Flying visit today!
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mumsisdaughterWhen Gav and I were in York recently, Jenn was refused a glass of cider in a bar because she had no ID to prove her age (23). Gav was very peeved that they would not take his word for her age.
She used to carry her Birth Certificate in her purse but that was stolen a few years ago. She has a replacement BC but does not carry it around. The usual ID required is a driving licence or passport, neither of which she has. Following the recent incident, she's decided to apply for a passport.
The application for a first passport is now a complex procedure due to fake passport crime. She has a long application form to complete then it has to be countersigned by a referee from one of a list of professions, who must already be a British passport holder. She also needs either my or Gav's BC to prove that she is British-born of a British national. Then after all the paperwork is in place, she will go for an hour-long interview.
The upshot is that Jenn is travelling today, meeting with a good friend of ours who knows her, who is a British passport holder and is willing to act as her referee, collecting our BCs and then going back to York tomorrow. She's had to organise her days off in order to be able to do this.
Goodness knows how her boyfriend would manage if he ever applied: his parents are dead and he does not have their BCs. An online search would be required to find out where they were born!
Anyway, of course, the absolute bonus of this is that we get our girly home for 24 hours. Hurray!!!
For the interested: Jenn's current hair colour is rainbow :D
She used to carry her Birth Certificate in her purse but that was stolen a few years ago. She has a replacement BC but does not carry it around. The usual ID required is a driving licence or passport, neither of which she has. Following the recent incident, she's decided to apply for a passport.
The application for a first passport is now a complex procedure due to fake passport crime. She has a long application form to complete then it has to be countersigned by a referee from one of a list of professions, who must already be a British passport holder. She also needs either my or Gav's BC to prove that she is British-born of a British national. Then after all the paperwork is in place, she will go for an hour-long interview.
The upshot is that Jenn is travelling today, meeting with a good friend of ours who knows her, who is a British passport holder and is willing to act as her referee, collecting our BCs and then going back to York tomorrow. She's had to organise her days off in order to be able to do this.
Goodness knows how her boyfriend would manage if he ever applied: his parents are dead and he does not have their BCs. An online search would be required to find out where they were born!
Anyway, of course, the absolute bonus of this is that we get our girly home for 24 hours. Hurray!!!
For the interested: Jenn's current hair colour is rainbow :D
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Date: 2011-09-15 12:40 pm (UTC)Good luck to her with the passport application. That sounds grueling.
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Date: 2011-09-15 02:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-15 07:18 pm (UTC)And wtf those requirements are fucking -ist! What about people whose parents are dead? What about people who are estranged because, you know, their parents tried to kill them? What about parents who are insane? Or divorced? What if you lost or had your BC withheld by your parents? The hell are you supposed to do, in other words, if contacting your family is out of the question?
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Date: 2011-09-16 12:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-16 01:52 am (UTC)That whole thing with the passport sounds like a pain. In the US we only need our own birth certificate and social security card...nothing from our parents, at least not if you're a natural born citizen. It is pretty pricey though.
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Date: 2011-09-16 05:53 am (UTC)Hey there :)
We already talked about it and your comment about worrying about the control the state or any other institution would perhaps gain over the people when they all got their ID with numbers etc... If I read this now again, I wonder if it's not better to have an ID-card from the beginning instead of going through such a crazy procedure when you actually want/need one.
But luckily you got it all sorted out :)
beautiful pics, btw :)
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Date: 2011-09-16 10:28 am (UTC)Jenn's hair looks amazing! I love the way the different colours combine, and her nail polish sets them off nicely...