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If your child was conceived through sperm donation you'll need to provide additional evidence to support your passport application.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to deal with naturalisation and registration certificates issued by UKVI for British passport applications.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to deal with passport applications from customers who hold British overseas citizenship.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the identity checks they must do on passport applications from the United Kingdom and overseas.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to deal with an application if a customer cannot send us the supporting documents we need to prove their identity, entitlement and British nationality.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to return customers passports and documents to them when a final decision is made on their application.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to check a person’s signature is genuine if we do not hold a record of their signature on main index.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to process notifications and cancel passports held by persons who have not paid child maintenance.
This document contains information about Canada to help HM Passport Office staff process passport applications.
His Majesty’s Passport Office guidance about customer complaints and how these are resolved.
This guidance explains what a specimen passport is and how His Majesty’s Passport Office deals with requests for specimen passports.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the names we use in passports.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about our names policy.
The guidance letter accompanies the authorised persons appointment form.
HM Passport Office guidance on how to deal with applications involving parental responsibility, court orders, testamentary guardians and loco parentis.
This guidance tells HM Passport Office staff what parental responsibility is and why we need it for passport purposes.
This document contains information about Jersey which will assist HM Passport Office staff process passport applications.
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 about the legal definitions of ‘parent’ when establishing British nationality claims for UK and overseas applications.
This guidance tells HM Passport Office staff about passport applications for a child born between August 2018 to 30 June 2021.
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