Assisted reproduction: caseworker guidance
His Majesty’s Passport Office guidance on how to deal with applications involving assisted reproduction.
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This guidance tells His Majesty’s Passport Office staff:
- what assisted reproduction is and the impact it has on passport applications
- why a passport application involving surrogacy (an example of assisted reproduction) has different requirements
- how to establish a customer’s parents to confirm their claim to British nationality and legal parentage
- how to deal with a passport application involving assisted reproduction, including what documents are needed to establish nationality, identity and entitlement to a British passport
If you are dealing with a passport application involving surrogacy, you must use the surrogacy guidance.
Updates to this page
Published 31 October 2023
Last updated 2 July 2025
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Guidance updated with a terminology change in relation to DNA testing for British passport applications, and to remove references to Application Management System (AMS).
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First published.
Update history
2026-08-12 14:54
This guidance has been updated in the Nationality: child conceived on or after 6 April 2009 section to confirm you must follow the definition of parents for nationality purposes guidance and in the Mother: not married or not in a civil partnership section to confirm another example of additional evidence.
2025-07-02 11:38
Guidance updated with a terminology change in relation to DNA testing for British passport applications, and to remove references to Application Management System (AMS).
2023-10-31 13:29
First published.
Details
This guidance tells His Majesty’s Passport Office staff:
- what assisted reproduction is and the impact it has on passport applications
- why a passport application involving surrogacy (an example of assisted reproduction) has different requirements
- how to establish a customer’s parents to confirm their claim to British nationality and legal parentage
- how to deal with a passport application involving assisted reproduction, including what documents are needed to establish nationality, identity and entitlement to a British passport
If you are dealing with a passport application involving surrogacy, you must use the surrogacy guidance.
Updates to this page
Published 31 October 2023
Last updated 2 July 2025
href="#full-history">+ show all updates
-
Guidance updated with a terminology change in relation to DNA testing for British passport applications, and to remove references to Application Management System (AMS).
-
First published.
Update history
2026-08-12 14:54
This guidance has been updated in the Nationality: child conceived on or after 6 April 2009 section to confirm you must follow the definition of parents for nationality purposes guidance and in the Mother: not married or not in a civil partnership section to confirm another example of additional evidence.
2025-07-02 11:38
Guidance updated with a terminology change in relation to DNA testing for British passport applications, and to remove references to Application Management System (AMS).
2023-10-31 13:29
First published.
Details
This guidance tells His Majesty’s Passport Office staff:
- what assisted reproduction is and the impact it has on passport applications
- why a passport application involving surrogacy (an example of assisted reproduction) has different requirements
- how to establish a customer’s parents to confirm their claim to British nationality and legal parentage
- how to deal with a passport application involving assisted reproduction, including what documents are needed to establish nationality, identity and entitlement to a British passport
If you are dealing with a passport application involving surrogacy, you must use the surrogacy guidance.
Updates to this page
-
Guidance updated with a terminology change in relation to DNA testing for British passport applications, and to remove references to Application Management System (AMS).
-
First published.
Update history
2026-08-12 14:54
This guidance has been updated in the Nationality: child conceived on or after 6 April 2009 section to confirm you must follow the definition of parents for nationality purposes guidance and in the Mother: not married or not in a civil partnership section to confirm another example of additional evidence.
2025-07-02 11:38
Guidance updated with a terminology change in relation to DNA testing for British passport applications, and to remove references to Application Management System (AMS).
2023-10-31 13:29
First published.