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The British passport is a travel document issued by the United Kingdom or other British dependencies and territories to individuals holding any form of British nationality. It grants the bearer international passage in accordance with visa requirements and serves as proof of UK citizenship.
In some countries, for example the United Kingdom and South Africa, identity documents can also be certified by authorised post office staff. [1] A copy of a primary document that is to be used internationally may have to be in the form of a notarized copy rather than a certified copy. A notarized copy may be more expensive to obtain.
In 1991, the service became an executive agency as the United Kingdom Passport Agency (UKPA). The Identity and Passport Service was established on 1 April 2006, following the passing of the Identity Cards Act 2006 , which merged the UK Passport Service with the Home Office's Identity Cards programme to form a new executive agency .
The General Register Office for England and Wales (GRO) is the section of the United Kingdom HM Passport Office responsible for the civil registration of births (including stillbirths), adoptions, marriages, civil partnerships and deaths in England and Wales and for those same events outside the UK if they involve a UK citizen and qualify to be registered in various miscellaneous registers.
The British Certificate of Travel (COT) is an international travel document and a type of Home Office travel document issued by the UK Home Office to non-citizen residents of the United Kingdom who are unable to obtain a national passport or other conventional travel documents.
A total of 48.9 million passports were in circulation at the end of last year – down from 51.5 million in 2019. Number of UK passports plummeted 2.5 million in two years Skip to main content
The UK’s favourite anthropomorphic bear, Paddington, has been granted a British passport.. The character, full name Paddington Brown, was born and orphaned in Peru as a cub and arrived in London ...
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