Question follow-through · 128607
Passports: Interviews
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many naturalised British people are called for first-time adult passport interviews; and whether those interviews are chosen by risk-based selection.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 20 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 22 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 23 Apr 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many naturalised British people are called for first-time adult passport interviews; and whether those interviews are chosen by risk-based selection.
22 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Apr 2026
Answer published
Passport interviews are part of a range of checks to confirm the identity of a passport applicant. Where a customer applying for their first British passport has been naturalised within the last 12 months and UK Visa and Immigration records confirm the cu...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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