Guidance

Surrogacy: caseworker guidance

Guidance for HM Passport Office staff on how to deal with applications involving surrogacy (a type of assisted reproduction).

• From: HM Passport Office
• Published: 30 January 2024

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This guidance tells HM Passport Office staff:

• what surrogacy is and the types of surrogacy
• the roles of people involved in a surrogacy (for example, the surrogate mother and commissioning (the child’s intended) parents)
• to confirm who can consent to the issuing of a passport for a child born through surrogacy
• to confirm the child’s claim to British nationality
• what documents are needed (when a child is born through surrogacy) to establish nationality, identity and entitlement to a British passport
• how you consider vulnerability and safeguarding when dealing with an application involving surrogacy

Published 30 January 2024