When Nerry Cosentino applied to renew her passport in February, she thought she’d left herself plenty of time.
She was due to fly to Spain for a solo getaway three months later in May, her first trip abroad since the pandemic.
But a few weeks after sending off the paperwork she got an email claiming her old passport contained ink stains and that she needed to explain why.
Costly: Leah Archibald (pictured) lost £700 when she had to drop out of her friend’s hen-do in Portugal on May…
