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HM Passport Office guidance on how to deal with an application for a child in the care of the local authorities.
HM Passport Office guidance on how to deal with applications involving parental responsibility, court orders, testamentary guardians and loco parentis.
This guidance tells His Majesty’s Passport Office staff about the renunciation (giving up) of British nationality.
Information pack for partners to help raise awareness of the Windrush Scheme.
Casework instructions for how UK Visas and Immigration decides applications for citizenship.
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 providing an overview of British protected person (BPP) status and the requirements of registration.
Changes introduced by Home Office statisticians to a wide range of UK migration statistics.
Template letter to confirm that citizenship and settlement applicants have a qualification in English for speakers of other languages (ESOL).
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).
HM Passport Office guidance about parental responsibility, birth parents, adoption and surrogacy.
Immigration staff guidance on dealing with applications from British overseas territories citizens (BOTC) who have previously renounced their status.
Posters and booklets promoting the Windrush Help Team service in English, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu and Welsh.
Immigration staff guidance on who can register as a British citizen under the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1997.
Nationality instructions about how UK Visas and Immigration decides on applications from people who are stateless.
Immigration staff guidance about the registration of minors born both in and outside of the British overseas territories.
Immigration staff guidance about registration as British overseas territories citizens (BOTC) by people who would otherwise be stateless.
Immigration staff guidance on considering requests from British citizens to renounce their status.
Immigration staff guidance on processing applications from people who have previously renounced British citizenship and have applied to register as a citizen.
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