Notarized copy of my UK Passport????

[New Shoes]

Hi Guys,

Regarding Fiancé Visa Application :-

I need to send a photocopy of my UK passport. Does the portrait page of this photocopy have to be notarized by a solicitor?

I've read on the Transpondia Immigration FAQs that this is required, but I've not really heard anyone on this site mention photocopies being notarized....

Many thanks
NS

[stevewool]

i did not do that i just sent copies of the pages they requied and if you have been there on a holiday to the phils copy that page too with your visa on it

[joebloggs]

you can do, it shouldn't cost much around £10 for a couple of pages, some people dont, but you are asked to, but the embassy can probably confirm the information from the photocopy is genunie anyway.

[Terpe]

Like others, I don't recall being requested to send notarized passport pages.
If it states that as a requirement then no choice.

[johncar54]

In Spain, the ONLY authorised copy of any document which is legal is one which is authorised by the authority which issued the document. That is a passport, the British embassy, a D/L DVLC etc.

Why? It is only the issuing authority which can say the original, from which the copy was made, was a genuine document and not a fake. Makes sense if you think about it.

PS I had a copy of our NSO marriage cert, copied as authorised as a 'Genuine copy of the original' by the town hall here, which was accepted in UK by DWP. It was because of things like that, that town halls were stopped from making authorised copies.

[joebloggs]

Why? It is only the issuing authority which can say the original, from which the copy was made, was a genuine document and not a fake. Makes sense if you think about it.

i think with a british passport the embassy can check electronically if the passport is fake or not, but make their job easier and supply what your suppose to

[New Shoes]

Thanks for the replies. I think for the sake of a tenner or so, I'll get the photo copies notarized. Betterr to safe than sorry!!

Thanks again!

[sars_notd_virus]

clear scanned copy for me and not notarized
and they granted my visa

[johncar54]

i think with a british passport the embassy can check electronically if the passport is fake or not, but make their job easier and supply what your suppose to

Just in passing.

Some years ago I was involved in a case where police discovered 300+ cases where genuine British Passports had been issued as a result of false information supplied. The Passport office had not detected the false info and had thus issued genuine British passports. From our estimation at the time there were probably thousands of such passports, all of which could be renewed 'legally' and which no doubt are still being used. once issued they were practically undetectable. The system for obtaining them was wide open. It still maybe as nothing at that time was put in place to prevent it.