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Immigration staff guidance on considering automatic claims to citizenship based on a child’s relationship with their father.
Immigration staff guidance providing historical background information on nationality and help with assessing citizenship claims.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to deal with passport applications for customers that hold British citizenship.
Immigration staff guidance on how to consider whether an individual is ordinarily resident in the UK.
Immigration staff guidance on applications for registration as a British citizen from children of British parents.
Use this guidance to find out how your child can become a British citizen if you adopt in the UK from abroad.
Immigration staff guidance on handling requests for priority treatment of citizenship applications.
This guidance tells HM Passport Office staff what parental responsibility is and why we need it for passport purposes.
Immigration staff guidance about British subjects and how to consider applications to acquire that status.
Immigration staff guidance for registering British nationals as citizens under the British Nationality Act 1981.
Immigration staff guidance on nationality applications and claims to British citizenship based on adoption.
Nationality instructions about how UK Visas and Immigration decides on applications from citizens of the UK and colonies.
Immigration staff guidance detailing when a person automatically becomes a British overseas territories citizen.
Immigration staff guidance on what the full capacity requirement is for applications and what to consider before granting an application.
Immigration staff guidance on authority levels for decisions on British nationality applications based on different circumstances.
Immigration staff guidance on the requirements for naturalisation as a British overseas territories citizen (BOTC) under section 18(1) and section 18(2).
Immigration staff guidance on processing applications from people who have previously renounced British citizenship and have applied to register as a citizen.
Immigration staff guidance on establishing whether a British overseas territories citizen (BOTC) holds that status by descent or otherwise than by descent.
Immigration staff guidance on how to deal with issues relating to an individual's identity.
Immigration staff guidance on how to consider requests to register individuals who are stateless as British citizens.
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