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Not personal experience but I seen on twitter some people were getting adult renewals back as quick as 24 hours. Even on the last bank holiday weekend some were getting processed. So my advice would be to reapply online now.

Think I read a few pages back that someone had a quick enough turnaround after they get their photo resubmitted. Get another photo ready now and get on to them on Tuesday morning and hopefully they can give you another option to resubmit it then.

Our daughter's FTA just went printing at 3.20pm update, so we will have the passport in time for our trip on Saturday.

Applied for two FTAs on 08/03/21, both went to 'Your Application is being processed' on 3rd of April with estimated dates of 28th April and 3rd May. Received the one due on the 28th on the 26th and should have the other one due for the 3rd on Tuesday.

Advice to anyone wanting to get in touch with passport office: Keep calling until you hear a mans voice, then you are in the queue.

They will note your travel dates, not sure what difference this makes but can't hurt. We did contact a TDs office on Friday but they told us that the passport office have suspended the TD line due to volume of requests, so not sure what to make of that.

But by all accounts it does seem to be luck of the draw at the moment, hopefully with increased staff they can start moving things along quicker for everyone.

It is extremely hard to get through on the phone line . I often question how many people they have Maning thephones some days . Took out Doughers first time passport on line app 120 days in total from when I sent in the documents. The trackers is just for show it doesn't mean much till it changes to 'processing processing'.

On our due date the trackers reset back 1 week. It's a broken system TDs not much help going by most comments

Gd luck with it . It will be totally down luck sorry to say

Passport is showIng a status printing 🤞🤞🤞.

Westcoast.... I got my husbands back less than 24 later hours back in November, applied the Wednesday afternoon and we recieved it the next day on Thursday , it was a basic online renewal. My friends one took 2 days last month. Fingers crossed for you!

Does going to the 2nd processing application stage mean anything?

Today Processing application

Your application is being processed

1 month ago

02/04/2022 Processing application

We have received your supporting documents. We are now verifying these documents.

1 month 4 days ago

29/03/2022Alert

We have received your application. You must submit your supporting documents to proceed with the application

Ugh what a mess travelling next week, was hoping it meant something was happening

You and I might think that they would verify the documents at the stage where their progress tracker says "PROCESSING APPLICATION We have received your supporting documents. We are now verifying these documents." However, others on here have moved to the next stage and been sitting at the next stage for weeks, only to be contacted as they're unhappy with one of their documents. We submitted our applications on 9th March and it went to the received and verifying your documents stage on 18th March. The progress tracker has crept relentlessly forward and it is now almost complete. It's been at the second Processing Application stage for weeks. Our estimated due date is tomorrow, 4th May, but our witness has not been contacted yet. So it will be interesting to see what happens tomorrow: will the estimated due date be put forward and the progress tracker go backward a bit?

From all I've read on here I think the progress tracker is meaningless, other than to give a record of the dates they received the application & documents. I think it is set at the start in relation to whatever the estimated due date is and it just creeps forward but doesn't seem to bear any relation to the reality of what is going on in the passport offices. We just wait and see what happens!

Anyone have any luck with calling them? I'm just getting a busy line now, nit even an answering machine.

I've been calling all morning, got the man's voice and was 35 in queue. I was waiting for 25 minutes and was number 2 in the queue and then they just hung up on me.

I got through to the passport office after 126 calls made, being on hold 3 times for over 20 minutes each time. The guy told me he'd note my travel date and hopefully the photo checker person might take it into account when ruling on the picture. All we can do now is wait for it to go through or not.

Best of luck to everyone with their passports.

I contacted Aer Lingus when I was travelling to the UK from here earlier this year, and it didn't look like my child's passport would arrive. They told me to travel with his birth cert and I'd be fine. In the end, his passport arrived so it didn't matter. You'd need to fly with Aer Lingus, though. No chance with Ryanair.

As someone else has said, thanks to all those who've posted here - it's the only place I've found with good info. Unless there's a rapid speeding up, we're in trouble for our early June trip, waiting for infant FTA.

Here's my question for now - supporting docs posted last Thursday but no mention of them being received on tracker. I thought a scan of barcode to show they'd at least made it would be fairly immediate. How long does that typically take?

Mine took 2.5 weeks before they had updated to say received - again seems to be luck of the draw as to how long that takes! Once it’s updated you should get your estimated finish date