Guidance

Home Office status letters: caseworker guidance

Tells HM Passport Office staff what a status letter is and how to use status letters with passport applications.

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Home Office status letters

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This guidance tells HM Passport Office staff what a Home Office status letter is and describes how to deal with one sent as a supporting document in a passport application.

Updates to this page

Published 13 January 2012
Last updated 18 November 2022 + show all updates
  1. This guidance has been updated to reflect the change in our sovereign from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to His Majesty King Charles III.

  2. Accessible version added.

  3. Updated version of the guidance with new instructions on when a status letter can and cannot be accepted for passport purposes and how to refer a status letter that may have been issued in error.

  4. First published.

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