Of late passport renewal is taking up to 11 weeks, whilst standard visitor visas for wives and partners are taking considerably longer than the indicated 15 working days.

 

Can the Embassy put pressure on tjhose involved in the UK to speed up the process.  Especially with passports, many expats are finding their passports have expired before the new one is returned causing havoc with Imigration depts

To be fair, HMPO is only trying to recreate the UK domestic experience for everyone else.  In the UK TNT/Fedex are the villains.

https://www.which.co.uk/news/2021/11/passport-delivery-delays-and-failures-ruin-holidays/

I have heard that you cannot apply until 12 weeks before and the time taken is 13 weeks. If this is the case, could the application window be extended?

 

I will have to renew my sons passport and sort my wifes visa in the near future so hope this can be sorted as its pretty embarrassing. Sadly no votes in it so no one cares.