Quote Originally Posted by yorkie View Post

...they have my passport and I have a flight booked for 4 weeks from now, thinking I'm likely to have to miss that...would've thought they could have just photocopied and returned, but this is the civil service of course so no amount of unecessary beauracracy is too excessive.
When my father-in-law was admitted in France, my husband urgently called the immigration office to have his passport back, he explained the circumstance then after a week we received his passport, but by that time, my Father-in-law was already back here in the UK.