Guidance

Parental responsibility: birth parents, adoption and surrogacy: caseworker guidance

HM Passport Office guidance about parental responsibility, birth parents, adoption and surrogacy.

• From: HM Passport Office
• Published: 24 January 2024
• Last updated: 10 October 2024 — See all updates

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This guidance tells HM Passport Office staff:

• how birth and adoptive parents get parental responsibility
• how to confirm a birth or adoptive parent has parental responsibility
• to use the surrogacy guidance to establish who has parental responsibility for a child born through surrogacy

Published 24 January 2024
Last updated 10 October 2024 + show all updates

1. 10 October 2024

   This guidance has been updated to tell examiners how to deal with queries relating to children being born overseas, missing documents, corrected birth certificates and confirming parental responsibilities.

2. 24 January 2024

   First published.