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Find a Passport Customer Service Centre for Fast Track and Premium service passport applications - offices are in Belfast, Birmingham, Durham, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Newport and Peterborough.
Certify a document as a true copy of the original by getting it signed and dated by a professional person, like a solicitor
Contact information for the General Register Office
How to get married or form a civil partnership in the UK, giving notice of marriage at a register office, visas, paying fees.
Find out how to register a birth - who can register, birth certificates
Contact the HM Passport Office Webchat service
How to use the Post Office passport Check and Send service for passport applications and renewals, what it costs, where you can use the service.
Check what to do after a death - how to register the death, notify government departments and deal with the estate.
Free services and facilities to help you with your passport application if you're disabled
Who has parental responsibility for looking after children, and how to apply for parental responsibility if you were unmarried to the mother or are not on the birth certificate
British passport eligibility - types of British nationality, eligibility by marriage or civil partnership, who to contact if you're not sure
How to fill in your passport application form and provide a correct photo.
You can apply for or renew a British passport while you're visiting the UK - as long as you expect to be in the UK for long enough
Leaflet explaining how to renew an adult passport online in simple steps.
Application form for British applicants outside the UK.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to deal with delivery addresses for new passports and the return of supporting documents.
Application form to order a copy of a birth certificate registered in England and Wales.
Correct the original registration with the register office or GRO - find out what corrections can be made, who can apply, how long it takes, what they look like
Re-register your child’s birth to add the father's name to the birth record or certificate at the register office
If you were adopted you can access your birth records or get on the Adoption Contact Register to find birth relatives - how to apply, forms and information for birth relatives
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