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Guidance: Parental responsibility: birth parents, adoption and surrogacy: caseworker guidance

Hm Passport Office

October 10
12:41 2024

This guidance tells HM Passport Office staff:

  • how birth and adoptive parents get parental responsibility
  • how to confirm a birth or adoptive parent has parental responsibility
  • to use the surrogacy guidance to establish who has parental responsibility for a child born through surrogacy

Updates to this page

Published 24 January 2024
Last updated 10 October 2024 +show all updates
  1. This guidance has been updated to tell examiners how to deal with queries relating to children being born overseas, missing documents, corrected birth certificates and confirming parental responsibilities.

  2. First published.

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