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Tells HM Passport Office staff about the names we use in passports.
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 what an interview is, who must attend, how a customer books an appointment and the types of interviews we offer.
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.
Guidance for HM Passport Office staff on how to check if authorisation and consent is genuine.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to use a balance of probabilities when dealing with passport applications.
This document contains information about Antigua and Barbuda to help HM Passport Office staff process passport applications.
His Majesty’s Passport Office guidance explaining how we return customer’s documents to them when the application is still live.
This guidance tells His Majesty’s Passport Office staff about our one passport per person policy.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about identifying and handling vulnerability and safeguarding issues connected to our customers.
Tells HM Passport Office staff what to do if they're concerned about customers who have threatened to harm themselves or others.
Information about the roles and responsibilities of authorised persons, the clergy and secretaries of synagogues for marriage ceremonies.
Tells HM Passport Office staff what a status letter is and how to use status letters with passport applications.
The guidance letter accompanies the authorised persons appointment form.
This document contains information about Japan to help His Majesty’s Passport Office staff process passport applications.
This document contains information about Canada to help HM Passport Office staff process passport applications.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about compensating a customer or claiming compensation when something goes wrong.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to deal with the collective passport process.
This document contains information about Albania to help HM Passport Office staff process passport applications.
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