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Tells HM Passport Office staff how to process passport applications for customers who hold British national (overseas) citizenship.
Answers to frequently asked questions about registered buildings.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about withdrawing passport applications.
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 passport applications from members of the British Diplomatic Service and British Diplomatic Missions abroad.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about inviting customers to volunteer DNA evidence to support a biological relationship, during a UK or overseas British passport application.
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 the procedure for passport applications received from HM armed forces personnel.
HM Passport Office guidance on how to deal with applications involving parental responsibility, court orders, testamentary guardians and loco parentis.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about handling Freedom of Information requests.
This document explains the changes to the UK passport, which was introduced in October 2010.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about names that cannot be used in passports.
This document tells HM Passport Office staff how to process a passport application to renew or replace an old blue passport.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the quality, style and appearance required of passport photographs.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the Royal Prerogative in relation to passport applications.
This newsletter provides marriage registrars in synagogues with information to help you perform your registration duties.
This guidance is for HM Passport Office staff dealing with live passport applications (or recently issued passports).
Tells HM Passport Office staff about birth registration and how to deal with applications where the birth is not registered, registered late or re-registered.
This document tells HM Passport Office staff how to deal with applications completed and consented to by third parties.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about handling supporting documents for British passport applications and when they can or cannot be accepted.
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