Half a million Brits are set to miss out on summer holidays amid passport office bungle
OVER half a million Brits are set to miss out on summer holidays, thanks to the bungling passport office.
The backlog was running at 550,000 at the end of last month chiefs reveal, as they reveal they’ve desperately scrambled to process more thanOver half a million Brits are set to miss out on summer holidays thanks to the bungling passport officeAnd of those, 50,000 have been waiting for more than ten weeks, according to Tom Greig a director from the passport office.
He "We've reached record levels of output and in doing so we've had a decent service for the vast majority of applications, however there is a group, a very small proportion of that figure for who we haven't delivered the service we'd like to." He added: "We accept that's an issue and we're very sorry for the people who have been put in that situation."
Mr Greig said that in a normal year his department would process around seven million applications, but this is anticipated to rise to 9.5 million by the end of 2022.
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