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: 2 July 2025 — See all updates

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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.

Published 31 October 2023

Last updated 2 July 2025 + show all updates

1. 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).

2. 31 October 2023

   First published.