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HM Passport Office guidelines for photographers and photographic studios producing photos for UK passports.
This leaflet has information on how you can get help renewing your passport and what you should remember when using an organisation to help you apply.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to deal with naturalisation and registration certificates issued by UKVI for British passport applications.
This document includes guidance on first-time applicants, renewals, parental responsibility, court orders and loco parentis.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to add observations to passports.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about people who hold dual nationality.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the identity checks they must do on passport applications from the United Kingdom and overseas.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about replacing documents that have been lost or damaged.
The authorised persons newsletters from GRO contain news, guidance and useful information for people authorised to register marriages.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to process passport applications for customers who hold British national (overseas) citizenship.
The guidance letter accompanies the authorised persons appointment form.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the different types of British passports they may receive as part of a passport application.
This guidance tells HM Passport Office staff when to ask for extra authorisation from another person or organisation before we issue a passport.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about handling supporting documents for British passport applications and when they can or cannot be accepted.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to add and record titles and observations on a passport.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about birth registration and how to deal with applications where the birth is not registered, registered late or re-registered.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the procedure for passport applications received from HM armed forces personnel.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the Royal Prerogative in relation to passport applications.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to deal with passport applications for customers who hold British overseas citizen status.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to deal with passport applications from members of the British Diplomatic Service and British Diplomatic Missions abroad.
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