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by mrsbean » Tue Dec 02, 2014 4:53 pm
Hi guys,
Thanks for your replies.
To clarify - I got my first passport when I was 15 using my birth certificate, since then I only had to use my current / "expiring" passport to get the new one. In the process my parents' house in Ukraine got burgled and all our documents got stolen, they never bothered to get replacement of my birth certificate as I already had a passport at that time.
It might be true that my stuff will turn up and I am praying it will; however, I spoke with 3 different persons at Royal Mail today and they checked everything from road/traffic conditions to delivery route delays, etc. and said everything is running as normal. The truck on which my application should have been riding made its deliveries to Peterborough sorting facility on time this morning. They couldn't say anything else, except you have to wait 10 business days before it's officially lost.
I wish I used Check & Send now... so angry at myself! But now trying to see what my alternatives would be in the worst case scenario, i.e. passport and naturalization certificate are lost never to be seen again. Will ring the passport office tomorrow to see what my options are. I made copies of everything before I sent it - so I have copies of all of my passport pages, naturalization certificate, passport application, etc.
Keeping my fingers crossed it will turn up though, but have found quite a few cases on the internet where UK passport applications and documents get stolen while in Royal Mail possession for identity theft / counterfeiting activities and other illegal purposes.
Just very worried....