I remember renewing my passport in India in local passport office and also even here in London (in a week).
They have a very basic site that they have developed is where you enter
Application ref no, date of birth and they give one word/one line status of where it is..
Cant UKBA build a simple system as that?? I am sure half the queries at 0870 will go away if they implement something like that..
Well probably thats expecting too much from UKBA.. !!!
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