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Birth certificates for passports? URGENT
waterfalls · 18/04/2006 00:14
iNEED TO SEND PASSPORTS OF TOMORROW, BUT JUST HAD THE MOST AWFUL THOUGHT (sorry about caps)
DS was born before me and dh were married, does that mean that his birth certificate is not valid and will be rejected by the passport office?
lou33 · 18/04/2006 13:43
i thought there was a law that came into force automatically legitimising children born outside marriage, when their parents wed?
Anyway i'm not that bothered. I didnt do anything officially for dd1 when she changed her name either, all i did was send letters saying she was now known by x name. When i applied for a passport for her, all i had to do was provide a letter from her dad saying she was using his name from now on, and that was that
KristinaM · 18/04/2006 14:17
waterfalls - the full birth certificate is the one with the parents names etc on it. its to establish that the child is a british citizen so is entitiled to a british passport. the short one just has the child's name and DOB on it so its no use for the first passport
lou33 · 18/04/2006 14:17
when one of the other kids was born, and we were actually married, we were talking to the registrar when he had done the certificate, about dd1, and he never said anything about having to re register her since we got married
saggar, i was talking about something more recent than that, i am sure i read something in the last few years
beckybrastraps · 18/04/2006 14:18
HATE the expression "legitmacy". My mum wasn't married when she had me. When she got married and her husband wanted to adopt me, she had to as well, even though she gave birth to me! She was unimpressed. Consequently, I don't have a birth certificate I can use, just a copy of an entry in the register of adopted children.
beckybrastraps · 18/04/2006 14:46
Apparently I can have a short birth certificate in my new (now old!) name, but not a full one. That has to be the adoption thingy. No idea why. Not especially bothered by it. My mum however still fumes whenever she remembers being assessed to see whether she was a fit parent for the child ahe had given birth to and looked after for 4 years!
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