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X applied for ds passport

32 replies

Tbird21 · 08/06/2014 17:03

My x asked to take ds on holiday to France this July. I agreed on the condition that he paid for ds passport renewal as I'm not going to be taking him abroad with the pittance he gives me in maintainence! So, I gave him the completed forms and the expired passport. All forms showed my address as this is where ds lives

I now hear from ds that the new passport is at his dad's

Can I do anything? This would mean he completed a new passport renewal and presumably falsified my details on the document? How do I find out?

TIA x

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CarmineRose1978 · 08/06/2014 17:05

Do passports have addresses on now? Mine is six years old, and has no address on... Is it different with children?

Ohwhatfuckeryisthis · 08/06/2014 17:06

Contact passport office and tell them that. As you are (I assume) the parent with custody rights then changing application to his address will be seen as fraud and set off all sorts of alarms.

cantbelievethisishppening · 08/06/2014 17:08

If you are not planning on taking DS abroad why does it matter if he puts his own details on the forms and has the passport. He is your DS's dad after all. Are there other issues you are concerned about?

EdithWeston · 08/06/2014 17:09

It does sound as if he has done a new application.

If he got other photos and a counter signatory, then he's done nothing wrong. The non-applicant parent is not required to sign the form.

PhaedraIsMyName · 08/06/2014 17:11

Adult passports don't have addresses on them. Don't know about children's.

PhaedraIsMyName · 08/06/2014 17:13

The application was made by him so of course the application form will have had his address on it.

cantbelievethisishppening · 08/06/2014 17:13

Do you have joint custody?

Shakirasma · 08/06/2014 17:17

My DSD always went on holiday in the UK with her DM and abroad. With us, so my DH always renewed her passport and kept it here, unless she needed it for anything else.

He had parental responsibility and was perfectly entitled to do so, no falsifying of details at all, not really sure what you mean by that. The resident parent does not have to be the one to apply.

Shakirasma · 08/06/2014 17:18

Sorry, DSD went abroad with us.

BobTheFly · 08/06/2014 17:19

How has he falsified your details? Did you falsify his when you completed the form? No? Then what makes you think he must have?

Picturesinthefirelight · 08/06/2014 17:22

He won't have falsified anything. He'll just have filled out a form with his details on. I presume he sorted countersignatures for the photo.

OwlCapone · 08/06/2014 17:23

There are no details of yours to be falsified.

Picturesinthefirelight · 08/06/2014 17:24

It could even be that he had to fill out a new form because of an error - wrong colour ink, signature outside the box. I had to fill out a completely new firm when ds's photos were rejected. I couldn't get hold of my countersignatury in time to verify the new photo so had to ask someone else.

MrsGoslingWannabe · 08/06/2014 17:26

What is your problem? At least he's taken the initiative and paid for it which is more than lazy scumbag dads bother doing (resident & non-resident).

Billygoats · 08/06/2014 17:30

Children's passports don't have addresses on the same as adults do not. He has simply had it posted to himself as he is the one who applied for it.

Andrewofgg · 08/06/2014 17:36

Strictly speaking he should have asked for the passport to be sent to you using your forms but if he went to the Post Office and did their checking scheme they probably told him he had to do a form in his name with his address - because that is what they are used to - or of course what Picturesinthe firelight said. I can't see that he has done anything wrong.

PhaedraIsMyName · 08/06/2014 17:36

Did you supply counter-signed photos?

Also I know from experience it's quite easy for the bit on the form which the counter-signatory fills in and signs to be incorrectly completed ob a child's application. He might have had to re-do the form.

cantbelievethisishppening · 08/06/2014 17:44

...... then changing application to his address will be seen as fraud and set off all sorts of alarms

Er....what fraud has been committed? And what are all these alarm bells that will be pealing away because dad had applied for a passport for his son?

brokenhearted55a · 08/06/2014 18:12

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Tinkerball · 08/06/2014 18:18

I think OP means as her DS resides with her then that's the address she put on the form - so why would passport be sent to exes address? As this is not where her DS lives.

BarbarianMum · 08/06/2014 18:22

They send the passport to the address of the parent applying for it. The form has spaces for the addresses of both parents and (i think) the child also.

Not sure why you think fraud is involved. He can apply for a passport without lying if he has parental responsibility.

jacks365 · 08/06/2014 18:25

Any person with parental responsibility can apply and have the passport sent to their own address. No fraud involved.

JanuaryKat · 08/06/2014 18:29

Wouldn't it be sent to the childs address??

jacks365 · 08/06/2014 18:33

Wouldn't it be sent to the childs address??

No because a child can't apply in their own right so it will be sent to whoever applied on their behalf.

DinoSnores · 08/06/2014 18:49

I can't see that he has done anything wrong here either assuming he has parental responsibility.