mindblower

Hi guys n gals

Preparing for main visa application now.

Had a request for passport pages to be certified, how would a solicitor actually do this ? hmmmmmmm

Ta

Dave

phoenixinoz

When we got ours certified we were told not any old solicitor would do.

It had to be one that could sign off Australian documents. There is a special name for them that escapes me but I'm sure someone on here will know the term used.

Anyways, if you ring around your solicitors, and tell them you need a solicitor who specialises in signing off passports for Australia, they will know what you mean [from memory I think it costs about £30 per document - that was nearly 2 years ago]

Good luck with the visa

EDIT: The above was what we were told by our agent, however if you read this, it seems any solicitor may do http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...uments+signing

davykaz

when we did ours it was just the bio data page that we had to get certified and the rest we just put in we used the justice of the peace and it didnt cost a penny

moneypenny20

You take photocopies of all stamped pages, take that and the passport and the solicitor or magistrate or JP will certify the copies and confirm that there are no other stamped pages in your passport.

stevenpoole9

Any solicitor can certify a legal document. Luckily for us, my Mother-in-law was working as a clerk in the local courts. She'd made friends with a couple of the solicitors and when she mentioned it to them ,they told her to just bring the documents in and someone will sign them.
We've had our visas issued & validated now, so there was no problem at all.

aarancam

I got mine signed by a local solicitor - only £2 per copy so it's worth ringing a couple out of yellow pages. You shouldn't have to pay more than this.

Jif

i think notary is the solicitor who can make internationally certified copies, but we certainly only had normal solicitors certify our copies, and we got our visa yesterday!! Did i mention that already?!

SunshineGirl

Do you mean a Notary Public? I used one for ours but I'm told any solicitor would do.

fajita

Can't find any reference to stamped passport pages in the checklist (only the biodata page). Is this something your agent has requested? Which visa are you applying for? Hope I haven't missed something :scared:

SunshineGirl

We only certified the biodata page. They're not interested in the other pages.

TIFFIN SCOTT

Hi we had all of our signed and dated by a teacher (friend) and had no problems there. We got our visa last wednesday .. does it have to be done by a solicitor?

JAJ

Any practising UK solicitor will do.

C&R

This is like the 4th post I have read about this subject - There seems to be a descrepancy over the certified stamped passport pages subject.

I believe there is a new booklet 6? - in the old version, there was a checklist you had to include with your visa application. This clearly stated you had to send certified copies of stamped passport pages, under a section called 'other documents'. Maybe this where all the confusion is - the new version of booklet 6 may not state this requirement now?

The certifying part - we used an Ozzie guy who is a qualified accountant, he told us he was a notary thingio and could certify the pages - fingers crossed its ok.