GovWire

This guidance tells His Majestys Passport Office staff about specimen passports and who can get one. It also tells staff working in the Specimen Passport team how we process specimen passports used in film and theatre for entertainment purposes.

A specimen passport is a passport issued to:

• other UK government departments

• foreign governments (foreign governments request it through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office)

• entertainment production companies

Government departments use specimen passports for training or for fraud detection. Entertainment production companies use specimen passports as props during theatre or filming.