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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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 2024Last updated 10 October 2024 + show all updates
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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.
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