Passports: Applications
Commons · Question 40088 · Tabled 20 Mar 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Vikki Slade
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of HM Passport Office accepting multilingual standardised birth certificates as part of passport applications for the children of British par
Answer
Answered by Seema Malhotra, 26 Mar 2025
His Majesty’s Passport Office requires customers to provide a full birth certificate, issued in the country of birth, as part of a passport application. Multilingual Standard Forms do not meet this criteria: they are an extract of a civil registration rec...