Interview For First Passport After Naturalisation

[UK007]

Application Type: First Passport
Method of application: Postal
Date of application: 31 Jul 2017
Date application received by HMPO: 01/08/2017
Date of text acknowledgement from HMPO: 03/08/2017
Text confirming passport despatched: 10/08/2017
Date of return of documents: Documents not received yet
Date of receipt of interview letter: No Interview
Date of Passport Appointment: No Interview
Date of Passport Receipt: 11 Aug 2017

First passport after naturalisation (postal naturalisation application), passport also postal without check and send, 10 working days from application and passport received without attending an interview.

Passport for: Adult
Application Type: First Passport after Naturalisation
Method of application: Check & Send
Date of application: 28 July 2017
Date application received by SMS: 02 August 2017 - "We'll contact you by 23/08 if more info or an interview is required. If not, expect your passport by this date. No further update on progress will be given."

UPDATE: SMS received today "You should receive your new passport within a few working days. We'll send your supporting documents separately" (Confused over this - does it mean I may not have an interview?)

Date of return of documents:
Date of receipt of interview letter:
Date of Passport Interview:
Passport documents received:
Passport received today:

Congratulations to "Chinho2k" & "mbfill". Passport without interview means one less hassle.
Just wonderin how come people are getting passport without an interview? Is there any update on the rules?

[Casa]

If the application is submitted through the NCS JCAP service no interview is required.

[Chinho2k]

If the application is submitted through the NCS JCAP service no interview is required.

There appears to have been a review of the rules of some sort as I did not submit my application through NCS, it was a postal application and so was the passport application which was not via check and send and I have seen one other similar situation on this forum. As secret.simon said, for once the Home Office using a common sense approach, after so many ID checks including the ceremony, why complicate things further with a passport interview.

[UK007]

There appears to have been a review of the rules of some sort as I did not submit my application through NCS, it was a postal application and so was the passport application which was not via check and send and I have seen one other similar situation on this forum. As secret.simon said, for once the Home Office using a common sense approach, after so many ID checks including the ceremony, why complicate things further with a passport interview.

Hope they use their common sense with everyone, after so many ID checks there's no need for an interview. I had my Naturalisation application done by NCS, however my passport application was done online.

[UK007]

Just to update you guys, I received my passport WITHOUT any interview
my timeline is as follows:

Application Type: First Passport after Naturalisation
Method of application: Online
Date of online application: 04 Aug 2017
Date of declaration & supporting documents posted: 07 Aug 2017
Date application received by HMPO: 08 Aug2017


Date of text acknowledgement from HMPO: None
Text confirming passport dispatched: 16/08/2017
Date of return of documents: 16/08/2017
Date of receipt of interview letter: No Interview
Date of Passport Appointment: No Interview
Date of Passport Receipt:17/08/2017