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Tells HM Passport Office staff about the process for issuing restricted validity passports.
Version 25.0 This guidance tells His Majesty’s Passport Office examiners…
Tells HM Passport Office staff about our names policy.
Version 5.0 His Majesty’s Passport Office’s policy on names About: His…
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the evidence needed before changing an adult or child’s name on a passport.
Version 24.0 His Majesty’s Passport Office guidance about the evidence we…
Places of worship, including those registered for marriages under the Marriage Act, both for the marriage of opposite sex and same sex couples.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to deal with passport applications when the customer has a change of name.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to show uncommon names in passports.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about names that cannot be used in passports.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to deal with passport applications where the name a customer applies in does not match the name on their foreign documents.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to deal with the collective passport process.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about documents the Home Office issue.
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