On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 22:10:39 +0100, Renia <renia@otenet.gr> wrote: > > >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. > We had them until 1952 and again from 2006 to 2011 but the latter version was abolished before it became compulsory for all. > >> (which later became an NHS number) > from 1948 using the identity card numbering system until a replacement numbering system was introduced a few years ago. If you were born in England and Wales in the 1940/1950s you should find that your birth registration entry number matches the terminating digits of your 1940s/50s ID card and old style 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.