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Original poster

Can my boss sign my dds passport forms if he hasn't met them but knows me???

29 replies

oliveoil · 24/04/2007 11:45

The form says you are signing to say you know the adult and can IDENTITY the child in the photo

now he knows they are my children

so, is it rule bending?

I think so and he is hesitant as it is an Important Form

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harpsichordcarrier · 24/04/2007 11:46

no, it's fine. how old is your dd?

nickytwotimes · 24/04/2007 11:47

pedantic, but probably understandable in this day and age?

LIZS · 24/04/2007 11:47

I thought the signatory only had to know the parent. Certainly our kids' forms were signed by people who had never actaully met them ! Has he seen photos of them in the past ?

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oliveoil · 24/04/2007 11:48

dd1 is 4
dd2 is 2

I have a photo on my desk so he knows they are mine (lol)

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SoupDragon · 24/04/2007 11:49

They sign to say they know you and that the photo is a true likeness of the child.

harpsichordcarrier · 24/04/2007 11:49

in the past, I have asked to see the children if it isn't too much trouble, but I think I was always picky.
I have signed a lot of flipping passport forms in my time

Dinosaur · 24/04/2007 11:51

My boss wouldn't do it (she's a solicitor).

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oliveoil · 24/04/2007 11:51

oh helooooooooooooooooooooo harpsi

dh's friend is a solicitor and he is signing all our australia stuff but I need to go to the PO at lunch and get it sorted

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Lolly68 · 24/04/2007 13:49

As long as he has known you 2 years he can sign it.

PrincessPeaHead · 24/04/2007 13:51

I would do it if I had met the children before (even several years before) and so I could say that the photos were them

If I'd never ever seen the children I probably wouldn't. but then I don't think I've been asked by anyone I've known for more than 2 years but never met the children....

Fimbo · 24/04/2007 13:54

My old boss (solicitor) signed my dd's passport without seeing her.

My dh (also a solicitor) would sign for any of his employees children.

PrincessPeaHead · 24/04/2007 14:10

yes maybe if my sec of 6 years had asked me to sign the form for her daughter (aged 3) who I'd never met but seen 10,000 photos of since birth, I might have done

it never really arose as I say, so I don't know

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oliveoil · 24/04/2007 14:19

I think he is worried in that if they phone him (which they can) and they say have you met x and y

then he hasn't has he?

dh is going to get his friend to do it on Friday instead just to be on the safe side

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PrincessPeaHead · 24/04/2007 14:20

yes they phone more often than not in my experience

well maybe 50% of the time I'd get a phone call

PrincessPeaHead · 24/04/2007 14:21

50% of the time for new passport applications

less than that for renewals but still get the odd call on those as well

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oliveoil · 24/04/2007 14:32

it is their first passports (awwwww) so prob will call

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bundle · 24/04/2007 14:32

GP friend of mine did dd1's but he had met her. they wrote to him to confirm she was the said bald baby...

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oliveoil · 24/04/2007 14:33

mine look very sullen in their pics

dd2 had just had a strop as I told her off for picking stones out of the mud outside the photographers so it was lucky she got on the chair tbh

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ChasingSquirrels · 24/04/2007 14:45

my boss did, ds1 was 8/9mo at the time.

MissGolightly · 24/04/2007 14:49

I think he's being a bit picky but I can see his point. If he's feeling funny about it why don't you just take your kids into work one afternoon so he can say hand on heart that he's met them and knows them to be the children in the photos?

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oliveoil · 24/04/2007 14:51

he did suggest that but there is no way I am comeing in here on my day off

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portonovo · 24/04/2007 16:27

I personally wouldn't sign if I'd never met the children.

To be honest, I think you're being a bit funny if you won't take them into work on your day off if he's offered that to you as a solution.

Although even then, I still wouldn't sign - I would have to know the children well enough to know they are your children.
Perhaps that's just me...

Someone once told me the person signing has to know the child too, the knowing the adult bit is to say you've known them for the required time. Obviously, with a 1-year-old for example you can't have known them enough time, but you can know the parent for several years. But you still need to 'know' the child.

MuffinMclay · 24/04/2007 16:36

DH's boss (lawyer) signed for DS without having met him. DH (lawyer) signs for children of colleagues all the time. He has never been phoned.

jura · 24/04/2007 19:30

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Budababe · 24/04/2007 19:37

DH has done it for a friend of mine - knew the friend but hadn't met the child (didn't want to come to baby group for some reason!).

He has also done it for friends whose children he has met and was phoned to check.

His boss signed mine and DS's recently and had the cheek to say he'd better come over for a beer to check we were still the same people!