brightside S9 wrote: > > > My original post stated clearly that his passport has the ZZZ-surname. > I thought a birth certificate wasn't proof of identity anyway. What ID did he use to get his passport ? -- Anne Chambers South Australia anne dot chambers at bigpond dot com

On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 19:02:54 +0930, Anne Chambers <anne@privacy.net> wrote: >brightside S9 wrote: > >> >> >> My original post stated clearly that his passport has the ZZZ-surname. >> >I thought a birth certificate wasn't proof of identity anyway. > It is the start of a chain of information which should end at your current address and physical identity. For a living person born in the UK, the birth registration should match to an identity card number (which later became an NHS number) and if a person's medical records are complete from birth to the present day then that (in conjunction with your GP endorsing your photograph) is possibly the least likely chain of information to be defeated by impersonation but not the only one available. Current passport applications only seem to ask for a copy of the birth registration and the photograph but what you don't see at a passport interview is what other information is being accessed on the interviewing officer's computer screen; this can be expected to be rather more databases than the many that we mere mortals have available to find someone. >What ID did he use to get his passport ? > Current evidences usable for changes of name are one or more of :- -Marriage certificate -Civil Partnership certicate -Gender Recognition certificate -Enrolled** deed poll [note "enrolled"] -Change of name deed -Certificate of naturalisation or registration -Statutory declaration or affidavit -Birth certificate (upon re-registration) -Certificate from the Court of the Lord Lyon of Scotland -IPS form PD2 for those about to marry or form a civil partnership (see direct.gov.uk/passports) [from IPS booklet - "Applying for a passport"] ** i.e. a deed poll which has not just been completed but which has additionally been recorded in the courts system.

On 25/08/2013 18:18, Charles Ellson wrote: > On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 19:02:54 +0930, Anne Chambers <anne@privacy.net> > wrote: > >> brightside S9 wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> My original post stated clearly that his passport has the >>> ZZZ-surname. >>> >> I thought a birth certificate wasn't proof of identity anyway. >> > It is the start of a chain of information which should end at your > current address and physical identity. For a living person born in > the UK, the birth registration should match to an identity card > number We don't have identity cards in the UK. > (which later became an NHS number) and if a person's medical records > are complete from birth to the present day then that (in conjunction > with your GP endorsing your photograph) is possibly the least likely > chain of information to be defeated by impersonation but not the > only one available. Current passport applications only seem to ask > for a copy of the birth registration and the photograph but what you > don't Two passport photographs must be signed by a person in authority who has known you for at least two years, such as a doctor or police officer. If it is a second or subsequent passport, it is required that you submit the old one for ID verification, which they return to you. It is more than 40 years since I applied for my first passport, which was by the same process, but, of course, I had no previous passport to send them. I don't know, but my ID may have been self-verified by my parents' application for their first passports at the same time. > see at a passport interview is what other information is being > accessed on the interviewing officer's computer screen; this can be > expected to be rather more databases than the many that we mere > mortals have available to find someone. I have never had a passport interview. Not even when one of my passports was renewed by the British Embassy in Athens. I just go and collect them. When my husband lost his driving licence in Rome a couple years ago through the action of a pick-pocket who acquired his wallet, the new licence was sent without him having to send a new photo. They accessed his passport details and used that photo.