Fillable Printable Application for United Kingdom Passport for Applicants 16 and over
Fillable Printable Application for United Kingdom Passport for Applicants 16 and over
Application for United Kingdom Passport for Applicants 16 and over
Use this form if you are applying for a United Kingdom passport and are a British citizen, British
Overseas Territories citizen, British Overseas citizen, British subject or British protected person.
The fee for the passport is payable in local currency at the time of application. A consular premium
is included in the fee to provide consular assistance to distressed British nationals. Where the new
passport is to be sent to you by post, please send the appropriate postal charges (including
registered post fee) with the remittance.
Dual nationality: if you possess the nationality or citizenship of another country, you may lose this
when you acquire a British passport. Please check with the authorities of the other country before
making your application.
☺ How long does it take to get a passport? Wherever possible, please submit the application,
whether by post or in person, at least 4 weeks before you need the passport. If you enter a Date
of Travel above we will try to issue the passport before then.
There is a separate sheet of Notes to help you complete the form. Please refer to these whenever the form tells you to, and follow symbols,
e.g. # to INTERPRETATION for definitions at the back of the form. Information contained in this form and on the passport record to which this
application relates may be passed to other government organisations and law enforcement agencies for the purpose of checking your
application and in the subsequent use of any passport issued as a result of this application.
Please complete Passport Holder’s name (and use ink and capital letters, if handwriting)
Initials
Family name
Date of Travel ☺
NB. You must be in the country where this application is being made.
If you do not complete all of the sections as indicated, your
application will likely be refused
THE SPACE BELOW IS FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Issue Status
BNA 1981
BNA 1948
IA 1971
Form
Next action
Observations
Type of service required
If you have one you should submit your previous British passport with this application.
Please tick the following box(es) as appropriate. This is:
A your first standard UK passport or a replacement for a standard UK passport that is lost or otherwise unavailable
.........................................................................................................................First Passport.... Lost/Unavailable ..................
B the renewal of your existing standard UK passport..........................................................................................................................
C a change of personal particulars or extension..................................New Name .......... New Photo...............................
Extending the validity period....................................
Do you wish to pay for a 48 page passport? ................................................................................................................................... (See Note 9)
Please
initial here
Application for United Kingdom
Passport for applicants 16 and over
Do NOT use this form if
you are under 16 – use Form C2;
you are a British National
(Overseas) through having a
connection with Hong Kong–use
Form BNO-A.
(Forms obtainable from any British
Consulate or High Commission)
Read this section
before you
complete the form
For Official Use
Passport Number
....................................................................
See Notes 2 and 3 and then complete this section
Father’s# details
His full name, family name first
His town and country of birth
His date of birth
His citizenship at the time of your birth, and if he was not a British
citizen, his immigration status in the United Kingdom*
If he has a British passport give:
Number of passport
Place and date of issue
If he became a British subject, citizen of the United Kingdom and
colonies, British citizen, British Dependent/Overseas Territories
citizen, British Overseas citizen or British protected person by
naturalisation or registration give:
Number of his citizenship document
Place and date of issue
Mother’s details
Her full name, family name first
Her town and country of birth
Her date of birth
Her citizenship at the time of your birth, and if she was not a British
citizen, her immigration status in the United Kingdom*
If she has a British passport give:
Number of passport
Place and date of issue
If she became a British subject, citizen of the United Kingdom and
colonies, British citizen, British Dependent/Overseas Territories
citizen, British Overseas citizen or British protected person by
naturalisation or registration give:
Number of her citizenship document
Place and date of issue
Parents’ marriage
Date of marriage
Place of marriage
If neither parent was born in the United Kingdom* or a qualifying
territory
`
or naturalised/registered as a British national, please
give town, country and date of birth of all four grandparents in
Section 7 and then return to Section 3.
Go to Section 3
Were you born after 31 December 1982,
or outside the United Kingdom* or a
qualifying territory
`
?
Yes No
Please use ink and capital letters, if handwriting
Write all dates using the format dd/mm/yy
To be completed by all applicants
Tick box(es) as appropriate
Your details
Mr Mrs Miss Ms Other (Please state)
Family name
Christian or given names
Maiden surname (if applicable)
Married Single Widowed Divorced Separated
Age last birthday Sex: Male Female
Permanent address (if return address is different please enter in Section 7)
Postcode
Daytime telephone no.
(we may need to get in touch with you urgently)
Town of birth
Country of birth
Date of birth
Have you changed your name other than by
marriage or adoption?
Yes No
What was your previous name?
Were you born in a foreign country and your
birth registered at a British Consulate?
Yes No
Name of British Consulate
Date of registration
See Note 1 and then complete details of citizenship documents
Number of document
Place of issue
Date of issue
Go to Section 2
Were you naturalised or registered as a
British subject, citizen of the United
Kingdom and Colonies, British citizen,
British Dependent/Overseas Territories
citizen, British Overseas citizen or British
protected person?
Yes No
Please
initial here
See Note 4 then complete this section
Town and country of marriage
Date of marriage
Husband’s details (includes former or late husband)
His full name, family name first
His town and country of birth
His date of birth His nationality
If applicable
Date of divorce Date of death
Did he become a British subject, by his own naturalisation or
registration?
Yes No
Number of his citizenship document
Place and date of issue
Did he become a British subject, by descent through his father?#
Yes No
Father’s# full name, family name first
Father’s# town and country of birth
Father’s# date of birth
Did his father# acquire his British nationality by naturalisation or
registration?
Yes No
Number of father’s# citizenship document
Place and date of issue
Have you been married more than once?
Yes No
Please give details, as above, in respect of each of your husbands in
Section 7 and then return to Section 4
Are you a married, widowed or divorced
woman whose claim to British nationality is
through marriage to a British man before
1 January 1949?
Yes No
Was your husband born outside the United
Kingdom*?
Yes No
Have you had any sort of passport or travel
document before or been included in one? Yes No
Is the previous passport or travel
document attached? Yes No
Previous passport number
Go to Section 6
Number issued at
in (year)
Your name at the time of issue
How the passport was lost,
or why it is not available
Date and place of loss
When the loss was reported to the police,
and where
Have you lost a British passport before? Yes No
Please give details in Section 7 and then return to Section 6
Please give the names of two relatives or friends who can be contacted
if you meet with an accident. This information will only be used in an
emergency.
Name
Address
Postcode
Tel. number Relationship (if any)
Name
Address
Postcode
Tel. number Relationship (if any)
Go to Section 8
Give details of previous passport which has
been lost or is not available. You also need
to complete an LSO1 form.
See Note 6
To be completed by all applicants
Please
initial here
Previous Passport
See Note 5
I, (full name of parent/guardian).....................................................................................
declare that my rights in respect of
.........................................................................................................(insert name of child)
have not been limited in any way by the order of any court having
jurisdiction over him/her.
Signature of parent/guardian Date
Relationship to child (e.g. Father#, Mother)
Address
Go to Section 9
Printed in the United Kingdom for SPSL 004733 08/03
I, the undersigned, declare that
1 I have not previously held a passport of any description, or been
included in one, other than that stated above.
2 I have made no other application for a passport, other than that
stated above.
3 I am, today, in the country of application and will be at the time
of issue.
4 (delete if not appropriate) If the passport mentioned in Section 5
comes again into my possession, I will return it immediately to a British
passport issuing authority.
5 I do not owe money to Her Majesty’s Government for repatriation or
similar relief.
6 I have not been adopted outside the United Kingdom* or a qualifying
territory
`
, except as mentioned in Section 7.
7 I am a; British citizen or
British Overseas Territories citizen or
British Overseas citizen or
British subject or
British protected person
and I have not lost or renounced this status.
8 All information given in this application is correct to the best of my
knowledge and belief.
Sign in box Date
IMPORTANT - KEEP WITHIN BORDER.
Failure to comply with this instruction will invalidate the application.
Go to Section 10
Countersignature. THIS SECTION MUST BE
COMPLETED BY THE COUNTERSIGNATORY
See Note 8
1 Please read the CAUTION below
2 Endorse the back of the photograph by writing ‘I certify that this is a
true likeness of (insert name of applicant)’ and add your signature, and
the date on which the likeness was compared. Read what the applicant
has put on this form, and
3 Complete the following in ink and capital letters.
I, (insert your full name)
certify that the applicant (whose signature appears in Section 9) has been
known personally to me for years, and that to the best of my
knowledge and belief the facts stated on this form are correct.
I am a British citizen/citizen of (insert country)
SIGN
Profession (and professional
qualifications)
Name of firm, business address
or official stamp (if applicable)
Current British passport number (if applicable)
Daytime telephone number Date
Checklist
When you have completed the form
Please check that you have enclosed all of the following:-
Photographs (one certified on back)–See Note 10 .........
Fee–See Note 11.......................................................................
Documents–See Note 12 ........................................................
and remember to sign the form at Section 9 ‘Declaration’ and if you
are 16 or 17, a parent/guardian should sign Section 8 ‘Declaration of
parent (or guardian)’
It is IMPORTANT that all applicants read notes
Declaration of parent (or guardian)
(If applicant is 16 or 17 years of age, otherwise go to
Section 9) See Note 7
CAUTION
You are warned that the making of an untrue statement for the
purpose of procuring a passport is a criminal offence. A check
may be made on the authenticity of countersignatories. The
application should not be countersigned until the form has been
completed, signed and dated by the applicant.
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Other information
Declaration
To be signed by all applicants
Note 1 - Birth after 31 December 1982 in the
United Kingdom
Tick “Yes” if you were born after 31 December 1982 in the
United Kingdom.
Because birth in the United Kingdom after 31 December 1982 does not
automatically confer British citizenship, additional information is required to
establish your national status under the provisions of the British Nationality
Act 1981, which came into effect on 1 January 1983. Section 2 should
therefore be completed if you were born after 31 December 1982.
Section 2 need not be completed if you obtained your citizenship by
registration or naturalisation from the Immigration and Nationality
Directorate of the Home Office in the United Kingdom.
Note 2
Section 3 should be filled in if you became a British subject or citizen of the
United Kingdom and Colonies by naturalisation or registration before 1
January 1983, or if you have become a British citizen, British Dependent
Territories citizen, British Overseas citizen, British protected person or
British subject by naturalisation or registration on or after that date. You
should forward your citizenship document(s) with the completed form.
Note 3
Section 4 should be filled in if you were born outside England, Scotland,
Wales and Northern Ireland. But it need not be filled in if you became a
British subject, citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies, British citizen,
British Dependent Territories citizen, or British Overseas citizen by
naturalisation or by registration at the Home Office, London.
If you were born in a foreign country, in the Republic of Ireland, or in a part
of the Commonwealth other than a place which is still a dependent territory
you may be able to claim British citizenship, British Dependent Territories
citizenship or British Overseas citizenship through your father if he was a
British subject and citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies. But if your
father also was born outside England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland,
you should give in section 8 the town, country and date of birth, or claim to
British nationality of your paternal grandfather (your father’s father) in case
you have a claim to British nationality by descent from him (although this
situation is rare).
Note 4
Part A should be filled in unless you are returning a standard British
passport which was issued in your present name and you were not born
outside England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
If you have been married more than once, details of any previous marriage(s)
– i.e. former husband’s full names, his nationality, his town, country and date
of birth, date of marriage, date of divorce (if applicable), date of former
husband’s death (if applicable) – should be given in section 5a.
Part B should also be filled in if your husband was born outside England,
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and if his father was born outside
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the town, country and date
of birth or claim to British nationality of your husband’s paternal grandfather
(his father’s father) should be given in section 5b.
Note 5
Please give as much information as you can. A new passport can be issued
only after extensive enquiries.
Note 6
Section 10 should be filled in and signed by a parent if the applicant is
under 18 years of age, except where the applicant is married, (in which
case the marriage certificate should be produced) or is enlisted in HM
Forces. If the parent is not available to sign the form, he/she must write a
letter of consent. The letter should be sent in with the application. If the
applicant is illegitimate, consent should be given by the mother.
Note 7
When you have completed the form, section 12 should be completed and
signed by a British citizen, or other Commonwealth citizen, who has known
you personally for at least two years and who is a Member of Parliament,
Justice of the Peace, Minister of Religion, Bank Officer, Established Civil
Servant, professionally qualified person, e.g. Lawyer, Engineer, Doctor,
School Teacher, Police Officer or a person of similar standing.
If you do not know a British citizen or other Commonwealth citizen locally
with these qualifications, the form may be completed and signed by a citizen
of the country in which you are residing, provided he/she has a similar
standing in that country and the Consul considers his/her signature to be
acceptable. A member of your family should not countersign. (See also
note 11, ‘Photographs’.) In certain cases you may be asked to produce
further documentary evidence of identity.
United Kingdom
Passport Application
❊ Notes for FORM C1
Please keep these Notes until you receive
your passport
Note 8
A standard United Kingdom passport of 32 pages is adequate for most
travellers and is valid for 10 years.
However, a passport of 48 pages is available for people who travel
frequently and quickly fill the visa pages of a standard passport. This
passport is also valid for a maximum of 10 years.
When you apply for a new passport, you must give up any previous passport
for cancellation. A new passport may not be post-dated to the date of expiry
of a previous passport.
Note 9
DOCUMENTS TO BE PRODUCED
Photocopies of birth, marriage or naturalisation certificates or
registration documents are NOT acceptable for passport purposes.
These tables show which documents you should produce with your
application. Please read all the sections that apply to you and make sure
that you submit the right documents.
Documents are not normally needed if you are surrendering an unrestricted
British passport issued after 1 January 1983 and all the details are the same.
Because birth in the United Kingdom after 31 December 1982 does not
automatically confer British citizenship, in some cases you may be asked for
additional information and documentation to establish national status under
the provisions of the British Nationality Act 1981 which came into effect on
1 January 1983.
TABLE 1
BIRTH OR ADOPTION BEFORE 1 JANUARY 1983
A. If you were born in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland,
the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or a place which is still a
Dependent Territory.
All applicants
Full birth or adoption certificate. If in doubt, read note i, ‘Birth certificate’
Women who are or have been married and married men under 18
Marriage certificate or divorce documents showing details of the marriage.
If in doubt, read note ii, ‘Marriage certificate’
B. If you were born outside England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the
Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, and a place which is still a Dependent
Territory, of a father who was a British subject and citizen of the United
Kingdom and Colonies, and who became, or but for his death would have
become, a British citizen, a British Dependent Territories citizen or a
British Overseas citizen under the provisions of the British Nationality Act
1981, OR
if you were born before 1 January 1949 in a Protectorate, Protected
State or Trust Territory of a British father.
All applicants
Consular birth certificate and evidence of father’s citizenship of the United
Kingdom and Colonies if this is not shown on the consular birth certificate
(see note i) OR
Full local or High Commission or Forces birth certificate showing parents’
names; parents’ marriage certificate, and father’s birth certificate, naturali-
sation or registration document, or other evidence of father’s national status
(see note i).
Women who are or have been married and married men under 18
Marriage certificate or divorce documents showing details of the marriage.
Evidence of termination of previous marriage if either parent has been mar-
ried before (see note ii).
C. If you are a British subject, a British citizen, a British Dependent
Territories citizen, a British Overseas citizen or citizen of the United
Kingdom and Colonies by naturalisation or registration.
All applicants
Documents of naturalisation or registration.
Women who are or have been married and married men under 18
Marriage certificate or divorce documents showing details of the marriage
(see note ii).
D. If you were a British subject before 1st January 1949, through your own
or your father’s birth or naturalisation in British India or in the Republic of
Ireland and have remained a British subject.
All applicants
Documentary evidence of your birth or naturalisation in British India or in the
Republic of Ireland or documentary evidence of legitimate descent from a
father born or naturalised in those territories (see note i).
Women who are married or have been married
Marriage certificate showing details of the marriage (see note ii).
E. If you were born outside England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the
Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, and a place which is still a Dependent
Territory, and you acquired citizenship of the United Kingdom and
Colonies by adoption in the United Kingdom between 1st January 1950
and 31 December 1982, inclusive.
Adoption overseas does NOT by itself confer British nationality.
If adopted outside the United Kingdom or a place which is still a dependent
territory, you should state the place and date of adoption, and nationality of
adoptive parents, in section 8 or consult the nearest British
Embassy/Consulate/High Commission.
All applicants
Full adoption certificate showing names of adoptive parent(s) and documen-
tary evidence that the adoptive parent was a British subject and citizen of
the United Kingdom and Colonies (see note i).
Women who are or have been married and married men under 18
Marriage certificate showing details of the marriage (see note ii).
F. If you acquired British nationality by marriage before 1st January 1949
All applicants
Birth certificate (or previous standard blue British passport). Marriage
certificate showing details of the marriage. Documents establishing your
husband’s (or former husband’s) nationality as at a, b, c or d above (see
note ii).
TABLE 2
If name has been changed otherwise than by marriage or adoption
Documents as in Table 1 AND
Documentary evidence (e.g. deed poll, statutory declaration) that your name
has been changed for all purposes.
Note i. Birth certificate
If you were born in England or Wales you can obtain a birth certificate from
the General Register Office, Smedley Hydro, Trafalgar Road, Birkdale,
Southport, Merseyside, PR8 2HH. The despatch of certificates may be
expedited if when you write you state full particulars of yourself, date and
place of birth (full address) and full names of parents including mother’s
maiden name.
For births which occurred in Scotland, Northern Ireland or the Irish Republic
you can apply respectively to the Registrar-General, New Register House,
Edinburgh EH1 3YT; the Registrar-General, Oxford House, 49-55 Chichester
Street, Belfast BT1 4HL; the Registrar-General, Joyce House, 8-11 Lombard
Street East, Dublin 2.
Postal applications for certificates from the Adopted Children Register (from
1 January 1927) should be addressed to the General Register Office,
Smedley Hydro, Trafalgar Road, Birkdale, Southport, Merseyside, PR8 2HH,
with the envelope marked clearly for the adoption section.
For children adopted in Scotland, copies of certificates from the Adopted
Children Registrar are obtainable only from New Register House.
For children adopted in Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland you can
apply respectively to the Registrar-General, Oxford House, 49-55 Chichester
Street, Belfast BT1, or the Registrar-General, Joyce House, 8-11 Lombard
Street East, Dublin 2.
Note ii. Marriage certificate
A married (or widowed, or divorced woman) applying for a separate
passport is not normally required to produce her marriage certificate if she
is surrendering her previous United Kingdom Passport in the same married
name, or if she can produce a previous United Kingdom family passport in
the same name.
Note 10
Fee
The fee for a United Kingdom Passport is payable in local currency at the
time of the application.
Note 11
Photographs
Please send two identical copies of a RECENT photograph of yourself.
The photographs should be in colour and taken full face without a hat, and
must have a white background. The size should be 45 mm by 35 mm (1.77
inches by 1.38 inches). They should be printed on normal thin photographic
paper and be unmounted.
The person who countersigns your application (see note 7) should also
write on the back of ONE photograph the words ‘I certify that this is a true
likeness of ...’ and add his/her signature and the date.
Note 12
How to submit your application
Wherever possible please submit your application at least four weeks before
you need your passport.
Having filled in and signed the form, please complete the checklist
on the back of the form.
British Nationality Act 1981
The British Nationality Act 1981 created three new citizenship categories to
take the place of citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies. These
are:–
A. British citizenship for those persons with a close connection with the
United Kingdom;
B. British Dependent Territories citizenship for those persons with a close
connection with a British Dependent Territory; and
C. British Overseas citizenship for those citizens of the United Kingdom and
Colonies who have no close connection with the United Kingdom or an
existing British Dependent Territory.
From 1 January 1983 no endorsement about immigration status is
necessary on passports issued to British citizens as they are automatically
exempt from United Kingdom immigration control and have the right to take
up employment or to establish themselves in business or other self-
employed activity in another member state of the European Union.*‡
However, it will continue to be necessary to determine the immigration
status under the Immigration Act 1971 of all applicants for passports.
Citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies born before 1 January 1983
will normally have become British citizens if they had the right of abode in
the United Kingdom. Passports issued to British Overseas citizens, British
subjects or British protected persons will continue to be endorsed to show
their immigration status under that act. British subjects, with a parent born
in Southern Ireland before 31 March 1922, also have the right of abode in
the United Kingdom. Their passports will continue to bear the endorsement
“Holder has the right of abode in the United Kingdom” and this endorsement
will secure for the holders the right to benefit from the EU provisions relating
to the free movement of persons.
If
A. you or your father†: were born in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern
Ireland, the Channel Islands‡ or the Isle of Man‡, or before 31 March,
1922 in Southern Ireland, or
B. you or your father†: were naturalised in England, Scotland, Wales,
Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands‡ or the Isle of Man‡, or before 31
March, 1922 in Southern Ireland, or
C. you or your father†: became a citizen of the United Kingdom and
Colonies by adoption or registration§ in England, Scotland, Wales,
Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands‡ or the Isle of Man‡.
Your immigration status will be apparent from the passport application and
no separate action is necessary, although in certain circumstances you may
be asked for additional information in order to determine that status. If you
do not fall within the categories mentioned above, please ask for an
additional form and submit it with the application.
Footnotes
*The relevant Member States of the EU are AUSTRIA, BELGIUM, DENMARK,
FINLAND, FRANCE, GERMANY, GREECE, IRISH REPUBLIC, ITALY, LUXEM-
BOURG, NETHERLANDS, PORTUGAL, SPAIN and SWEDEN.
†”Father” does not for this purpose include the father of an
illegitimate child.
‡The EU provisions relating to the free movement of labour and the right of
establishment do not apply to Channel Islanders and Manxmen unless they
can show that they have a close connection with the United Kingdom itself
through birth, descent, adoption, naturalisation, registration or residence.
They may, therefore, be asked for information to determine whether such a
connection exists, where it does not the passport will be endorsed to the
effect that the holder is not entitled to benefit from EU provisions relating to
employment or establishment.
§ Acquisition of citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies by registration:
A. includes registration by a United Kingdom High Commissioner in a
Commonwealth country except the registration of a minor effected after
27 October, 1971.
B. does not include registration in a territory which was at the time a
colony, protectorate, protected state or United Kingdom trust territory.
C. does not include registration of a woman by virtue of marriage to a
citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies where the marriage took
place after 27 October, 1971.
