Category: Home Office Documents

This guidance has been updated to remove reference to the Application Management System.

An updated version of the detention services order (DSO) and Annex A1 and B has been published.

First published.

Published a new version of detention services order 6/2015. See the revision history in the document for full details.

This guidance has been updated to explain the new UK series D e-passport is being introduced from December 2025.

This guidance has been updated to tell examiners they must only remove the original full DNA report when the application, and any other applications the document is associated with, are […]

Updated to add a new section, ‘Name changes: nationals with a Turkish and Bulgarian background’.

Updated in the change of name and name alignment sections to show when an Ireland passport cannot be aligned.

Updated to tell examiners that Costa Rica nationals can change their family name.