Guidance

Assisted reproduction: caseworker guidance

His Majesty’s Passport Office guidance on how to deal with applications involving assisted reproduction.

• From: HM Passport Office
• Published: 31 October 2023
• Last updated: 12 August 2026
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  1. 12 August 2026

     This guidance has been updated in the Nationality: child conceived on or after 6 April 2009 section to confirm you must follow the definition of parents for nationality purposes guidance and in the Mother: not married or not in a civil partnership section to confirm another example of additional evidence.

  2. 2 July 2025

     Guidance updated with a terminology change in relation to DNA testing for British passport applications, and to remove references to Application Management System (AMS).

  3. 31 October 2023

     First published.

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This guidance tells His Majesty’s Passport Office staff:

• what assisted reproduction is and the impact it has on passport applications
• why a passport application involving surrogacy (an example of assisted reproduction) has different requirements
• how to establish a customer’s parents to confirm their claim to British nationality and legal parentage
• how to deal with a passport application involving assisted reproduction, including what documents are needed to establish nationality, identity and entitlement to a British passport

If you are dealing with a passport application involving surrogacy, you must use the surrogacy guidance.