will a bank countersign your passport?

piltonvet

just checked for our passports and cant find em anywhere:rolleyes:
so filled appropiate forms etc .last time we got a teacher to countersign ours but the kids have left school and the gp refuses to sign them anymore.

just wondered if a bank would assist? been with em for over 20 years altho never met the manager

were off on hols in 5 weeks ,any advice would be apreciated.

thanx for looking

iwanttosave_2

I am not sure but I think they have to have known you personally for x amount of years.

We are going to have trouble getting our signed as well as our doctor wont do it any more either even though they charged £15 a time

Bossyboots

You do have to have known the applicant personally for at least two years so the bank should not do it unless you do actually now the countersignatory.

What about you dentist?

SKIPPY

What about a neighbour who is a nurse or teacher etc, it can be anyone who has a professional qualification who has know you for at least two years.

wigginsmum

I got my boss (bank manager) to sign mine. Do you know a local priest who knows you well enough to help?

flea72

anyone in a 'senior' position at a company can sign it, so i just took ours into work and got my manager to sign them.

Flea

elfmay

piltonvet wrote:

just checked for our passports and cant find em anywhere:rolleyes:
so filled appropiate forms etc .last time we got a teacher to countersign ours but the kids have left school and the gp refuses to sign them anymore.

just wondered if a bank would assist? been with em for over 20 years altho never met the manager

were off on hols in 5 weeks ,any advice would be apreciated.

thanx for looking

What about your local? Do you know the licensee? I signed a couple when I held my licence and got a pal in the same posistion to sign mine last year.

Also Police officers, prison wardens, nurse etc?

black-saturn

If it's a renewal you dont have to get them countersigned. Thats only for if youve drastically changed your appearance or if it's a first passport.

wigginsmum

Mine was a renewal and I did choose to get it countersigned. I thought it best because my new photo was very different to my old one and I didn't have the time for the possibility that the Passport Office would refuse it.

Smiley_Mum

I had a work colleague sign mine as I used to work for the Inland Revenue and a civil servant can sign your passport photos also.

elfmay

black-saturn wrote:

If it's a renewal you dont have to get them countersigned. Thats only for if youve drastically changed your appearance or if it's a first passport.

Or if you have lost your oringal.