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HM Passport Office guidelines for photographers and photographic studios producing photos for UK passports.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about customers who ask for a change of gender on their passport.
A new passport design was launched on 3 November 2015.
Tells HM Passport Office staff what to do if we issue a passport with an error.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to physically and electronically cancel a British passport.
This guidance tells HM Passport Office staff when to ask for extra authorisation from another person or organisation before we issue a passport.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about people who hold dual nationality.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the process to print a passport, the differences between central print and local print and how to collect printed passports.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the process for issuing restricted validity passports.
This document covers what happens at the General Register Office once an adoption order is received.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the names we use in passports.
This document includes guidance on first-time applicants, renewals, parental responsibility, court orders and loco parentis.
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 about our names policy.
Guidance for HM Passport Office staff on how to deal with applications involving surrogacy (a type of assisted reproduction).
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to add and record titles and observations on a passport.
His Majesty's Passport Office guidance on withdrawing passports and passport facilities (services).
Tells HM Passport Office staff about handling supporting documents for British passport applications and when they can or cannot be accepted.
This guidance tells HM Passport Office staff what parental responsibility is and why we need it for passport purposes.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to process passport applications for customers who hold British national (overseas) citizenship.
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