Passport Office

[gary r]

just been sent a letter about my daughters passport renewal.

"please send a letter from the mother of the child confirming she agrees to a passport being issued"

This is her second passport,plus it doesnt say anything about a letter being needed on the application from.We are not married but the form was filled in correctly..............i could write my own letter pretending to be the mother as it was addressed to me!what a pile of poo
We were never asked for this with our son's passports!!!

 

[andyfromotley]

Whilst i agree thats its a pile of poo, do not impersonate the mother to write a letter. You will be commiting an offence and i dont think they have too much of a sense of humour about these matters at the passport office.

 

[Wigsie]

I dont want to pry but is it not possible to get hold of the mother? You could type the letter out and just get her to sign the bottom?

 

[Bigtwin]

Don't get me started.

If you want an emblematic organisation representing exactly how far up shoot creek in a lace canoe this nation has travelled, look no further than the pisspoor t office.

Incredible shower of utterly incompetent tw@ts.

 

[gavintc]

Is there more to this than meets the eye or you are telling us? For example, the legal custody of a child is often presumed to be the mother following divorce. Do you have the legal authority to apply for a passport? It is not unknown for fathers to try to remove a child from UK and their mother's custody. Have a look at this from the other side of the coin, the passport office is putting up a small barrier to ensure that the legal procedures and child protection are in place. Why are you so angry about this?

 

[4F]

Having just completed passport applications for my 3 kids it does say on there that if you are the father applying and not living with the childrens mother then the mother has to give her permission or sign the application. It is probably for the reasons stated by gavintc and recent cases of fathers snatching kids and taking them abroad.

 

[gary r]

I dont want to pry but is it not possible to get hold of the mother? You could type the letter out and just get her to sign the bottom?

we are still together!!we live at the same address

 

[Wigsie]

Shouldn't be a problem should it? I filled out passport applications fr my boys and went to London office to do interview on their behalf, didn't need to. I was presuming the mother was at different address or something so they were double checking for her permission.

My wife is South African and trying to get her indefinate leave to remain and British citizenship has taken the best part of 6 years! The Passport Office have all these new rules and regulations and have turned into a new breed of controlling wannabe Nazi's!

 

[Fnaar]

Did one a while ago for my 16yr old daughter. Like yourselves, we're not married. I thought applic was only signable by mother, not by dad (if not married, that is)???

 

[gary r]

Did one a while ago for my 16yr old daughter. Like yourselves, we're not married. I thought applic was only signable by mother, not by dad (if not married, that is)???

well i paid the post office to check the application form & explained we were not married ,the mothers surname being different etc.& we have had 2 passports for our son with no issues.it should all be ok but its just so frustrating.the letter they sent me was dated 9 July,i only ercieved it today!!They could have called me to ask for the letter,their answer to that was "we prefer to write"

 

[Fnaar]

Yes, the POst Office check should find any likely probs... not entirely sure of my facts, but I seem to remember had to get mum to sign it...

 

[Bigtwin]

Yes, the POst Office check should find any likely probs... not entirely sure of my facts, but I seem to remember had to get mum to sign it...

Hahahahahahahahhehehehehehehhohohohohohohostoppityou'rekillingme.

5 (five) (that's Five (as in, FIVE))) times the PO approved my photo taken in their own Passport Photo booth. Which is exactly the same number of times the Pissport Office rejected it (forth renewal) because the "background wasn't white enough". Being plain white and all as it was.

After a LOT of complaining to the equally pisspoor civvy companies to which they outsource this crap, I threatened to judicially review them.

Next day without another word, a courier van arrived at my house. With my new passport in. Just my passport. Which was all it had in it (the driver explained over a mug of tea on my drive), as it had been driven by him from Glasgow to Surrey that morning, and was going straight back empty, as soon as he saw the bottom of the china.

That's where your tax money is going ladies and gentlemen.

And that was after they rejected my son's baby photo because he was "smiling". He was about 14 months old...

Squandering idiot oxygen and cash thieving kuntz.

Oh, and don't bother complaining, as you can only do it on the form they send you. Which they never did despite 3 times of asking, two of which were writing. And the Home Office never answered my subsequent letter.

"Unfit for purpose" doesn't even begin to describe it.

 

[Fnaar]

Blimey... what a waste of resources...
Must've been lucky with my daughter's app... PO found one tiny thing, put it right, and all went smoothly...

 

[summerdays]

Hmm I did that PO checking thing too... the woman on the counter refused one of the forms as we hadn't had it countersigned by someone else for my eldest daughter. Phoned Mr Summerdays outside said PO, and he told me to get back in there and tell them how to check the form properly since as she was now a teenager she didn't require the extra signiture. At that point you do think why did I pay for them to check it.

 

[Renard]

Today's top tip is try marrying the woman. Hey presto, no more ackward letters from the passport office