Question follow-through · 5143

Passports: Republic of Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing (a) elected representatives from Ireland and (b) other Irish passport holders to verify UK passport applications using the HM Passpor

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 10 Sept 2024
Target answer date: 7 Oct 2024
Answer: 7 Oct 2024 · 27 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

10 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing (a) elected representatives from Ireland and (b) other Irish passport holders to verify UK passport applications using the HM Passpor
7 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Oct 2024
Answer published
As part of the criteria for a person to act as a referee to a passport application, His Majesty’s Passport Office requires that the referee must hold a passport that it can validate to confirm that person’s identity. In addition to British passport holder...

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