Home Office
February 5
10:38
2025
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This guidance tells HM Passport Office staff about the laws on legitimacy and advises how to confirm a customer, born before 1 July 2006, is the legitimate child of their father, for nationality purposes.
It also tells staff how to confirm where the customers father was domiciled, if needed, to establish a claim to British nationality.