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Email: info@direct-visas.co.uk

First Passport

The standard 10 year British passport is only available to adults over 16 years of age who are in the UK at the time of application and who have one of the following citizenships:

• A British citizen.
• A British Dependent Territories citizen.
• A British Overseas citizen.
• A British Subject.

Documents required

• You must be able to prove that you are of British Nationality. To do this you must include the original of the relevant document/s as listed below. Copies or photocopies of any kind will not be accepted.

If you were born in the United Kingdom

• Your full birth certificate (this only applies to those applicants born on or after 1 January 1983).

If you were born outside the United Kingdom

• If naturalised, your Naturalisation Certificate.
• If registered, your Registration Certificate.

If you were born outside the UK before 31 December 1982 but father* born in UK:

• Your full birth certificate, showing both your parents' names.
• Your father's birth certificate and your parents' marriage certificate.

( *Prior to the coming into force of the British Nationality Act, 1981, a person could not claim British nationality from his or her mother )

Born outside the UK after 31 December 4982 but father born in UK:

• Your full birth certificate, showing both your parents' names.
• Your father's birth certificate and your parents' marriage certificate.

Born outside the UK after 31 December 1982 but mother born in UK:

• Your full birth certificate.
• Your mother's birth certificate.

Alternatively, if you hold a Consular birth certificate issued by a British Consulate abroad, you may submit your consular birth certificate instead of your parents' documents as listed above.

This list is not exhaustive. More complex claims to British citizenship require sight of other documents.

Married or divorced women

If you are a woman who is or who has been married in the past, we will need to see either your marriage certificate or divorce document as evidence of your change of name from your maiden name to your married name (and vice versa - if you wish to revert to your maiden name).

When your passport arrives

When you receive your passport check the details are correct and make a note of them in case the passport is ever lost or stolen.

Amending Details of your passport

Occasionally you may find it necessary to amend the details on your passport. It is worth bearing in mind that amending your passport will result in your existing passport being cancelled and a new passport being issued. Please be aware that this may invalidate any visas in the passport. You are recommended to contact the issuing authorities to confirm whether an unexpired visa in a cancelled passport remains valid.