Guest registration

The day-to-day part: who needs registering, what you have to ask them for, and how it gets sent.

• Which guests must be registeredEvery guest, at every age — and what the rules really say about friends and family staying without you.
• Children, babies and teenagersEvery age must be registered. What to do about a child with no passport, and why the form sometimes rejects a teenager.
• What you must ask guests for — and what you needn'tThe full list of what the law requires — and the things you are commonly asked for that it does not.
• When a guest refuses to registerWhy guests refuse, what to say to them, and what you can do if they still will not comply.
• The three ways to register your guestsDoing it yourself, using software, or handing it over — what each actually involves, and who each one suits.
• What a process that actually works looks likeAutomation is possible and worth having. Here is the process around it, and the four places it still goes wrong.

Being written next: wording you can send guests, and record keeping.