Passport office vc Firearms Licencing- which is quicker or more inept?

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Heym SR20

Heym SR20

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So just had to renew my passport. Given that this is also a home office function I do wonder whether it will be renewed before I have to renew my FAC next year.

Given that I was born overseas (whilst my father was employed doing overseas development by the British Government at the time) and that parts of my family were refugees from France a few hundred years ago, and I have only had a British passport for 35 years I am fully expecting to have to provide original birth certificates for all my great grand parents, along with marriage certificates etc. and probably have to take an English language test etc.
 
Just done my passport, whole application start to finish including getting the missus to take my photo took about half an hour. Zero paperwork except for a walk to the post office to post my old passport back. 12th April to around 25th to receive my shiny blue British Passport. Either I'm lucky or the press have this one all wrong?

You should be OK after three passports, I had a Gibraltar passport for while.
 
Just renewed mine, everything straight forward and the turnaround time of a month. The same for my eldest daughter when she did hers a few weeks ago.
Slightly more difficult for the mother in law to renew and it took two months because the silly old goat had destroyed her old passport as she didn't think she would ever need it again.

My daughter has applied for a first passport for her daughter, my granddaughter, and that is proving to be a bit of a nightmare. Copies of both parent's birth certificates were sent, two months later they then asked for a copy of my wife's birth certificate to be supplied.

It was much quicker and easier when you could just pop into the local passport office just a few years ago. You usually got your new passport back in the post two weeks later.
 
Firearms licensing is not a direct Home Office function
As you well know, firearms licensing is delegated to the police force area in which the applicant lives.
In practice, the HO has no day to day involvement in how firearms licensing operates at an individual applicant level
There are many more passport holders than gun licence holders and, for most people, getting a passport is a much simpler process than getting a gun licence.
The experience of myself, family and friends is that the Passport Office operates a much faster, simpler and more efficient operation than any firearms licensing department that I know of.

Cheers

Bruce
 
Just renewed my Passport, less than 2 weeks from filling out the application to it hitting my door mat. Excellent service
 
There you go, proof that you lot don't know how good you have it. Even inefficient UK firearms licensing is efficiency personified in SA.
 
From recent experience of arranging them for our boys, 8 weeks to notification of the passports dispatch, then a further 3 months for TNT do get them to our door.
 
And you can’t even get in touch with then to chase. AND in some cases they are holding on to primary supporting application ID (like passports sent to them) for months per the many online complaints about them - but you can’t get hold of them to get them back / find out status.
 
NoIDeer said:
Just done my passport, whole application start to finish including getting the missus to take my photo took about half an hour. Zero paperwork except for a walk to the post office to post my old passport back. 12th April to around 25th to receive my shiny blue British Passport. Either I'm lucky or the press have this one all wrong?

You should be OK after three passports, I had a Gibraltar passport for while.
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I had mine back inside of 7 days, couldn’t fault the service!
 
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