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HM Passport Office guidance on how to deal with an application for a child in the care of the local authorities.
HM Passport Office guidance on how to deal with applications involving parental responsibility, court orders, testamentary guardians and loco parentis.
Immigration staff guidance providing historical background information on nationality and help with assessing citizenship claims.
Registration as a British Overseas Territories citizen and British citizen: Chagossian descendant.
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 for when the applicant's nationality is doubtful or disputed.
Immigration staff guidance on what the full capacity requirement is for applications and what to consider before granting an application.
Immigration staff guidance on authority levels for decisions on British nationality applications based on different circumstances.
Immigration staff guidance on considering automatic claims to citizenship based on a child’s relationship with their father.
This guidance tells His Majesty’s Passport Office staff about the renunciation (giving up) of British nationality.
Changes introduced by Home Office statisticians to a wide range of UK migration statistics.
Nationality instructions about how UK Visas and Immigration decides on applications from sex offenders.
Immigration staff guidance on considering requests from British citizens to renounce their status.
Immigration staff guidance on how to deal with issues relating to an individual's identity.
Immigration staff guidance on the requirements for naturalisation as a British overseas territories citizen (BOTC) under section 18(1) and section 18(2).
Immigration staff guidance for registering British nationals as citizens under the British Nationality Act 1981.
This guidance tells HM Passport Office staff what parental responsibility is and why we need it for passport purposes.
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.
Nationality instructions about how UK Visas and Immigration decides on applications from citizens of the UK and colonies.
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