Renewing a UK passport with no qualifying countersignatories.
Mar 29th 2011, 12:12 am
#16
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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.
Mar 29th 2011, 12:25 am
#17
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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?
Last edited by pTeronaut; Mar 29th 2011 at 1:40 am.
Mar 29th 2011, 4:32 pm
#18
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Re: Renewing a UK passport with no qualifying countersignatories.
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?
What would be the point?
Mar 29th 2011, 4:40 pm
#19
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Re: Renewing a UK passport with no qualifying countersignatories.
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.
Mar 29th 2011, 4:44 pm
#20
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Re: Renewing a UK passport with no qualifying countersignatories.
There you go - I shall carry on not being arsed in the slightest.
Mar 29th 2011, 4:46 pm
#21
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Re: Renewing a UK passport with no qualifying countersignatories.
But if they are not UK citizens, they don't have to put anything else down and as we're in the US...
Mar 29th 2011, 5:33 pm
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Re: Renewing a UK passport with no qualifying countersignatories.
Only if the signer has a UK passport, otherwise they don't have access to another country's passport database.
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
So YES... they do check!
Ian
