 months to up to £100

    Fee rises by 7% to £88.50 for adult online application, while applying by post will cost £100

September 2023

  • Someone looks at a phone displaying the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency logo

    Technical error at DVLA adds £7.50 and weeks’ delay for driving licence renewal

    Drivers have to use more costly post office or postal options because of online identity verification problem

August 2023

  • Passengers use the ePassport gates at UK border control, Stansted airport.

    Multiple passport holders in England and Wales double in decade

    Rise in dual citizenship driven by migration from EU, and uptake of additional passports after Brexit

July 2023

  • King Charles III UK passport<br>Home Secretary Suella Braverman with the new King Charles III UK passport, at the Home Office, central London. Picture date: Tuesday July 18, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Passport. Photo credit should read: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

    UK passports issued in name of King Charles III for first time

    Announcement marks first time documents have used title ‘His Majesty’ in 70 years

May 2023

  • Jenny Southan passport

    Why did I have to fly from London to Belfast to get a new UK passport?

    I was forced to make a stressful journey to the only office where I could get an appointment in a strike

April 2023

  • British passport on travel guides

    ‘I was in tears’: Briton with valid passport barred from flight over Brexit rules

  • Queues outside the passport office in Newport.

    Repeat of Passport Office delays looms after failure to address issues, say MPs

March 2023

  • People queueing outside passport office

    Passport Office workers across UK to strike for five weeks over pay

  • Nurses strike picket outside St Thomas' hospital, London, in February.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    No 10 refuses to give details of how £4bn pay deal for health workers will be funded – as it happened

February 2023

  • Liz Truss leaves her home on Sunday.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Liz Truss says it is ‘unfair’ to blame her mini-budget for interest rate hike and rules out being PM again – as it happened

    UK’s shortest-serving prime minister says she ‘learned a lot’ from time in government but does not want top job again

January 2023

  • A HMPO passport office sign.

    Tory failures blamed as Passport Office pays out record sums for delays

    Documents show ministers knew of problems with office before it was overwhelmed by post-Covid surge

December 2022

  • Michael Omidire was born in the UK and brought up in London.

    British student stranded in Kenya for three months waiting for passport

  • People queuing outside Newport Passport Office in Wales in May.

    UK passport delays affected ‘hundreds of thousands of people’ this year

August 2022

  • Renewing a passport on the UK government services web site

    Your problems, with Anna Tims
    I need to fly home from the US but can’t get my passport renewed

    I’ve been waiting for four months and all HM Passport Office will say is that it has received my old one

July 2022

  • HM Passport Office logo and blurred UK passport in the background

    Ministers knew about UK passport helpline firm’s poor performance a year ago

    French multinational was missing targets for calls and emails as far back as May 2021, documents show
  • British passport

    More than 50,000 passport applications past 10-week wait, MPs told

    Director apologises for delays and says 550,000 applications were in the system at end of June
  • New British passport on travel guides

    UK passport delays: ‘We drove 377 miles to join the queue in Glasgow’

    Processing delays and high demand leave people in UK going to great lengths to salvage holidays

June 2022

  • Close-up of the blue UK Passport

    Consumer champions
    I’m desperate after being without a UK passport for 12 weeks

    As an interpreter the delay means I cannot work abroad
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