Guidance

Parental responsibility: birth parents, adoption and surrogacy: caseworker guidance

HM Passport Office guidance about parental responsibility, birth parents, adoption and surrogacy.

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Parental responsibility: birth parents, adoption and surrogacy

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Details

This guidance tells HM Passport Office staff:

  • how birth and adoptive parents get parental responsibility
  • how to confirm a birth or adoptive parent has parental responsibility
  • to use the surrogacy guidance to establish who has parental responsibility for a child born through surrogacy
Published 24 January 2024