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If you do not have a UK passport there are other identity documents you can use for your driving licence application
Guidance for completing forms ID1: Certificate of identity for a private individual, and ID2: Certificate of identity for a body corporate.
This good practice guide (GPG 46) relates to establishing the identities of organisations or individuals acting on behalf of those organisations.
Application form ID3 to prove your identity when lodging an application to HM Land Registry.
Forms AP1, FR1 and DS2: guidance on when evidence of identity must be lodged in support of an application for registration.
Guidance for completing form ID3: certificate of identity for a private individual.
Guidance on how digital identity providers can become certified to complete digital identity checks for the 'Right to Work', 'Right to Rent' and DBS schemes.
An updated version of the digital identity and attributes trust framework, following testing and feedback.
Report looking at the relationship between identity and risk.
Requirements for organisations wanting to provide or consume digital identity products and services.
Disclosure of the identity of individuals making applications and complaints to the Certification Officer
Report examining what happens to people's identities when the economy is suffering or flourishing.
Report looking at the role smartphones and similar technologies play in our sense of identity.
The Identity Commissioner was the regulator of the National Identity Card Scheme.
Information and guidance for verifying your identity.
This article is a reflection on Sen's book Identity and Violence and its relevance in explaining the rise of sectarian narratives world-wide
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