Amazulu

Just been to the PO to apply for a passport. Had the form filled out correctly, citizenship cert, Drivers licence and photos - everything that is asked for on the form. PO clerk starts checking everything and then informs me that I need my birth certificate or foreign passport to prove where I was born! Hang on a minute, this is not asked for on the form - if it was I would have brought in my birth cert. He would not proceed with the application saying that this always catches loads of people out. No shit Sherlock, it's not asked for on the form. Besides, at PR, citizenship test, citizenship application I've had to prove where I was born. I went across the road to the passport office in the exchange building and they informed me that this needs to proved even though it's not on the form. This is bureaucratic nonsense. I now have to go through all this again on Monday.

Be warned.

Vim Fuego

Had a similar thing getting a temporary medicare card ... they wanted my original EFTPOS receipt from when I got my visa (in Oz) 9 months previous ... nowhere on the form was this mentioned ... mental.

I had it 'cos I'm odd like that.

Pollyana

C'mon, you've lived here long enough to know that govt red tape here is perverse. I'm sure there is a rule that says "If the applicant provides all requested info at once, then think of something else not mentioned anywhere in the guidelines, and ask for that as well."

sme

...........sadly mine is still in my wallet

Centurion

In the small print is also says that "in the event that you have gone to painstaking lengths to find a JP and made 50,000 copies of 29 certified documents as requested we reserve the right to simply not need it, shrug our shoulders and say - yeah well we know the form says that but you we dont need it nowadays".

Timber Floor Au

PMSL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Isnt that the truth !!!!

wardy2

What is an EFTPOS certificate just so I know I have mine when the time comes.

Thanks

Jimclevs

............ and, of course, who taught them bureaucracy in the first place

Timber Floor Au

receipt

yanno the ones you get from ATM etc

wardy2

Right thanks I thought it was something wierd and wonderful.

Sorry to be a bit thick, never heard it called that

Vim Fuego

As TFA said, it's just the receipt thing you get from swiping the card ... just like the thing you get at petrol stations.

I bet most people don't keep theirs ... I mean surely a passport with a visa in it is proof enough that you have a ... visa?

I seem to remember getting into the country on it, if it's good enough for Mr Immigration Man surely it's good enough for Brenda behind counter?

Alternatively they may just like the power that having an ill-fitting 'uniform' brings.