United Kingdom First Adult Passport Application

This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice. It documents the provenance of the published fields and flow and states the current verification claim honestly.

Current claim

• status: draft
• verification.method: manual-source-review-v1
• verification.lastVerifiedAt: 2026-07-01

The document was derived from and cross-checked against the official sources below, but the full field-by-field comparison the practice requires (manual-source-review-v1 → Procedure step 2) has not yet been completed and recorded against the live online application at HMPO's authenticated application portal. It therefore remains draft, not verified.

Sources examined

• Document (id, version): gb/hmpo/passport-application-first-adult / 1.0.0
• Spec version: GovSchema 0.2.0
• Authority: His Majesty's Passport Office (HMPO).
• Primary source URL: https://www.gov.uk/apply-first-adult-passport
• Secondary sources:
  • https://www.gov.uk/apply-first-adult-passport/apply-online (online application steps, what you need, identity confirmation, payment)
  • https://www.gov.uk/apply-first-adult-passport/what-documents-you-need-to-apply (birth-in-the-UK and born-outside-the-UK evidence branches, parental nationality/immigration-status evidence, naturalisation and registration evidence)
  • https://www.gov.uk/confirm-identity-online-for-passport-application (who can confirm someone's identity online, eligibility and exclusion rules, UK/Irish passport-holding requirement — this, not the countersigning page below, is the correct source for identityConfirmerFullName, identityConfirmerPassportType, and identityConfirmerPassportNumber)
  • https://www.gov.uk/countersigning-passport-applications (the paper-form countersignatory process; consulted only for comparison against the online identity-confirmation route above, not cited as a field source in this version)
• Official form id: none for the online channel. HMPO's online first-adult service is an authenticated web application with no downloadable, fillable form equivalent to the DS-82/ITR-E precedents; a paper-form channel exists (per the landing page, at a higher fee) but was not reviewed and is out of scope for this document (see below).
• Retrieved / reviewed: 2026-07-01 (all sources confirmed live at authoring time)
• Reviewer: GovSchema Engineering (initial authoring source-review)

Why GOV.UK guidance prose was used as the field-level source

Like gb/dvla/vehicle-tax, the first-adult passport online service has no paper-form equivalent to extract field-by-field. It sits behind an authenticated HMPO portal with no published field-by-field specification of its screens. The GOV.UK guidance pages (the landing page, "Apply online", and "What documents you need to apply") are the most authoritative public description of what the service collects, so this document transcribes those into fields. It is a guidance-derived, not a form-derived, schema, and that distinction is recorded so consumers weigh its confidence accordingly.

What was confirmed against the source

| Source element | Field(s) | |---|---| | Born in the UK before 1 Jan 1983: birth/adoption certificate alone | nationalityEvidenceRoute = uk_born_before_1983, birthOrAdoptionCertificate | | Born in the UK on/after 1 Jan 1983: birth certificate and either a parent's own UK nationality evidence or evidence of a parent's UK immigration status at the time of birth | nationalityEvidenceRoute = uk_born_on_or_after_1983, parentEvidenceType, parentNationalityEvidenceParent, parentNationalityEvidenceType, parentImmigrationStatusEvidence | | "If you send documents relating to your father, you must also send your parents' marriage certificate" | parentsMarriageCertificate | | Born outside the UK, hold a naturalisation/registration certificate: certificate plus the passport used to enter the UK (or foreign passport applicant is included on); no birth certificate required | nationalityEvidenceRoute = outside_uk_naturalised_or_registered, naturalisationOrRegistrationCertificate, passportUsedToEnterUK | | Born outside the UK, British overseas territories citizen, before 1 Jan 1983: birth certificate, current passport, and passport used to enter the UK | nationalityEvidenceRoute = outside_uk_bot_citizen_born_before_1983, currentPassport | | Born outside the UK before 1 Jan 1983 with father born in the UK: full birth certificate showing parents' details, father's birth certificate, parents' marriage certificate, passport used to enter the UK | nationalityEvidenceRoute = outside_uk_father_born_uk_before_1983, fathersBirthCertificate | | Born outside the UK on/after 1 Jan 1983: full birth certificate showing parents' details, passport used to enter the UK, evidence of one parent's British nationality | nationalityEvidenceRoute = outside_uk_born_on_or_after_1983 (reuses parentNationalityEvidenceType) | | Applicant name, date of birth, contact/address details collected on the online form | lastName, firstNames, dateOfBirth, email, addressLine1, addressTown, postcode | | Digital photo uploaded as part of the online application | photoFile | | Online identity confirmer must be 18+, live in the UK, have known the applicant 2+ years as a friend/neighbour/colleague, and work in (or be retired from) a recognised profession; must hold a current UK or Irish passport; cannot be a relative/partner/cohabitant, cannot work for HMPO or for UKVI on British citizenship/right-of-abode applications, and cannot be a doctor unless a personal friend; enters their own passport number during their own online confirmation step | identityConfirmerFullName, identityConfirmerPassportType, identityConfirmerPassportNumber | | Standard 34-page vs 50-page "frequent traveller" passport option; card payment only | productRequested, paymentMethod |

Scope and jurisdiction notes

• Online channel only. GOV.UK's landing page names a paper-form channel (at a higher fee) alongside the online service; this document models only the online application, which is the primary path the guidance itself steers applicants toward. A future minor version could add a applicationChannel axis if the paper channel's fields are independently reviewed.
• Identity confirmer scoped to UK residents. identityConfirmerPassportType's enum covers only british/irish. Per confirm-identity-online-for-passport-application, the online identity-confirmation step requires the confirmer to live in the UK and hold a current UK or Irish passport unconditionally. The online flow has no overseas-confirmer branch at all. A broader British/Irish/EU/US/Commonwealth passport list exists only for the separate paper-form countersignatory route (countersigning-passport-applications), which is out of scope for this document.
• Fees are intentionally not encoded, consistent with other reference schemas (e.g. gb/dvla/vehicle-tax, us/ca/dmv/drivers-license-renewal). HMPO fees change periodically (most recently under the Passport (Fees) Regulations 2022) and are out of scope for a field-collection schema.
• Not time-versioned. Applying GSP-0005 §2's coexistence test: the process does not encode a year-varying value and its "editions" would not meaningfully coexist (there is no annual re-filing cycle), so this is a plain v1.0.0 document, not an edition-axis schema.
• Conditional requiredness that v0.2's flat/linear model cannot express (the six-way nationality-evidence branch and the father/marriage-certificate condition within it) is documented in field descriptions, per the limitation tracked in GSP-0004.
• Identity-confirmer fields are sourced from the online confirmation flow, not the paper countersigning page. An earlier draft cited countersigning-passport-applications for identityConfirmerFullName and identityConfirmerPassportType, but that page describes the paper-form countersignatory process ("get your paper form and one of your 2 print photos signed"). The actual online flow this document models is a separate page, confirm-identity-online-for-passport-application, linked from "Apply online". It was not cited in the original draft. Re-deriving the fields from that page's raw content directly (rather than assuming the paper page's rules carry over) found real differences: the online flow adds an 18+ age gate and an additional exclusion (cannot work for UK Visas and Immigration on British citizenship or right-of-abode applications) that the paper page does not state; it requires the confirmer to work in, or be retired from, a recognised profession with no "person of good standing in their community" alternative (the paper page offers that alternative, the online page does not); and it has no overseas-confirmer branch at all: "live in the UK" is unconditional on the online page, unlike the paper page's separate in-UK/outside-UK passport rules. Field descriptions and sourceRefs were corrected to cite the online page instead.
• Grandparent evidence and name-change evidence were removed after re-derivation. An earlier draft of this document included grandparentEvidenceRequired/grandparentNationalityEvidence and nameChangeEvidence, citing sourceRefs on "What documents you need to apply." Re-reading that page's full articleBody directly (not a summary) found no mention of grandparents, name changes, deed polls, or statutory declarations anywhere on it. The page's only escape hatch for circumstances it doesn't cover is a reference to a guidance booklet that is not one of this document's four cited sources. Those fields were removed rather than published with an inaccurate sourceRef; if a future review finds them genuinely required (e.g. from the guidance booklet), they should be re-added citing that source, as a new minor version.

What is NOT yet independently verified

• The exact screen order and wording of the live online application were not captured screen-by-screen; this document is derived from the surrounding GOV.UK guidance pages, which describe what the service needs but not its literal screen text.
• The paper-form channel (£115.50 per the landing page) was not reviewed and is excluded from this version.
• Whether a separate place of birth field is collected on the online form (as opposed to being read from the birth certificate) was not confirmed; it is omitted here on the assumption HMPO resolves it from the submitted certificate.

Path to a verified claim (next step)

To advance to status: verified, a reviewer applies manual-source-review-v1 (Procedure step 2 field-by-field against the live online application specifically, step 3 flow), confirms the source is authoritative, resolves any discrepancy by shipping a new schema version (immutability — VERSIONING §3, practice Procedure step 5), and records the outcome here plus sets status: verified with a current verification.lastVerifiedAt/nextReviewBy.

Re-verification

Per the practice's Cadence, nextReviewBy is set to 2027-01-01 (6 months). Re-check the source on or before that date and on any source.url change.