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This guidance tells HM Passport Office staff what parental responsibility is and why we need it for passport purposes.
UK Visas and Immigration settlement application guidance on civil partners.
Immigration staff guidance on considering requests from British citizens to renounce their status.
Immigration staff guidance on considering automatic claims to citizenship based on a child’s relationship with their father.
Immigration staff guidance on the discretionary policy in place for those discharged from the British Army, Brigade of Gurkhas prior to 1 July 1997.
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.
Guidance for people born before July 2006 to unmarried fathers connected to a British overseas territory.
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 on handling requests for priority treatment of citizenship applications.
Nationality instructions about how UK Visas and Immigration decides on applications from sex offenders.
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 people who are stateless.
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Immigration Rules archive: 19 May 2016 to 23 November 2016, an archived document.
Immigration staff guidance on authority levels for decisions on British nationality applications based on different circumstances.
Immigration staff guidance on when to vary a settlement application and grant permission to stay.
Posters and booklets promoting the Windrush Help Team service in English, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu and Welsh.
Immigration staff guidance on how to consider referrals made under the Afghan citizens resettlement scheme pathway 1 stage 2: separated families.
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