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Selling a House - No photo ID
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POPPYOSCAR
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We are in the process of selling a property.
The paperwork says we need to supply ID.
One from part A and one from part B
Part A is passport or photo driving licence (paper not acceptable).
The solicitors have said to send in the paper driving licences and see what happens.
Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this and if we might have to get passports just to sell the house?
The paperwork says we need to supply ID.
One from part A and one from part B
Part A is passport or photo driving licence (paper not acceptable).
The solicitors have said to send in the paper driving licences and see what happens.
Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this and if we might have to get passports just to sell the house?
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How about getting a photo driving license? The DVLA are usually pretty quick at getting new licenses out, the last 3 times I've moved it's been back in under a week.0
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How about getting a photo driving license? The DVLA are usually pretty quick at getting new licenses out, the last 3 times I've moved it's been back in under a week.
We would rather keep our paper ones.
If we have to will get passports as we will probably need them next year.
Just wondering if they will accept ID without a photo.
Going to take them into solicitors next week and see what happens.0 -
POPPYOSCAR wrote: »We would rather keep our paper ones.
Seems far easier not to. Rather than potentially delay the process. Once you move the paper ones become redundant anyway. You'll receive photo licences.0 -
Thrugelmir wrote: »Seems far easier not to. Rather than potentially delay the process. Once you move the paper ones become redundant anyway. You'll receive photo licences.
Was just about to say this, your paper one will become invalid anyway. There’s nothing worse about having a photo card anyway, much cheaper and easier than passports.0 -
Thrugelmir wrote: »Seems far easier not to. Rather than potentially delay the process.
Whatever you decide to do, get a shift on and make a decision, and crack on with it, or you risk either losing the sale, or seriously narking off the poor person below you in the chain.
The idiot I'm buying my house from apparently 'lost' her passport for two weeks so couldn't prove ID to the agent.
She the took another 3 weeks to provide a utility bill as second supporting document.
It's lucky for her that none of the other properties I viewed in the interim, while she was fannying around being useless, were as nice as the one I'm buying, as I was prepared to tell her to stuff it and walk away.0 -
If you're moving house you will need to get a new licence.
A new licence will cost you about £15 vs a passport which is over £70. Depending on how long ago your passport expired you may need to go for an interview.
The easiest way seems to be changing your driving licence.0 -
Another vote for "Change your driving licence now" - you'll need to do so after you move anyway, as DVLA haven't issued paper licences for nearly 20 years now. An address change is free, so it's not even as if it'll cost you more.
How people get by these days without photo ID, I have no idea... And why they think it's a good thing is an even odder idea.0 -
If you're moving house you will need to get a new licence.
A new licence will cost you about £15 vs a passport which is over £70. Depending on how long ago your passport expired you may need to go for an interview.
The easiest way seems to be changing your driving licence.
That is true.0 -
How about getting a photo driving license? The DVLA are usually pretty quick at getting new licenses out, the last 3 times I've moved it's been back in under a week.
Amazingly, DVLA are very quick at sending out a new photo license; my husband had to renew his paper one upon reaching 70 and filled the whole thing in online (they were able to link his application to his passport, so that speeded up the process somewhat.) He received a new photo card license within TWO days, even taking into account our dodgy post deliveries, so I was suitably impressed by that.
Of course, you would need a passport to get it back that quickly, otherwise you'd need to send a verified photo.A cunning plan, Baldrick? Whatever it was, it's got to be better than pretending to be mad; after all, who'd notice another mad person around here?.......Edmund Blackadder.0 -
Sorry to hijack the thread but is photo id absolutely necessary to sell a house? We are helping my brother in law to sell his house after his mother passed away (jointly owned with her) but he has no passport and suffers from epilepsy so cannot get a driver's license. Need to know if we have to get him a passport as it's very unlikely he will ever go abroad.0
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