If you are trying to renew your passport or identity card, you are probably experiencing the lengthening of the time it takes to get the precious document.

According to France Info, it now takes about two months to get your new identity card or passport.

The National Security Titles Agency (ANTS) is talking about forty days.

This is because the deadlines are not the same depending on the municipalities.

Delays are actually accumulated in three different stages, for three different types of delays.

First of all, the deadline for having an appointment at his town hall: "Today, it is on average twenty-two days, with situations which are different depending on the municipalities and often depending on the size of the municipalities" , explains Anne-Gaëlle Baudouin, director of ANTS, to France Info.

Then there is an administrative delay "which is the moment when the title is instructed by a prefecture service and then a delay to manufacture it and send it to the town hall where it will be given to you.

This timeframe is now a little longer, but it is also around twenty days ”.

Three main reasons

There are three main reasons for these delays. First, the effect of the pandemic, which is twofold: many people have delayed the renewal of their papers with the various confinements and the closure of civil status services. And then today trips abroad are again possible, which gives rise to new demands. The second reason is Brexit: for a few weeks now, you need a passport to go to the United Kingdom. Finally, a third reason is more anecdotal: the new identity card available since this summer may have attracted some or some.

Result: there is a stoppage in renewal requests and the factory that manufactures these identity papers does not have infinite production capacities.

The ANTS advises to take it well in advance to renew its documents, while waiting for the situation to improve.

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