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Tells HM Passport Office staff about the quality, style and appearance required of passport photographs.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to deal with passport applications where the customer's parent was granted pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme.
His Majesty’s Passport Office guidance explaining how we return customer’s documents to them when the application is still live.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the procedure for passport applications received from HM armed forces personnel.
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 birth registration and how to deal with applications where the birth is not registered, registered late or re-registered.
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.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to handle customers who exhibit threatening, abusive or violent behaviour.
This document tells HM Passport Office staff useful historic information about British passports.
The guidance letter accompanies the authorised persons appointment form.
If your child was conceived through sperm donation you'll need to provide additional evidence to support your passport application.
This document contains information about France to help HM Passport Office staff process passport applications.
The authorised persons newsletters from GRO contain news, guidance and useful information for people authorised to register marriages.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how adoption affects parental responsibility, nationality and passport applications.
Guidance on how to certify a building for religious worship and register it for the solemnisation of marriages.
This document contains information about Brazil to help HM Passport Office staff process passport applications.
This guidance tells His Majesty’s Passport Office staff about the renunciation (giving up) of British nationality.
This document contains information about the Netherlands to help HM Passport Office staff process passport applications.
HM Passport Office guidance on how to deal with applications involving parental responsibility, court orders, testamentary guardians and loco parentis.
This document contains information about Czechia to help HM Passport Office staff process passport applications.
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