Getting a new passport takes about 3 weeks. The government recommendation is that you shouldn’t book a holiday until you get your passport. But if you’re needed in another country for business reasons or if the worst happens and you have to go abroad to see a loved one who’s ill, you won’t be able to wait 21 days. If you need an urgent British passport, where can you look for help and assistance?
If you need an urgent British passport renewal, you’ll have to use a same day passport service. This is a service carried out by a private company who can submit daily applications without appointment to the passport office.
This sort of passport renewal service can also make sure that all of your documents, including the application form, are correct. This should stop you getting involved in the sort of legal complications that add more time to an application. This is particularly true if you’ve recently changed your name by Deed Poll and some agencies have you listed with your old name still.
Passport application form
Unfortunately, there’s no getting around the form because it still has to be completed when you use a same day passport service. You still need 2 passport size photographs and your old passport, any supporting information the application form requests and the signature of someone who’s a professional person like a police officer, a civil servant, a minister or someone with professional qualifications like a teacher or accountant. But once you’ve delivered it to the firm either by courier, hand delivery or special delivery, it will be processed and available for collection later that day.
Same day second passport application
Suddenly realising that every page in your passport has been used must be a horrible feeling when you’re due to travel in a few days, but as with the same day passport renewal, you can get a second passport application done and dusted in a day. The process is very similar, but you don’t need to send the original passport.
