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Guidance: Applying for a passport from outside the UK: supporting documents (group 3)

Hm Passport Office

January 7
15:15 2025

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This list is for British applicants from certain countries who are applying for a passport from outside the UK.

To now apply for your passport, use the overseas tool to find the specific advice about how to renew or apply for your passport from the country you are in.

Remember if youre a dual national, you must send a colour photocopy of your non-UK passport (every page including blank pages) as part of your application. You may be asked to show your non-British passport at a later date.

Updates to this page

Published 24 July 2013
Last updated 7 January 2025 +show all updates
  1. Updated the evidence required to apply for a passport outside the UK,

  2. Accessible version added.

  3. Updated PDF to make it clearer that someone changing nationality from BOTC to BC must send their full birth certificate.

  4. Updated list published.

  5. Updated guidance

  6. Updated guidance

  7. First published.

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