A family was forced to cancel a £1,800 Canary Island holiday because a passport took too long to be processed.
Many across the UK have reported that getting a new passport can take up to months of waiting. According to gov.uk, standard waiting times for an online application should take between five to six weeks for the week ending March 20.
Despite this, a tweet from the Passport Office on Monday, April 4 said: "Is your passport due to expire? You'll need to allow up to 10 weeks to process your passport application when applying from the UK." One man, in particular, Scott, noted how he and his wife had sent off five passports for renewal with the hopes of going abroad in January to Fuerteventura.
