Child passport expiry : AV

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This passport renewal thing is a crock of crap and I think the major problem lies with the Consulate in London. Adult passports take longer to issue than childrens because the application gets sent back to pretoria and they verify the finger prints etc which takes time. Childrens passports however do not take that long and a woman in Pretoria told me that a child passport is normally turned around withing 2 weeks of them receiving it. Take that applications only get sent back once a week, plus two weeks for turn around, a week back....and allow another week or two, for goodwill...a child passport should only take 6 weeks...I'm waiting nearly 3 months for my sons.....
The last time I was told I had at least a month to wait, the passports had already been back in London two weeks........
So this week, it is time to stir up the pot again......