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Help Re Solicitors

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Im trying to get everything sorted out but I am looking at what forms of identification I can use for the solicitors! I don't have a full driving license or provisional with the paper bit. Don't pay utility bills, I have my bank statements but nothing else and it looks like I need two different forms? Help me!!
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This is one solicitors web site explaining what you need
http://www.wilsonbrowne.co.uk/money-laundering.asp
Proof of Identity
So that we can confirm your identity we will need to see one form of ‘evidence of identity’ and one form of ‘proof of address’. The documents you can provide to prove your identity are as follows:-
Evidence of identity:
Current signed passport
Current full UK driving licence (please bring both sections of a photocard licence)
Current UK provisional photocard driving licence (please bring both sections)
Inland Revenue PAYE Coding Notice
Benefits book or Benefits Agency/Department for Work and Pensions Notification letter
Residence permit
Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) Certificate (CIS4(T), CIS4(P) or CIS6
Services Identity Card
Current Firearms Certificate
National ID card
Details of any professional body you may belong to
Proof of address:
Current full UK driving licence (if not already used as evidence of identity)
Current UK provisional photocard driving licence (if not already used as evidence of identity)
Bank, building society or credit union statement or passbook (with printed address)
Recent utility bill, i.e. gas, electric (not a mobile phone bill)
Current local authority tax bill
Most recent original mortgage statement
Benefits book or Benefits Agency/Department for Work and Pensions Notification letter (if not already used as evidence of identity)
Solicitor’s correspondence (relating to a house purchase and less than 2 months old)
Local council rent card or local council tenancy agreement
Letter from care/hostel manager
Some of these items may be subject to certain conditions.
Please do not worry if you do not have any of the items listed above. Although the law does require us to have satisfactory proof of your identity and address, we do have alternative procedures for clients who have reasonable grounds for not being able to produce any of the above.A retired senior partner, in own agency, with 40 years experience in property sales & new build. In latter part of career specialising in commercial - mostly business sales.0
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