Has anyone else had passport refused for black ink and not biro?

[Lucky13]

As the title says - my form was refused because I had used real ink (not felt tip)! Can anyone please explain why their stupid machines can't read ink? Why does it have to be a biro?

Probably because so few people use it now and because of its propensity to smudge easily.

Biro is thinner so clearer to read if someone has spider handwriting.

Maybe because you can wash ink off but not brio. Seems ridiculous and it wouldn't cross my mind not to use a fountain pen.

It wouldn't cross my mind to use a fountain pen.

I certify documents as part of my job and some companies you can actually feel the indentation of where the handwritten information is. Think that it's to prove that document is not a photocopy.

I don't mean I only use a fountain pen in the style of a Dowager Countess......just that I wouldn't notice it to be breaking the rules on a passport form. I wonder if it's the same with those fibre tim pens.

I had a CRB form returned 5or 6 years ago because of this.

I was told it's because black fountain pen ink dries 'goldish' and couldn't be read properly by machines/copiers.

Goldish not goldfish

Ignore that, it autocorrected and I thought I'd forgotten to change it. Now I just look deranged