Hi thanks for the reply.

It's my first passport so more stringent checks are done I believe and takes much longer than a simple renewal. My mum, for example, put a renewal application in 12 days ago and it arrived on Friday.

Hi folks, I live in the North of Ireland and currently in the process of obtaining my first passport, I work in the South and was told I would be travelling to Germany in the summer to work. My application has now moved on to "Your application is being processed", after spending about 5 weeks at "we...