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Tells HM Passport Office staff about the process for issuing restricted validity passports.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the quality, style and appearance required of passport photographs.
Answers to frequently asked questions about registered buildings.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to deal with passport applications for customers that need to travel urgently for urgent government business or compassionate reasons.
This guidance is for His Majesty’s Passport Office staff.
This guidance is for HM Passport Office staff.
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.
If your child was conceived through sperm donation you'll need to provide additional evidence to support your passport application.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the process to print a passport, the differences between central print and local print and how to collect printed passports.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to deal with an application if a customer cannot send us the supporting documents we need to prove their identity, entitlement and British nationality.
Guidance for HM Passport Office staff on delivery and collection of passports and supporting documents.
This document includes guidance on first-time applicants, renewals, parental responsibility, court orders and loco parentis.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to decide if an application is a United Kingdom or overseas application.
A new passport design was launched on 3 November 2015.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how adoption affects parental responsibility, nationality and passport applications.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about compensating a customer or claiming compensation when something goes wrong.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how customers can apply for a passport using the digital premium service.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the Royal Prerogative in relation to passport applications.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the names we use in passports.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to use a balance of probabilities when dealing with passport applications.
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