Baby's first passport

[LG123]

Hi! (Sorry for the not aibu, but posting for traffic as in panic mode).

So I've just paid for my baby's first passport fast track 1 week service. This was booked and paid for prior to pregnancy so I've applied as soon as baby was registered.

Our appointment is Friday and we travel on the 20th - I've fallen at the first hurdle. I don't have a copy of my birth certificate, yes I can get one if I pay for the priority service and collect it Wednesday/Thursday rather than rely on the post but my name is totally different as it was changed by deedpoll 14 years ago - I've moved a few time so no idea where my deedpoll is. I've contacted the solicitor's office who did the deed poll and they no longer have a copy of it, file was destroyed after 7 years. Yippee!

What do I do? Go along to the appointment without my certificate, just take my passport, babys birth certificate and hope for the best?

Any reassurance would be greatly appreciated 😅

1984 and I didn’t take my birth certificate for either of my son’s first passports (most recently earlier this year). I wasn’t born in the UK anyway so it wouldn’t prove anything. They were happy with my British passport.

I have my own passport and submitted the details of my passport on his application. These are the documents being asked for in his application when I log in, and on my daughters just asks for her passport.

Yes I am British by birth, both parents are British, grandparents are British, GGP and so forth 😅

So it didn't aks for it? Like my above picture?

Did you do fast track?

I was born after 1983 (in the UK) and I had to send my birth certificate. I have also changed my name by deed poll but a copy of the deed poll wasn’t requested, and my baby’s passport came through absolutely fine:

For those who did fast track, did you need to take the child with you?

Did you have a valid passport at the time or time of the baby's birth?

When I say I changed my name, I changed my first, middle and surname 😅. You'd think I was different person.

The screenshots you are posting appear to be referring no people who are applying for a British child passport but they are not born British.

Can you post a link rather than screenshot?

It's not a link I can post, it's in the track your application log in, it's what it's told me to bring for him. He is noted down as British.

But are you noted as British?

Yes.

Does his father have a birth cert you can use?

His father is absent and not on his birth certificate so he has no legal father. Didn't have this much of a ballache with my daughters passport.

Thought I'd update, appointment was today and they didn't even ask for my birth certificate!

@LG123 I told you it wasn't required.
You would have used it to get your own passport so only your passport details would be needed.

Thank you, heard so many conflicting info I panicked with the travel date but all appears to be okay! Now I'm sat in a rooftop bar having an afternoon drink to top off my afternoon 😁

Enjoy your drink and your holiday when it comes @LG123

Thank you! Definitely enjoyed the drink and the view - passports were approved today!