Going and being abroad

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Services

1. Apply online for a UK passport

   You can apply for, update, renew or replace a passport online

2. Renew or replace your adult passport

   How to apply, how long it takes, how much it costs, track your application, unexpired visas, replacing a damaged passport

3. Get a passport photo

   Rules for digital and printed passport photos and how to get one

4. Get a passport for your child

   Get a passport for your child or baby - renewals and first child passports, application form, supporting paperwork, eligibility, costs

5. Passport advice and complaints

   Contact Her Majesty's Passport Office (previously the Identity and Passport Service) advice line - telephone, text relay, textphone, opening hours

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Guidance and regulation

1. Travel advice: coronavirus (COVID-19)
   • Detailed guide
   • 24 April 2020
   • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
2. Waiting to return to the UK during coronavirus (COVID-19)
   • Detailed guide
   • 8 April 2020
   • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
3. Coronavirus (COVID-19) essential international travel guidance
   • Detailed guide
   • 17 March 2020
   • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
4. Coronavirus (COVID-19) emergency loans for return flights: how to apply
   • Detailed guide
   • 14 April 2020
   • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
5. Booking special charter flights during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
   • Detailed guide
   • 24 April 2020
   • Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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News and communications

30 April 2020 — World news story

Panama City hotels during coronavirus (COVID-19)

1. Fifth round of charter flights from India announced
   • 30 April 2020
   • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
   • Press release
2. Meeting British citizens across Italy
   • 30 April 2020
   • World news story
3. Another 900 British travellers in New Zealand set to return to the UK
   • 30 April 2020
   • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
   • Press release
4. Charter flight from Guyana for stranded British nationals
   • 29 April 2020
   • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
   • Press release

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Research and statistics

1. Upcoming methodological improvements to overseas travel and tourism estimates
   • 18 March 2020
   • Office for National Statistics
   • Official statistics
2. Overseas travel and tourism: November and December 2019 provisional results
   • 28 February 2020
   • Office for National Statistics
   • National statistics
3. Overseas travel and tourism, provisional: July to September 2019
   • 24 January 2020
   • Office for National Statistics
   • National statistics
4. Overseas travel and tourism: October 2019 provisional results
   • 24 January 2020
   • Office for National Statistics
   • National statistics
5. Travelpac: July to September 2019
   • 24 January 2020
   • Office for National Statistics
   • National statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

1. Consultation on the UK’s Foreign Travel Advice service
   • 25 April 2017
   • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 22 April 2016
2. Pet travel: planned changes to the EU scheme
   • 14 November 2014
   • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 14 September 2014
3. Coronavirus (COVID-19) government-assisted return by air: letter to the airline industry
   • 30 March 2020
   • Department for Transport and Foreign & Commonwealth Office
   • Policy paper
4. 2010 to 2015 government policy: British nationals overseas
   • 8 May 2015
   • Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Ministry of Defence
   • Policy paper
5. HM Passport Office annual report and accounts, 2013 to 2014
   • 22 July 2014
   • HM Passport Office
   • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. Foreign & Commonwealth Office consular data 2020
   • 9 April 2020
   • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
   • Transparency
2. Foreign & Commonwealth Office consular data 2019
   • 13 January 2020
   • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
   • Transparency
3. Foreign & Commonwealth Office consular data 2018
   • 25 February 2019
   • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
   • Transparency
4. Foreign & Commonwealth Office consular data 2017
   • 25 February 2019
   • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
   • Transparency
5. FOI release: FCO advice to Tui Ltd after terror attack in Tunisia
   • 7 September 2018
   • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
   • Foi release

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Organisations

1. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
2. HM Passport Office
3. Department of Health & Social Care
4. Home Office
5. Ministry of Defence

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1. Department for International Development
2. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
3. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
4. Department for Transport
5. HM Revenue & Customs
6. Animal & Plant Health Agency
7. Department for Work & Pensions
8. Public Health England
9. Border Force
10. UK Visas and Immigration
11. Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency
12. HM Courts & Tribunals Service
13. Cabinet Office
14. Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
15. Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland
16. Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain
17. Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority
18. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
19. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
20. Department for Education
21. Department for International Trade
22. Government Actuary's Department
23. HM Treasury
24. Ministry of Justice
25. Office for Product Safety & Standards
26. Official Solicitor and Public Trustee
27. Rural Payments Agency

1. Natural England
2. Student Loans Company

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1. British nationals overseas
2. Living abroad
3. Passports
4. Travel abroad