Passport Application

[ForestMoon]

Hi all, We are recently post adoption order for our lovely girls.

Wondering if anyone could explain to me the process of applying for their passports?

Is the adoption order sent to us via the court the document we need to make the passport application? We've not received anything yet but the order was only made a few weeks ago.

They've never had passports before so this will be their first one if that makes any difference!

Thanks in advance

It’s the adoption certificates you send, which you can order when you get the AO paperwork back. Our passports came back within 10 days.

The AO paperwork will instruct you on how to get the certificates.

And congratulations!

Thank you so much!

And thanks for the information, that's super helpful 🙂 Tried to google but all a bit confusing!

We paid the extra for the post office to make the first application to be sure we got it right. His second one was straightforward (eg Niall process) and we did that ourselves.

One thing I found very difficult to get a definitive answer on was how to answer the question where it asks, 'Have they ever used another name?'

Numerous phone calls to both Post Adoption, Citizens Advice, Passport helpline etc didn't really clarify.

I went with, 'No' - my reasoning being that legally their birth name no longer existed on any records. It worked for us.

There is a special office that handles the adoption side, it is often worth ringing up and asking for that, if any issues. I can't remember doing ours, it was so long ago now, but I do remember having a specific address.