Passport bashing thread

[Fuckpassportrules]

Hi people at the title says im am having a rant about the passport office.
So this is the 3rd time ive tried to get a first time adult passport ive done everything i have been asked to do.
And yet still not good enough for them.
All this countersign crap not everyone know some one.
Got told to send in statutory declaration did this not good enough.
I dont have proof my of my mother either so got to told to send in a statutory declaration that my solicitor did not fucking good enough.

However my sister got a passport we both sent in the same things have the same issues.

It cant be just me that finds the whole passport process a load of shit and made in a way to push our buttons.

All this countersign crap not everyone know some one.

The whole point is to prove you are present and known within your community. If you don't participate in your community at all, then no, you are not going to find it easy to find someone to countersign - that is the purpose of needing a counter signatory

I mean, I’ve just got DC’s renewals back within two weeks…

Was there a problem with your Stat Dec? Did your solicitor know what it was meant to include and didn’t do it?

It’s a passport, not a Nectar card. It should be difficult to get.

“Not everyone know someone”

what are you, a ghost?

you need to follow all the rules very clearly
they are absolutely correct to be very strict on this for obvious reasons
I would hazard a guess that your application doesn’t meet the very clear standards

I miss the laugh emoji

Did you use the same solicitor as your sister did, OP? And you both used the same countersignatory route via this solicitor?

It seems odd that she was granted a passport and you weren’t.

Is this a UK passport and is the issue definitely about the countersignatory?

But why is it relevant that you are known in your community? If you are a British citizen, having a passport is a right, not a privilege. What about lonely people who do not have friends? Aren’t they entitled to a passport? Or people who do not know anybody in the “right category”?
When my son’s passport was stolen, we really struggled to find a suitable person. He is a student, with student friends, I work in the right field but my colleagues do not know him. So my son who was born here (and whose father’s family are British) and had a British passport since babyhood really found it difficult to get a replacement.

I got an old uni friend to countersign mine. She lives hundreds of miles away. It says absolutely nothing about how present or known I am in my community.

I think it's a really unfair system for many people.

community doesn't mean proximity. She knows you, you are known.

I don’t know anyone who’s ever had a problem getting a passport. Do you have a criminal record?

If you are a British citizen

And you often need a passport to prove you are a British citizen 🤦‍♂️. Roll on ID cards.

Passports are assigned to different people and it it what that person deems to be correct in order to certify you are who you are. My DCs PP were a nightmare, one came back within 2 weeks the other almost a month later. Lots of back and fourth. My blessing was I could link the two applications so each person who was assigned my children could see every last detail. And thankfully one woman actually rang me from the passport office to verbally check my details which sped things up. Both people asked for different proof of things, I think one was my mothers birth certificate to prove British origin and the other wanted my marriage certificate and husbands birth certificate… barmy know!

I got my passport through the post 3 weeks ago.
I had no countersigner and no proof of parents birth certificate.
It can be done so hang in there.

My OH had a nightmare with renewing his Passport recently. It had been issued before 1994 so had to apply as a first adult Passport. They dragged it on and on, rejected his birth certificate then counter signer (despite originally accepting it, and counter signer had previously done quite a few)

He offered to do an interview but was told he can't request one then got a phone call out the blue to do a phone interview.

They asked for GP records pre 1990 (he only had one from 1966 when he broke his leg) or education records. He would get texts and emails asking for this info but when he phoned they couldn't give a reason as to the problem