Question follow-through · 32256

Passports: British National (Overseas)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average processing time is for passports for children born outside the UK.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 21 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 25 Feb 2025
Answer: 3 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

21 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average processing time is for passports for children born outside the UK.
25 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Mar 2025
Answer published
The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate costWhere no further information is required, His Maje...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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