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Passport office chaos as holidaymakers bring camp chairs to wait in huge queues

Queues outside Liverpool's Passport Office are so long people have brought camp chairs as they wait in the rain to be seen, while holidaymakers across the country endure airport chaos

Daily Mirror

Huge queues see people bringing camping chairs as they wait for new passports

A miserable Monday morning in the rain

Wales Online

Britons face more holiday chaos as Tory cuts could see 8,000 fewer passports processed every day

Downing Street’s decision to slash civil service jobs will cause ‘huge delays’ for people accessing service, Angela Rayner warns

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Irish Passport Office issuing 7,000 passports per day with staff 'working flat out'

A record 1.4 million passport applications are expected this year and many first time applicants are reporting long delays

Dublin Live

Passport Office warns applicants 'not to book travel' and updates compensation guidance and amid backlog chaos

Version 4.0 of the guidance was published this week, with notable changes to its refund policy

Liverpool Echo

Mum slates passport office after 'four month' saga before first ever family holiday

Natalie Price, 40, needed to get a first passport for her son before she went abroad with her children for the first time

Liverpool Echo

Leo Varadkar says new Irish passport office could be opened in west to help cope with demand

Ministers and TDs are facing increased pressure from constituents and Opposition TDs over the passport service with over 290,000 outstanding applications and hundreds of people facing missing their holiday abroad

Irish Mirror

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How to speed up your passport application - 4 easy tips as Brits face 10-week waits

Naveen Dittakavi, founder and CEO of Next Vacay, has shared his best tips to try and speed up applications to the Passport Office, which is struggling to deal with post-lockdown demand

Daily Mirror

‘Everybody’s getting their passport within four to six weeks’ says Boris Johnson

HM Passport Office is currently advising that travellers leave 10 weeks to receive a new passport - with many holidaymakers reporting longer waiting times

The Independent UK

Family face missing £7,000 holiday with terminally ill gran due to passport wait

Sophie Fleetwood, from Reading, Berkshire, fears she won't be able to go on a TUI holiday to Pegasos Royal in Alanya, Turkey because of lengthy queues at the Passport Office

Daily Mirror

The Standard View: Crossrail - not a Tube line but a game-changer

If you were unsure as to whether Crossrail had captured Londoners’ imagination, you needed only to witness the joyous scenes both outside and inside Paddington station this morning. Hundreds of people lined up — some since midnight — not to purchase the latest Harry Potter book or get an appointment…

Evening Standard

Brit couple face being forced to leave China without baby girl in passport fiasco

Callum and his wife Neelam, who are both teachers, are currently living in Shanghai where they welcomed their baby daughter Isabelle in February.

Daily Record

In the Passport Office queue I see distress, despair and the dilapidated state of Britain

Public service cuts are ruining what’s left of the essential services we all use, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

UK travel warning as leaked memo shows passport chaos will get worse this summer

The private memo claims that the Passport Agency's "creaking" IT systems are struggling to cope with the current 500,000 passport backlog and are "not fit for purpose"

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Wales Online

Leaked memo warns of even more problems getting passports renewed in time for the summer holidays

Passport Office workers complain that 'creaky, half-working' computer system' is adding to a mounting backlog of applications

Daily Mirror

Travel warning for Brits as leaked memo shows passport chaos will get WORSE this summer

"Creaking" IT systems "not fit for purpose" are struggling to cope with the enormous backlog of passports, as Brits get back to holidaying abroad

Evening Standard

Passport delays ‘could get worse’ and ‘put summer holidays at risk’, leaked messages reveal

Holidaymakers face further delays in receiving their passports after a leaked memo from the Passport Office warned of “rock-bottom morale” amongst staff and “creaking” IT systems.

Daily Mirror

Mum's fury as son's passport application cancelled two weeks before family holiday

Lucy Thompson began the application in March after realising her son's passport had expired and a family holiday beckoned with 12 relatives in less than two weeks

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Parents fear they'll be forced to leave baby girl in China after passport delay

The couple had their hopes dashed when Shanghai went into lockdown in April to curb a new wave of coronavirus infections and postal services were suspended

Wales Online

Passport problems mean British couple face leaving newborn baby in China

Lockdowns in China are making it difficult to get baby Isabelle a passport

Belfast Live

Passport expiry date warning as Co Down toddler turned away at gates before boarding

The family were looking forward to a sun holiday with their sons

Chronicle Live

What are your options if your passport doesn't arrive in time?

Record numbers of people applying has led to 10-week turnaround time - here we look at what you can do if you can't travel

Daily Record

Gran's luxury £3,000 Turkey holiday in jeopardy due to passport delay submitted three months ago

Mary O’Riordan made a passport application in February and is still waiting with days left to fly as passport office swamped.

Liverpool Echo

Hundreds of passports lost by government courier as major backlog continues

The government issued more than a million fewer passports in 2020 and 2021, but lost passports skyrocketed

The Guardian - UK

These destructive, vindictive civil service cuts are part of Johnson’s culture wars

This government seems determined to undermine Whitehall, says the civil servant

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