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meeting with solicitors tomorrow...

dizzyblonde85
dizzyblonde85 Posts: 27 Forumite
in House buying, renting & selling
FTB buying a house, meeting with solicitor and have been asked to take passports as ID to prove we're not money laundering or something... Well my passport has decided to go awol, was sure it was in my "safe box." Does anybody know if alternative ID will be adequate, have bank statements, drivers license with counterpart, birth certificate etc....

Answers on a postcard asap please
Thanks

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  • pie81
    pie81 Posts: 530 Forumite
    Drivers licence should be ok. good luck finding the passport!
  • dizzyblonde85
    dizzyblonde85 Posts: 27 Forumite
    Thanks, its just been one of those weeks!
  • keith969
    keith969 Posts: 1,575 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    I did the online ID with my solicitors, and a passport number etc. was definitely required as was NI number.
    For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.
  • dizzyblonde85
    dizzyblonde85 Posts: 27 Forumite
    I have a feeling I sent them photocopies of our passports right back at the beginning of the process... It was probably not putting them back properly that means it is awol... oops!
  • DVardysShadow
    DVardysShadow Posts: 18,949 Forumite
    keith969 wrote: »
    I did the online ID with my solicitors, and a passport number etc. was definitely required as was NI number.
    Not everyone has a passport, so other ID has to be acceptable.
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  • LandyAndy
    LandyAndy Posts: 26,377 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts
    Drivers Licence will be fine. Anything that the government has tested is good.

    Plenty of people don't even have a passport or a driving licence - doesn't stop them buying houses.
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