You can find practical work-arounds. You can for example leave the dog at a doggie daycare center or with a sitter during the day, or you can bring it to work. But if you are planning to leave it alone for 12 hours straight on any regular basis, then no, you should not take a dog. Views Â· View Upvotes.
What you might not realise is that with so many people trying to get new passports or renew old ones the waiting times for receiving your passport goes up dramatically, as the passport office deal with the backlog of waiting passport applications. The average waiting time to receive a UK passport via the standard postal service is 3-4 weeks but between the months of May and September this could go up to around 5-7 weeks.
A spokesman for IPS said: 'The peak period for passport applications is under way, and we are reminding customers to leave at least three weeks for a renewed passport to arrive and six weeks if applying for the first time. 'We are successfully issuing 99 per cent of renewed passport within three weeks.