[1][2] The annual Five Nations Passport Conference is a largely informal in-person meeting between officials of the participating agencies, with some additional invited guests such as the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 2011.

[3] The member states' issuing authorities are comparable to each other: their passport issuance systems are mostly centralised and their service channels are similar to each other.

[4] None of the Five Nations countries has a compulsory identity management system, which means that citizens' personal information is not available in a central citizenship database or registry.

[4] The same five nations participate in the Five Eyes intelligence sharing alliance, although there are no connections between the programs beyond the member countries cultural proximity.

Currently, all Five Nations passport holders have access to Australia and New Zealand's SmartGate system[6] and the UK's ePassport gates.