Guidance
Parental responsibility: birth parents, adoption and surrogacy: caseworker guidance
HM Passport Office guidance about parental responsibility, birth parents, adoption and surrogacy.
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- 24 January 2024
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Parental responsibility: birth parents, adoption and surrogacy
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Details
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 103 OctoberMarch 2024
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2026-03-03 14:49
Restructured and reworded to improve understanding of how to confirm parental consent for first time, renewal and replacement child applications.
2024-10-10 13:41
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.
2024-01-24 14:29
First published.
Details
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 Sign up for emails or print this page
Update history
2026-03-03 14:49
Restructured and reworded to improve understanding of how to confirm parental consent for first time, renewal and replacement child applications.
2024-10-10 13:41
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.
2024-01-24 14:29
First published.