Apply for a Home Office travel document

1. Overview

You can apply for a document to travel outside the UK if you’re not British and can’t use or get a passport from your country.

Eligibility

You must be living in the UK for one of the following reasons:

• you have permission to stay as a refugee or stateless person
• you have humanitarian protection for a limited time after a failed asylum application
• you have discretionary leave for a limited time after a failed asylum application
• you’re settled here permanently (known as ‘indefinite leave to remain’)

You must show that you’ve formally applied for and been unreasonably refused a passport by authorities in your country, unless you have permission to be in the UK as a refugee or stateless person.

You’ll need to provide evidence that supports your application - use original documents, not photocopies.

Types of travel documents

There are 4 different types you can apply for, depending on your status.

Your status	Type of travel document	Adult fee	Child (15 or under) fee	Fee if born before 1 September 1929
Refugee	Convention travel document	£72	£46	£0
Stateless	Stateless person’s document	£72	£46	£0
You want to leave and not come back	One-way document (also known as an IS137)	£72	£46	£72
Refused a passport by your own national authorities	Certificate of travel	£267	£134	£218

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