Interview dilemma

powerful_Rogue

Stylehutz wrote: »

This just contradicts the replies of the recruiters who say they are not customs officers. Its already been established that most of them would not even know the simple thing of where to look for where the microchip is placed in a new style passport.

I undergo 10 hours of forgery refresh every year and checking the location of the microchip is not something to look out for. The microchip is only visible in the 2006 GBR passport, in others following its actually built into the passport so not visible.

There are much easier and simpler ways of checking for a forged/counterfeit document.

powerful_Rogue

Stylehutz wrote: »

:cool:

So if I knock up a small Maroon 32 page booklet with my photo and a made up passport number, there will be no questions asked?

For the record a lot of passports nearing the 10 year expiry dates are in a very poor way Quality wise with photo maybe starting to come unattached. How would you know if it hadn't been tampered with?

Only the Italian ID card has the photo physically attached to the paper. All other documents have the picture printed either into the polycarbonate or onto the passport paper. As such it's impossible for the picture to "start to come unattached".

Passports have many many safeguards built into them. Any attempt at tampering will be easily spotted, even to the untrained eye. That's why people tend to counterfeit rather then forge - and the quality of counterfeit documents is truly shocking, so again pretty easy for the untrained eye to detect using the basic checks put out by the government.

theoretica

When you come for interview the company knows you can bring the passport with you. If they asked for it after you have been offered the job then you would need to come back with it which might be really inconvenient, especially if you don't live locally or would need more time off work. Or you would need to send your passport in, which has more capacity to go wrong.

The employer could ask for it on the first day, but may not want to delay the contract until then, or send someone home if they forget it.

robatwork

Well I disagree with everyone else. I think they are hell bent on stealing your identity.

Don't tell them who you are, Pike.