We need to renew an adult and a child passport for this summer. Stupidly only realised this shortly after the strike action started. Apparently the government advice is to allow ten weeks, regardless of strike action, but that most applications were taking a lot less than this before the strike action. About a quarter of the passport workforce are on strike. We know this will obviously entail delays, but it seems that passport applications are still being processed.
In trying to mitigate the delays, is it going to be better to apply digitally for our renewals, or postally? I've got this mental image of postal applications sitting around in piles and more vulnerable to getting lost the longer they sit in the system, as opposed to a digital queue of online applications, but what do I know?! 😀
And have just realised that if digitally, I'll have to get ANOTHER set of passport photos taken of myself with a digital code because I got print-outs the other week...