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Home Secretary Theresa May has introduced series of measures to tackle the passport application backlog – a claim that she denied a few days before.
An additional staff of 200 will also be appointed to ease delays and help dealing with delayed applications, which are estimated to be 300,000 by unions.
Mrs May has also told MPs that British citizens living overseas who had been trying to get their passports renewed would be given an automatic 12-month extension.
A free fast-track system for more urgent applications of those who need to travel abroad immediately are also being introduced.
Emergency travel documents are also being issued as part of measures to tackle major delays in passport applications. Mrs May has told those applying for passports overseas for their kids would have to provide “comprehensive proof” that they are the parents before documents would be issued to them
The current Staff working at the passport offices were also asked to relax application checks to help deal with a massive backlog in applications.
The Home Secretary has to face grilling on the circumstances by shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper in the Commons, who called the current situation was a “sorry shambles”.
Ms Cooper has told MPs: “Government incompetence means people are at risk of missing their holidays, honeymoons, business meetings.” And she has also added that some families had already had their “holidays wrecked because one of their passports didn’t arrive in time”.
However, Mrs May has responded to the questions by saying that the government would do “everything it can” while maintaining security to “make people get their passports in time,” while admitted there was no “big bang, single solution.
Still after the introduction of new measures, the Passport Office has said “99%” of applications are being processed within four weeks.
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