British Passport application processing timelines (only)

[sakumar1202]

Timelines -

First UK Passport after naturalisation
Location - Hemel Hempstead

Documents Received 1 July 2025 ( Same delivery as passport )
Passport Received 1 July 2025
Royal Mail message that they got my passport 30 June 2025 ( no message from HMPO on passport dispatch)
Passport Dispatched ???
Passport Printed 30 June 2025 ( email from HMPO )
Application approved 28 June 2025
Documents received 23 June 2025 ( After pushing hard on Webchat )
Application received 16 June 2025
Identity details received 16 June 2025
Email sent to person confirming your identity 16 June 2025
Ask someone to confirm your identity 16 June 2025
Application submitted 16 June 2025

Took 15 days end to end from submission of application to delivery and 8 days from document submission to delivery


Learnings - Webchat folks are unhelpful, they have templatized response, they take all your information again and look at the same portal before answering, there is no value add having them in the process. AI could do a better job now.

[NemesisUK2]

First UK passport after naturalisation - Hemel Hempstead

Supporting Documents Delivered #TBC
Passport Delivered #TBC
Passport Dispatched #TBC
Passport Printed #TBC
Application approved 07/07/2025 (I am not sure if this is the reason but pushed on Webchat morning and approved same day afternoon)
Documents acknowledged 30 June 2025 (Pushed on Webchat)
Documents delivered 25 June 2025
Documents dispatched 23 June 2025
Application received 23 June 2025
Identity details received 23 June 2025
Email sent to person confirming your identity 23 June 2025
Ask someone to confirm your identity 23 June 2025
Application submitted 23 June 2025