Help asap with baby passport

[drstranger]

Where on the birth certificate is the certificate number? On the passport form it says bottom left and 7 digits, I can't find it ??

I'm only seeing a 6 digit number that says BCQ before it on the top right corner...

And the number is slightly different on both pages of the certificate

Does it really ask for the birth certificate number?

Or put the 6 digit number with a 0 at the start maybe

I just don't want to risk it getting refused !

This is what it's saying

I have nothing anywhere stating a certificate number

Just put the number that's on it.
You'll be sending the certificate to them so it's probably so they can match the certificate to the application.

As in just put the BCQ number if that's the only number that's there

That's true!! Thank you I will it's the only sort of serial number there anyway

That certificate in the image isn't a birth certificate. It's a nationalisation registration certificate.

If you google UK birth certificate, you'll see what they look like. There is a short form and a long form.

You’ve put registration certificate image on, not a birth certificate. It’s top right, ignore the letters

Don’t you need the long form one for passport

That is the example for passport application is giving

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That isn't a birth certificate. It isn't a certificate I am familiar with.

Was your baby born in the UK and registered within the statutory six week window after birth? If so then you should have the birth certificate. You can have a long form and/or a short form.

It will definitely clearly say Birth Certificate on it.

It's got to be the 6 digit number I can see. I've rang the registry office and even they don't know... they said to put the system number which is bottom left but 9 digits long lol

That is not mine it's the example on the passport form. I have my babies birth certificate in front of me it doesn't have anywhere on it that states certificate number all it has is a system number on bottom left, on top right it has BCQ 1**9

Does it have your details on it?

Yeah mine and the fathers. It is the only copy we were given. There was no second page on it. On my sons 8 years ago (same office) we had both sides to the certificate

Found this online with prince Harry's details for some reason 😂 but an example to show you what certificate I have

I'm looking at ours and mine has the number at the top right but is a letter and then 5 numbers.
Dh's has the number at the bottom right and is 2 letters and 6 numbers

Dd and ds's have the letters BF and then 7 numbers then CE at the end. Looks like they can differ a lot so just put whatever number is on there

on the example that you have given with Prince Harry, the number is top right = 6 digits.

Bottom left, it's labelled as "System Number" and is 9 digits long. I specifically asked the registrar where the number was when we registered baby birth, then I did my baby's passport application last week!

It's says to allow 10w turn around once they've received your documents, fyi...

Good luck!