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Guidance: Aligning names on foreign documents: caseworker guidance

Hm Passport Office

March 5
08:34 2024

Names: aligning names on foreign documents

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This guidance tells HM Passport Office staff:

  • what the customer must do (before we issue them with a passport)
  • when we will consider issuing a passport using the name on a passport application (even if it does not match the name on the customers foreign document)
Published 4 March 2021
Last updated 5 March 2024 +show all updates
  1. Updated the Names: aligning names on foreign documents guidance to make minor formatting changes.

  2. This guidance has been updated to reflect the change in our sovereign from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to His Majesty King Charles III.

  3. Accessible version added.

  4. First published.

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