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This document includes guidance on first-time applicants, renewals, parental responsibility, court orders and loco parentis.
Tells HM Passport Office staff what to do if we need parental consent for a minor’s application and identify a safeguarding issue.
This guidance tells His Majesty’s Passport Office staff about the renunciation (giving up) of British nationality.
This guidance tells HM Passport Office staff what parental responsibility is and why we need it for passport purposes.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to deal with an application if a customer cannot send us the supporting documents we need to prove their identity, entitlement and British nationality.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about documents that cannot be returned to customers.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the names we use in passports.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about customers who ask for a change of gender on their passport.
This document contains information about Germany to help HM Passport Office staff process passport applications.
Comparisons on passport fees around the world, including price and validity for both adult and child passports.
This document contains information about Jamaica to help HM Passport Office staff process passport applications.
This document contains information about Japan to help His Majesty’s Passport Office staff process passport applications.
This document contains information about Iraq 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.
The authorised persons newsletters from GRO contain news, guidance and useful information for people authorised to register marriages.
His Majesty’s Passport Office guidance explaining how we return customer’s documents to them when the application is still live.
This document contains useful information about New Zealand which will assist HM Passport Office staff process passport applications.
A new passport design was launched on 3 November 2015.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about names that cannot be used in passports.
This document contains information about the Netherlands to help HM Passport Office staff process passport applications.
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