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Tells HM Passport Office staff how to add observations to passports.
If you were adopted, you can add your name and contact wishes to the register.
Tells HM Passport Office staff what a status letter is and how to use status letters with passport applications.
This leaflet has information on how you can get help renewing your passport and what you should remember when using an organisation to help you apply.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to deal with a passport application for a customer whose claim is through a European Economic Area national who exercised Treaty rights.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about replacing documents that have been lost or damaged.
Tells HM Passport Office staff what to do if we issue a passport with an error.
HM Passport Office guidelines for photographers and photographic studios producing photos for UK passports.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to physically and electronically cancel a British passport.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the process for issuing restricted validity passports.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the different types of British passports they may receive as part of a passport application.
This document tells HM Passport Office staff what information we need about a customer’s parents and grandparents and what to do if information is missing.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the evidence needed before changing an adult or child’s name on a passport.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about withdrawing passport applications.
Guidance on how to certify a building for religious worship and register it for the solemnisation of marriages.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to deal with passport applications for customers who hold British overseas citizen status.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the quality, style and appearance required of passport photographs.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about fees for passport service types, information on fee increases and the circumstances in which a refund may be granted.
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.
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