British Expats - Renewing a UK passport with no qualifying countersignatories.

Page 2 of 2

Show 40 post(s) from this thread on one page

British Expats (https://britishexpats.com/forum/)

- USA (https://britishexpats.com/forum/usa-57/)

- - Renewing a UK passport with no qualifying countersignatories. (https://britishexpats.com/forum/usa-57/renewing-uk-passport-no-qualifying-countersignatories-710989/)

NatashaB

Mar 28th 2011 12:12 pm

Re: Renewing a UK passport with no qualifying countersignatories.

Do you work? My HR manager signed mine as she was a member of some professional body.

pTeronaut

Mar 28th 2011 12:25 pm

Re: Renewing a UK passport with no qualifying countersignatories.

Just one last thing, As I will be sending my current passport with my application, I shouldn't need to send my birth certificate should I?

WhySoHard

Mar 29th 2011 4:32 am

Re: Renewing a UK passport with no qualifying countersignatories.

Quote:

Originally Posted by tonrob (Post 9270693)

No. I'm sure no-one ever checks up on this sort of thing. How would they even go about doing that? I worked in various bank branches for 11 years. As staff/managers between us we'd acted as valid counersignatories for hundreds of bloody passport photos (we discussed this). No-one ever checked up.

What would be the point?

I dont know when you last applied/renewed a UK passport... But now the cosignatory has to give their passport details! So YES... they do check!

Nutmegger

Mar 29th 2011 4:40 am

Re: Renewing a UK passport with no qualifying countersignatories.

Quote:

Originally Posted by WhySoHard (Post 9272127)

I dont know when you last applied/renewed a UK passport... But now the cosignatory has to give their passport details! So YES... they do check!

When I did mine in December, they just wanted the passport info if the co-signatory had a British passport. Otherwise, it was not applicable.

tonrob

Mar 29th 2011 4:44 am

Re: Renewing a UK passport with no qualifying countersignatories.

Quote:

Originally Posted by WhySoHard (Post 9272127)

I dont know when you last applied/renewed a UK passport... But now the cosignatory has to give their passport details! So YES... they do check!

Wow - created an account just to respond to my post? I'm flattered.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nutmegger (Post 9272141)

When I did mine in December, they just wanted the passport info if the co-signatory had a British passport. Otherwise, it was not applicable.

There you go - I shall carry on not being arsed in the slightest.

Bob	Mar 29th 2011 4:46 am

Re: Renewing a UK passport with no qualifying countersignatories.

Quote:

Originally Posted by WhySoHard (Post 9272127)

I dont know when you last applied/renewed a UK passport... But now the cosignatory has to give their passport details! So YES... they do check!

But if they are not UK citizens, they don't have to put anything else down and as we're in the US...

ian-mstm

Mar 29th 2011 5:33 am

Re: Renewing a UK passport with no qualifying countersignatories.

Quote:

Originally Posted by WhySoHard (Post 9272127)

But now the cosignatory has to give their passport details!

Only if the signer has a UK passport, otherwise they don't have access to another country's passport database.

Quote:

So YES... they do check!

I doubt they check even then. If there's a number there that looks valid, that'll suffice. If there's no number there, they'll assume the signer doesn' t have a UK passport.

Ian

All times are GMT -12. The time now is 7:36 pm.

Page 2 of 2

Show 40 post(s) from this thread on one page