Place of Birth on a Passport if you were born in London!?

[kingseven]

Applying for passports for two DDs. Do I list their place of birth as London or the district/borough they were born!? Can't find any help online. TIA.

From
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/118580/date-and-place-of-birth.pdf

"It has been long established practice for passports and travel documents to record the holder’s place of birth by showing the town of birth only.

The place of birth shown on the passport should be the same as the place of birth shown on the birth certificate (that is the town, city, village, hamlet, etc where the individual was born).

The majority of applicants are born in the UK and it should be clear from the birth certificate submitted where the person was born. In those cases where the name of the town is unclear, the examiner can use some discretion to accept the place of birth listed on the application form, provided the details appear on the birth certificate. Where an applicant has put a town/city (e.g. LONDON) on the application form but the birth certificate shows a borough, then the town/city can be accepted. Under no circumstances should a place of birth be entered that does not appear on the birth certificate. You may however consider obtaining evidence by way of a customer's full birth certificate (FBC) when the customer is disputing a place of birth that is not shown on the short birth certificate (SBC) but they claim to have been born there."

Both BC and passport say Westminster, I had no idea you could choose between that or London! The things you learn on MN eh

Mine and all children say Barnet

Mine says Bromley!
DD1 says the (foreign) city she was born in.
DD2 was born in the middle of the countryside (home birth). Passport says nearest town, not the estate she was born on of the village 3 miles away (town about 7miles away).

I was born overseas, my British passport just has the city shown on my birth certificate, no mention of the country.

@TheSmallAssassin Bromley is in Greater London so the passport office is allowed to put "London".

It's time people in Bromley recognise it is no longer the 1950s.

My partner and I are born same year in same borough but different hospitals.

My BC says borough and London while passport says just "London". Both his BC and passport say borough and London.

I put just London born times. On first DC passport they put London in the passport and on second DC passport despite me writing London in the application they put the borough on the passport.

Which is annoying because I specifically just wanted it to say London hence writing that in my application!

@ColaFreezePopp talk to some people in West Wickham, on their eyes Bromley is just evil and London a foreign city.

Usually it's just London. Might be if the district is in a London post code (SE, E, N etc) then London will suffice. Bromley is technically in Kent & so a passport will show that town.

I know, @ColaFreezePop, I was born there (in Widmore Road, not even in Farnborough). Yes, officially you could put London, but I think you'd just be in denial.

@reluctantbrit, there are plenty of people in Bromley itself who barely set foot outside the borough either.

My kids' ones say Tooting, because that's the default for St George's. Apparently home births in Tooting usually choose to put Wandsworth instead.

@hadthesnip2 Officially (see the advice I pasted in earlier) if you're born in a London borough (like the London Borough of Bromley), you can put London. It sounds like it depends on who you get checking your application as to what actually goes on your passport. I guess this will become more consistent as the process is automated.

I was wondering if it is to do with rules in force at time of first application.

Because my elder DCs' just say London; youngest gives the borough.

Though of course I might have filled the forms in differently - too long ago to remember!

I put london on the passport even though the borough is on the birth certificate.

Holborn on birth certificate and London on passport

I’ve asked my NCT group what all their DC’s passports say
Group of 9, births in Chelsea and Westminster, St thomas’s, and St George’s

7 have replied, all say ‘London’

Followed whatever my mum put on the passport for us: the exact location where hospital of birth was. I did the same for dc - Chelsea.

My daughter was born at St Thomas's. I've always just gone with London as a place of birth.