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Casework instructions for how UK Visas and Immigration decides applications for citizenship.
Nationality instructions about how UK Visas and Immigration decides applications under the interpretation acts.
Nationality instructions about how UK Visas and Immigration decides applications from protectorates and protected states.
Nationality instructions about how UK Visas and Immigration decides applications for British passports.
Nationality instructions about how UK Visas and Immigration decide the legal parentage of children from surrogacy.
Nationality instructions about how UK Visas and Immigration decides on applications from people who are stateless.
Immigration staff guidance about British subjects and how to consider applications to acquire that status.
Immigration staff guidance on how surrogacy in the UK affects a child’s claim to British nationality.
Immigration staff guidance on processing applications from people who have previously renounced British citizenship and have applied to register as a citizen.
HM Passport Office guidance on how to deal with an application for a child in the care of the local authorities.
Immigration staff guidance for registering British nationals as citizens under the British Nationality Act 1981.
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