Email Verification not working in production

I have deployed my Laravel Application in Azure and email verification is not working. I am using TALL Stack with Breeze as base. I am using Laravel 10 with Livewire 3.

When new user is created from Livewire Forms, the verification email is sent successfully after user creation. In local environment everything works and email gets verified. But in production I am getting 403 Unauthorized error for the verification URL.

I found some similar issues but every answer was pointing out to the code that was already in Breeze and I am not able to find any solution to my issue.

//  App\Livewire\Forms\UserFrom.php
use App\Notifications\WelcomeUserNotification;
...		
public function create(){
	$newUser = new User();
    $newUser->name = $this->name;
    $newUser->email = $this->email;
	...
	if($newUser->save()){
	    $newUser->notify(new WelcomeUserNotification());
        ...
    }
}

User model is correctly setup

class User extends Authenticatable implements MustVerifyEmail
{
    use Notifiable, ... ;
    ...

The custom notification looks like this,

// App\Notifications\WelcomeUserNotification.php
use Illuminate\Auth\Notifications\VerifyEmail;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Messages\MailMessage;
...
class WelcomeUserNotification extends VerifyEmail 
{
	public function toMail($notifiable)
    {
		return (new MailMessage)
            ->greeting('Hello, ' . $notifiable->name . '!')
            ->subject('Please Verify Your Email Address')
            ->line('Your account has been created at ' .
              	config('app.name') . ' on ' .
                $notifiable->created_at->format('M d, Y, g:i A'))
            ->action('Click to Verify Email Address', $this->verificationUrl($notifiable))
            ->line('Thank you for using our application!');
    }

I have not changed anything from Breeze, the auth.php route is untouched

// App\Routes\Auth.php
...
Route::middleware('auth')->group(function () {
    Route::get('verify-email', EmailVerificationPromptController::class)
        ->name('verification.notice');

    Route::get('verify-email/{id}/{hash}', VerifyEmailController::class)
        ->middleware(['signed', 'throttle:6,1'])
        ->name('verification.verify');

    Route::post('email/verification-notification', [EmailVerificationNotificationController::class, 'store'])
        ->middleware('throttle:6,1')
        ->name('verification.send');
		...
		});

The verification url looks something like:

https://{{APP_URL}}/verify-email/5/e34c48146999087b319d4d58f9fdac4d17fc9afe?expires=1712240915&signature=46e74947e7d8cd23418c2563575f8cde8a43df0642bde536e2a4b1fe9bc312fd

This works perfectly fine in localhost, using docker and sail, but in production throws 403 error. Am I missing something ? Please Help.