Guidance

Surrogacy: caseworker guidance

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

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Surrogacy: caseworker guidance

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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

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Published 30 January 2024

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