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HM Passport Office guidance about parental responsibility, birth parents, adoption and surrogacy.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to add and record titles and observations on a passport.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the different types of British passports they may receive as part of a passport application.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to deal with emergency passports and travel documents.
Tells HM Passport Office staff what to do when customers tell us about the death of a passport holder.
This document contains information about Australia to help HM Passport Office staff process passport applications.
This guidance is for HM Passport Office staff dealing with live passport applications (or recently issued passports).
This document includes guidance on first-time applicants, renewals, parental responsibility, court orders and loco parentis.
This document contains information about Portugal to help HM Passport Office staff process passport applications.
HM Passport Office guidance on how to deal with an application for a child in the care of the local authorities.
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 importance of reading and recording permanent records of information, such as case notes and passport notes.
This document contains information about the Netherlands to help HM Passport Office staff process passport applications.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to establish British nationality for people born abroad when their parent was in Crown, Designated or EU community service.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the names we use in passports.
This document contains information about Saudi Arabia to help HM Passport Office staff process passport applications.
This document contains information about Syria to help HM Passport Office staff process passport applications.
Guidance for HM Passport Office staff on how to deal with applications involving surrogacy (a type of assisted reproduction).
This document contains information about South Africa to help HM Passport Office staff process passport applications.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to deal with passport applications from members of the British Diplomatic Service and British Diplomatic Missions abroad.
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