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June 15, 2014
A surge in applications from migrants is fuelling the Passport Office crisis, it emerged last night.
A record 207,989 foreigners were handed citizenship last year – a huge rise on the 82,000 seen in the year 2000.
Their requests for papers are contributing to the delays at the Passport Office, which is struggling to clear a backlog of 500,000 applications.
The holiday plans of thousands of families are being wrecked by the failure of their passports to arrive on time. Last year only 3 per cent of those who asked for citizenship were rejected and two million migrants have been awarded it since 2000.
Once citizenship is granted, a first passport application usually follows – a time-consuming bureaucratic exercise that involves a face-to-face interview.
Whistleblowers say these first-time applicants are being pushed to the back of the queue as Passport Office staff try to get to grip on the crisis.
Alp Mehmet, of Migration Watch, said: ‘The moment you become a British citizen you can get a British passport and I suspect many of those 207,000 will have and that is certainly something that adds to the difficulties.’
Adults who had booked face-to-face interviews in London were directed to offices elsewhere to allow staff to concentrate on fast-track renewals.
The Home Office claimed this measure was ‘nothing out of the ordinary’ but applicants described chaotic scenes inside the offices with some people in tears.
Claire McKay spent two days frantically trying to obtain a passport for her teenage daughter to go on holiday. ‘It is very traumatic, I have been crying a lot,’ said the social worker. ‘I was very upset, but it was the only way they would understand.’
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said: ‘This shambles just gets worse. Londoners are due to have their passport office part shut in their faces just at the time they need it most.
‘Home Secretary Theresa May has refused to say sorry for her shambles. She needs to get a grip, take responsibility and put this right.’
