will a bank countersign your passport?

iwanttosave_2

What is an assurance agent of a recognised company? Just looked on their website and its all a bit vague

black-saturn

elfmay wrote:

Or if you have lost your oringal.

Maybe I'm wrong but I didnt even think you needed to then?

I've just renewed my 2 daughers passports without having them countersigned and they looked nothing like what they did in their original ones.

Bossyboots

black-saturn wrote:

Maybe I'm wrong but I didnt even think you needed to then?

I've just renewed my 2 daughers passports without having them countersigned and they looked nothing like what they did in their original ones.

The instructions do say though that you should provide new countersigned photographs if you look significantly different from your current picture. Do you not think you might run into difficulties if they look different?

elfmay

black-saturn wrote:

Maybe I'm wrong but I didnt even think you needed to then?

I've just renewed my 2 daughers passports without having them countersigned and they looked nothing like what they did in their original ones.

Yes if it is lost or stolen you have to get your replacement form countersigned again. (I lost mine last year and had to get the form countersigned.) I think it also applies to replacements for damaged passports too?

black-saturn

Bossyboots wrote:

The instructions do say though that you should provide new countersigned photographs if you look significantly different from your current picture. Do you not think you might run into difficulties if they look different?

Why would they run into difficulties? I've already got the passports.

black-saturn

elfmay wrote:

Yes if it is lost or stolen you have to get your replacement form countersigned again. (I lost mine last year and had to get the form countersigned.) I think it also applies to replacements for damaged passports too?

OK, maybe I read the form upside down

jonesMUFCforever

A Bank cannot sign anything for anybody BUT an employee of a bank may sign your passport application if he/she has known you personally for at least 2 years, provided that the bank employee has their pasport with them at work as passport applications will require the signatory's passport number.

tigerlily

I've just got a new passport aswell and I looked absolutely nothing like my old pic but didnt know who to ask to countersign so sent it off without and my lovely new passport arrived within two weeks...it was the same for my BF!!
If you do wish to have them countersigned as others have said, your local counceller, a nurse, teacher, college lecturer (my friends mum was a lecturer at thew local college and she did my origional passport 10 years ago), vet, maybe even parish counceller, hope its of some help. Happy holidays.

lady_fuschia

Even if your kids have left school, if the teachers know them/ you, could you leave a message for them at the school office to ask whether they would be happy to sign them? I got an old teacher to sign mine a year after I left.

piltonvet

guess what we`ve found them:j :j :j think we have a poltergeist :cool: .
thanks for all the info at least i got a few ideas for when i need a renewal.

for lost or stolen passports you do need a photo countersigned btw.
just to clear any confusion up.

thanks again