Guidance

Cancelling British passports

Information for Her Majesty’s Passport Office operational staff about how to physically and electronically cancel a British passport.

• From: HM Passport Office
• Published: 13 January 2012
• Last updated: 7 May 2021, see all updates

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Cancelling British passports

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Details

This guidance tells Her Majesty’s Passport Office staff how to:

• physically cancel all types of British passports
• electronically cancel a passport record on Main Index

Published 13 January 2012
Last updated 7 May 2021 + show all updates

1. 7 May 2021

   This guidance has been updated to tell you when you need to manually cancel passports on Main Index.

2. 13 January 2012

   First published.