A Public and Commercial Services Union spokesman said: 'The chaos we've all seen at the borders recently is mirrored in the passport agency, where bungling ministers have cut so many jobs they can't cope with the demand.
A spokesman for the Identity and Passport Service, which has cut 315 staff in the past year said: 'The peak period for passport applications is under way, and we are reminding customers to leave at least three weeks for a renewed passport to arrive and six weeks if applying for the first time.
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I guess the emergency passport service is for emergencies. Someone booking a holiday abroad without checking their passport isn't an emergency , it's just personal cluelessness. If people overload the emergency system travel trailer kelly blue book because they are stupid, then that's their fault, not the fault of the passport service.
why do so many people need passports during this period We are told on a daily basis that the olympics is the greatest thing ever to come to the UK and the 60 odd million of us can t wait for it to arrive, we were told by Brown Blair Jowell Livingstone and Coe how lucky we were to win the bid you know that 2 billion pound one that is narer 10 so they say which will end up at over 50 billion travel trailer kelly blue book within 3 years. And now Cameron Johnson and co are all banging on about just who lucky we are and how everyone wants this WONDEFULL event UNBELIVEABLE is the word they should have used that they are staging a event that the vast majority didn t want here. Like the DOME the country told them they didn t want they built it stood in a billion sold for 7 million travel trailer kelly blue book knighthoods were handed out on this great success. So why are all these peoiple trying to get emergency passports during this period and why is the goverment travel trailer kelly blue book trying its hardest to stop people leaving the country during the OLympic period Could both labour and the conseratives got this one wrong that we didn t really travel trailer kelly blue book wnat this in the UK and the billions spent could have been better used providng sports centres football pitches cricket centres tennis centres for the peiople who need them most the ones who can t afford to go to commerical ones and for sure can t afford a ticket to go to the games. And perhaps youth centres should have been opened and swimming pools instead of the farce of the olympic park and many more other places. Its not for the people its for the few peoples EGOS thats what the olympics are about
Agree with rosswoodall and others in relation to emerg ency passports. However we had a new grandaughter 7/8 weeks ago and my daughter sent off for a passport for the baby straight away as we are going to France. Apart from the very stupid idea and money making exercise of a new bor baby needing its own passport when you ring up the passport agency nobody seems to know what they are doing or can trace the application or tell you what is happening. At the present time we are due to leave on Wednesday this week and stillhave no passport for the baby. It also nice that the union muppets have a ready mady excuse ready 'Its the cuts' - How about the truth every now and again - some of the staff we employ can't do their job
igcalsop Having been harsh about people who don't plan and then think that constitutes an emergency, I think your case is something genuine. Not sure I'd want to go abroad with an 8-week old baby but if you need a passport, then that's obviously something that couldn't travel trailer kelly blue book have been done sooner, so I hope you get it!
I think i'd be more worried if it was easy to get a passport! How can so many people need an emergency passport? Some guy had plans to go to Valencia and yet waited until the last moment to get his passport and is now complaining? Does he expect people at the office to spend their days sitting around, just so some idiots can dive in at the last minute for a passport? It's a very important, legal document - you can't just drop in at any solicitor's office travel trailer kelly blue book and get a legal document drawn up, so why would you expect the Passport Office to be any different?
I cant undersatnd travel trailer kelly blue book why so may poeple apply for their passports at the last minute. My understanding is that you can apply for a new passport 9 months before the old one expires. Why does it come as such a shock that oh i am going on holiday I suppose I better get a passport. Even without checking I know where my passport is and when it expires is it so hard to remember 2 bits of information, You know when you friends and family have birthdays juts add the experation date of your passport to your list. Just checked gov website Don't leave your passport renewal until the last minute. You can carry up to nine months validity travel trailer kelly blue book from your old passport on to your new one. Find out how to renew your passport. I think the delay is caused due to first time applicants having to have an interview while if you have had a passport travel trailer kelly blue book before you can renew by post. and it does state on the website travel trailer kelly blue book the busiest time is April to September. My advice if you are over 16 and haven't got a passport and there is the slightest chance of you going abroad in the next 10 years get a passport NOW.
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