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Immigration staff guidance providing historical background information on nationality and help with assessing citizenship claims.
Immigration staff guidance for when the applicant's nationality is doubtful or disputed.
Immigration staff guidance on how to consider whether an individual is ordinarily resident in the UK.
Immigration staff guidance for registering British nationals as citizens under the British Nationality Act 1981.
Use this guidance to find out how your child can become a British citizen if you adopt in the UK from abroad.
Immigration staff guidance on considering automatic claims to citizenship based on a child’s relationship with their father.
This guidance tells HM Passport Office staff what parental responsibility is and why we need it for passport purposes.
Nationality instructions about how UK Visas and Immigration decides on applications from sex offenders.
Immigration staff guidance on authority levels for decisions on British nationality applications based on different circumstances.
Immigration staff guidance on who can register as a British citizen under the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1997.
HM Passport Office guidance about parental responsibility, birth parents, adoption and surrogacy.
Immigration staff guidance on processing applications from people who have previously renounced British citizenship and have applied to register as a citizen.
Immigration staff guidance about British subjects and how to consider applications to acquire that status.
Immigration staff guidance on how to consider a person’s domicile based on assessing citizenship claims and applications.
Registration as a British Overseas Territories citizen and British citizen: Chagossian descendant.
Immigration staff guidance on handling requests for priority treatment of citizenship applications.
Immigration staff guidance on what the full capacity requirement is for applications and what to consider before granting an application.
HM Passport Office guidance on how to deal with an application for a child in the care of the local authorities.
Immigration staff guidance on considering requests from British citizens to renounce their status.
Immigration staff guidance on how to consider requests to register individuals who are stateless as British citizens.
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