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Passport Office put another child's face on our daughter's documents - now we may miss out on our £5,000 dream holiday to Egypt

A family may miss out on their dream £5,000 holiday to Egypt after the wrong photograph was put on a three-year-old's passport.

Jasmeen Basi and Dillon Birring said they may not be able to take their two children on their first holiday abroad together after the 'shocking' passport blunder.

They sent off an application for their daughter Daya's first passport and were told after several weeks that officials mistakenly swapped her photo with another child's image.

A photo of an Asian child aged between seven and 12 had erroneously been attached instead, Mrs Basi said.