Paper Check & Send: Preparing for your application

The Paper Check & Send service cost £16, this includes the delivery fee to send your supporting documents to HMPO by Special Delivery. This fee is on top of what you have to pay HMPO for your passport. The cost of a new passport via a paper application is £58.50 for a Child and £85 for an Adult (not including the Check & Send fee and any fee incurred for taking compliant photos).

Have you changed your name by marriage or civil partnership?

• Marriage certificate, or
• Civil partnership certificate

Are you are going back to your maiden or unmarried name? Or to a previous name once used?

• one document from List A below
• a signed statement saying that you now use your maiden name for all purposes
• your birth certificate
• your marriage certificate showing both names
• your decree absolute (if applicable)
• evidence of all previous names from List B below

Do you want to travel in your new name shortly after getting married or forming a civil partnership?

• Completed PD2 form (post dated form)
• See www.gov.uk/changing-passport-information for advice and to download the PD2 form.

Are you changing the name on a child passport?

• a signed statement from everyone that has parental responsibility for the child saying they give permission to the name change, or
• a court order allowing the change of name and both of the following:
• one piece of evidence from List A below
• at least one piece of evidence from List B below

Are you are changing the spelling of your name slightly? e.g. Bryan to Brian, changing the order your forenames appear in your passport or dropping a forename?

You must provide either:

• one document from List A and one document from List B below, or
• two documents from List A below

Are you changing your name following gender re-assignment?

• Gender recognition certificate or re-registered birth certificate
• Or alternatively a letter from your doctor or medical consultant together with:
• one document from List A below, and
• at least one document from List B below

Are you changing your name for any other reason?

• one document from List A below, and
• at least one document from List B below

List A – please provide one document which confirms your name in current use

• Tax record eg a letter from a tax authority
• National identity card or equivalent
• Employment record eg an official letter from your employer
• Visa or residence permit
• Educational record eg a school report
• Letter sent to you from a central, regional or local government department
• Driving Licence
• Medical/health card
• Voter’s card
• Bank statement
• Baptism/Confirmation certificate

List B – please provide one document that shows each name change that has taken place

• Marriage certificate
• Civil partnership certificate
• Gender recognition certificate
• Enrolled deed poll
• Un-enrolled deed poll (change of name deed) signed in both your old and new names
• Certificate of naturalisation or registration
• Statutory declaration or affidavit signed in your new name
• Birth certificate (upon re-registration)
• Certificate from the Court of the Lord Lyon of Scotland
• Adoption order/certificate

HM Passport Office classes a passport as damaged if:

• details are indecipherable
• the laminate has lifted enough to allow the possibility of photo substitution
• discolouration to the bio-data page
• chemical or ink spillage on any page
• missing or detached pages
• the chip or antenna shows through the end paper on the back cover for the new style e-passports
• the chip has been identified as damaged after investigation

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