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Conveyancer - Identity Check
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Ok thanks.It's someone else's fault.0
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Just to confirm what Londonsu says - I get really Peed off with the insistance for Drivers Licence or Passport eg: for new Bank Accounts when I have neither. Anyway when I instructed a solicitor for conveyancing a couple of years back other checks were made and utility bills etc used.0
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NO NO NO NO they do not
There is NO legal I repeat NO legal requirement in this country for someone to have photo ID.
Therefore where there is no legal requirement to possess photo ID there cannot be any legal requirement to show photo ID
I dont drive I was born in the UK and have never left the same goes for my Husband but we sold our flat, bought a house and retained a solicitor with NO photo ID whatsoever.
Your solicitor will have the ways and means to check out your identity if you produce originals such as Birth certificates and in our case our marriage certificate plus we had our NI numbers on HMRC stationary (P45 will do it or P60) plus proof of our current address on our bank statement, thats all he needed.
Same with our EA we gave the same paper ID that we gave to our solicitor with no problem at all the EA who sold us our house (which we bought for cash from the proceeds of our flat sale) didnt even ask us for any ID (mind you this is on the isle of Wight and we are a bit behind the times here).
People like EAs and Solicitors would PREFER photo ID as your identity has already been checked out by the passport office, so someone else has done all the checking and the work, it makes their life easier granted, but there are ways and means for them to proceed without photo ID.
It is the solicitor who decides what they will accept - as they are taking all the risk - nothing to do with what they have to accept.
The solicitor firm can decide for itself, or you can go elsewhereMy posts are just my opinions and are not offered as legal advice - though I consider them darn fine opinions none the less.:cool2:
My bad spelling...well I rush type these opinions on my own time, so sorry, but they are free.:o0
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