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The authorised persons newsletters from GRO contain news, guidance and useful information for people authorised to register marriages.
Guidance on how to certify a building for religious worship and register it聽for the solemnisation of marriages.
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 how to process passport applications for customers who hold British national (overseas) citizenship.
This document tells HM Passport Office staff how to deal with passport applications for customers born on or after 1 July 2021 under the EU Settlement Scheme.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to deal with naturalisation and registration certificates issued by UKVI for British passport applications.
This guidance tells HM Passport Office staff what parental responsibility is and why we need it for passport purposes.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the customer鈥檚 place and country of birth and how they must be shown on the passport and in our records.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to physically and electronically cancel a British passport.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the quality, style and appearance required of passport photographs.
This guidance is for His Majesty鈥檚 Passport Office staff.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about the identity checks they must do on passport applications from the United Kingdom and overseas.
HMPO staff guidance on passport applications for customers who need to check if a parent would have had settled status on 30 June 2021.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about inviting customers to volunteer DNA evidence to support a biological relationship, during a UK or overseas British passport application.
This guidance tells HM Passport office staff about sign after receipt passports.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to use a balance of probabilities when dealing with passport applications.
Answers to frequently asked questions about registered buildings.
This document includes guidance on聽first-time applicants, renewals, parental responsibility, court orders and聽loco parentis.
Tells HM Passport Office staff about people who hold dual nationality.
This guidance tells HM Passport Office staff about passport applications for a child born between August 2018 to 30 June 2021.
Don鈥檛 include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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