Got my new passport today, only 2 weeks which is great service. Now the bad bit, for others; From 2014, people living overseas will have to renew their passport directly to the Identity and Passport Service (IPS - an agency of the Home Office) in the UK. This means that the current network of Regional Passport Processing Centres overseas will close. They state that the time to process each application will be 4 weeks from the date they receive it. So plan ahead peeps.