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This guidance tells HM Passport Office examiners about passport validity, when we will issue a passport with restricted validity, and how to process an application when the customer sends us a restricted validity passport.
Published 7 February 2012 Last updated 14 November 2022 +show all updates
Updated to show when the Counter Fraud team will ask Enhanced Application Checking to issue a restricted validity passport (in the Restricted validity passports section).
