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

[deeojay]

First UK passport after naturalisation - Hemel Hempstead

Application submitted: 10:47am on 21/06/25
Identity details received: 4:34pm on 22/06/25
Documents dispatched: 23/06/25
Documents acknowledged: 12noon on 26/06/25
Application approved: 9:50pm on 02/07/25
Passport printed: 10:09pm on 4/7/25
Passport dispatched: 9:14am on 4/7/25 (email from Royal Mail)
Passport received: 12:16pm on 04/07/25
Supporting documents received: 12:16pm on 04/07/25

All the best to those still waiting.

[NemesisUK2]

First UK passport after naturalisation - Hemel Hempstead

Supporting Documents Delivered 09/07/2025
Passport Delivered 09/07/2025
Passport Dispatched 08/07/2025
Passport Printed 08/07/2025
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

[Poliyar]

Passport printed 11 July 2025
Application approved 10 July 2025
Identity details received 9 July 2025
Email sent to person confirming your identity 9 July 2025
Person not eligible 8 July 2025 - We have received a text message that the person we shose to confirm our identity does not meet the criteria.
Documents received 20 June 2025
Application received 19 June 2025
Identity details received 19 June 2025
Email sent to person confirming your identity 19 June 2025
Ask someone to confirm your identity 19 June 2025
Application submitted 19 June 2025

[ronnie87]

First UK passport after naturalisation - Corby

Application submitted: 3:03pm on 25 June 2025
Identity details received: 4:57pm on 25 June 2025
Documents dispatched: 26 June 2025
Documents acknowledged: 8:16pm on 27 June 2025
Application approved: 5:41pm on 4 July 2025
Passport printed: 10:49pm on 7 July 2025
Passport dispatched: 12:19pm on 7 July 2025 (text message from Royal Mail)
Passport received: morning of 8 July 2025
Supporting documents received: morning of 10 July 2025

The entire process took less than the advertised 3 weeks, and all this in the middle of the summer holiday season. I'm pretty impressed