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Passports: Dual Nationality

Question for Home Office

UIN 174509, tabled on 27 March 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, under what circumstances her Department issues British passports containing a reference to the holder's dual nationality.

Answered on

4 April 2023

HM Passport Office do not make specific references to a customer’s dual nationality in their British passport.

However, there are circumstances (outlined in published guidance on GOV.UK at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/names-aligning-names-on-foreign-documents) when they will add an observation to show the customer has a foreign passport, travel document or national identity card in a different name.

The observation will name the country that the foreign passport, travel document or national identity document is from, rather than the nationality status.

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