GovWire

This guidance tells HM Passport Office staff:

• what surrogacy is and the types of surrogacy
• the roles of people involved in a surrogacy (for example, the surrogate mother and commissioning (the childs intended) parents)
• to confirm who can consent to the issuing of a passport for a child born through surrogacy
• to confirm the childs claim to British nationality
• what documents are needed (when a child is born through surrogacy) to establish nationality, identity and entitlement to a British passport
• how you consider vulnerability and safeguarding when dealing with an application involving surrogacy