To avoid any unnecessary delays in producing your card please ensure you have completed the application form in its entirety, and read and understood each section of the form carefully.

Please enclose:

1. Two colour passport style photos, one of which must be signed by an eligible verifier.

2. If using Route 1, a photocopy of your birth certificate or certified copy of birth certificate, passport, photo-driving licence, NHS medical card, or National Identity Card which must be signed by an eligible verifier. Please check the full list of accepted verifiers: http://www.citizencard.com/ipr/who-can-be-a-verifier.html.

Please also send change of name documents, marriage and/or divorce certificates if required.

Please DO NOT send original documents.

3. Your payment. 

Urgent application - please send card details or a postal order.

Standard application - please send card details, a postal order or a cheque.