Guidance
Surrogacy: caseworker guidance
Guidance for HM Passport Office staff on how to deal with applications involving surrogacy (a type of assisted reproduction).
- From:
- HM Passport Office
- Published
- 30 January 2024
- Last updated
- 5 June 2025 — See all updates
Documents
Surrogacy: caseworker guidance
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Details
This guidance tells HM Passport Office staff:
- what surrogacy is and the types of surrogacy
- the roles of people involved in a surrogacy (for example, the surrogate mother and commissioning (the child’s intended) parents)
- to confirm who can consent to the issuing of a passport for a child born through surrogacy
- to confirm the child’s claim to British nationality
- what documents are needed (when a child is born through surrogacy) to establish nationality, identity and entitlement to a British passport
- how you consider vulnerability and safeguarding when dealing with an application involving surrogacy
Updates to this page
Published 30 January 2024
Last updated 5 June 2025
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Updated with minor terminology changes in relation to international applications.
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First published.
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Surrogacy: caseworker guidance
PDF, 428324 KB, 37 pages
This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.
Request an accessible format.
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email alternativeformats@homeoffice.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.
Details
This guidance tells HM Passport Office staff:
- what surrogacy is and the types of surrogacy
- the roles of people involved in a surrogacy (for example, the surrogate mother and commissioning (the child’s intended) parents)
- to confirm who can consent to the issuing of a passport for a child born through surrogacy
- to confirm the child’s claim to British nationality
- what documents are needed (when a child is born through surrogacy) to establish nationality, identity and entitlement to a British passport
- how you consider vulnerability and safeguarding when dealing with an application involving surrogacy
Updates to this page
Published 30 January 2024
Last updated 5 June 2025
href="#full-history">+ show all updates
-
Updated with minor terminology changes in relation to international applications.
-
First published.
Sign up for emails or print this page
Details
This guidance tells HM Passport Office staff:
- what surrogacy is and the types of surrogacy
- the roles of people involved in a surrogacy (for example, the surrogate mother and commissioning (the child’s intended) parents)
- to confirm who can consent to the issuing of a passport for a child born through surrogacy
- to confirm the child’s claim to British nationality
- what documents are needed (when a child is born through surrogacy) to establish nationality, identity and entitlement to a British passport
- how you consider vulnerability and safeguarding when dealing with an application involving surrogacy
Updates to this page
Published 30 January 2024
Last updated 5 June 2025
href="#full-history">+ show all updates
-
Updated with minor terminology changes in relation to international applications.
-
First published.