JANEY MAC and also WELL HOLY GOD

[ailbhe]

I took out the passport application forms and the old passports and the long form birth certificates and had a quick shufti at the passport website and then sat down to read the forms.

They've changed the bloody blasted damn walloping regulations again.

Cue me phoning around everyone from a qualified profession in Reading. The bank manager refused to do it because of the regulations for a British passport application, which ARE NOT RELEVANT. The doctors refused to do it because they don't witness signatures, they just sign forms. The dentist wasn't answering the phone. Then I turned to people we know socially and realised that one of our closest neighbour-friends qualifies and called him and asked him and YES YES YES HE CAN DO IT.

That's a currently employed practising accountant who can be phoned at his place of work on a landline number almost any time during office hours. We already know that if you happen not to answer the phone they send the damn forms back.

So now I just need to get the photos taken. The passport office helpfully sent us a little plastic pouch into which to place the photos to check they qualify, and a sheet of instructions with sixteen sample photos showing the most common errors.

Luckily there's a Snappy Snaps handy where I can get photos taken and reject the ones which don't qualify without having paid for them. So that's a nice project for the near future.

Anyone who knows how to get Emer photographed with her knowledge and without having her smile, please let me know.

Comments

[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

That's going to be interesting for me in a few years' time - last time I walked into the local copshop and asked the desk sergeant if he wouldn't mind signing, after explaining that all he had to do was attest that the photos were of me. He was rather gobsmacked but very co-operative.

[ailbhe]

I think it's very different for one's own passport. Bringing minors into it complicates things; Rob and I need the witness to attest that we are who we say we are and so are the children and then we must sign the forms in the witness's presence and they have to do the photo-signing thing and the form-signing thing.