Passport making me example ?

So to sum up, despite you paying taxes in the past & the government paying you our taxes in child benefit and benefits, the passport office refuse to beleive you are a British Citizen. This makes you an illegal immigrant which technically gives you more rights to a British passport than you have now anyway. :rolleyes:
 
Isn't Christopher Hitchen the atheist brother of Peter Hitchen, who is the journalist in the Mail?????

Anyway, they don't ake as much notice of those renewing their passports(well, at present, anyway) they are more interested in those requesting passports for the first time.
 
Good grief Mel. That's a horrendous saga and absolutely ludicrous on the part of the Passport Office.

How on earth can they have happily given your children their passports with you as their mother if they still don't believe you are you? Sheer, total, absolute, utter madness!

I can understand how you feel like you are bashing your head against an unrelenting brick wall.

Busman and I went through a similar ever decreasing circle when we got married. I didn't want to change my name to Mrs. Busman out of deference to my kids and their relationship with their deceased father but equally Busman didn't want to become Mr. Whisp. So we opted for a hyphen. We asked at the register office how we go about officially becoming Mr & Mrs Busman-Whisp (or Whisp-Busman) and were told that once we had signed the cert in our old names that was it - just tell the world that our new name was the double barrelled one and hey presto all would be well. Oh yeah? So we try to get it changed on the electoral roll and they want documentation from the Bank, so we try to get it changed at the Bank and they want documentation from the council! Aaaargh! :bangh8: Eventually I found one obscure storecard of mine which would simply accept my word for it and that started the ball rolling and eventually others followed on from that until eventually I think we got through to everybody but it took months.

Also it never ceases to amaze me how many organisations accept a birth certificate as proof of ID when I, as an amateur genealogist, know that it is no such thing. I have applied for umpty million birth, marriage and death certificates on behalf of people whose family trees I have been tracing and you don't even have to be related to the person never mind BE them!

I do wish you luck Mel and hope that you can get through this stupid mess and get somebody to see sense. Don't give up. When are you planning on going on holiday?

Here are contact details for Greg Pope if that helps.
 
Well in the eyes of this country im just a mother - no person in my own right - gee felt like that at times but never thought that would actually be the truth. Would of gone if all was well in Aug sometime but seems cos of me that might be kyboshed or they may just go without me. No matter which way atm i really depressed about this issue:(

Not even changed names just went back to birth yeh i was told the same thing about it being easy too - absolutely not would of been easier to change name by deed poll in the long run.
 
accymel said:
would of been easier to change name by deed poll in the long run.
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If your going to do that Mel, here are a few names that will get you a passport..........

Mohammed

Patel

Bashir

Aktar

Try any of them and you will be the proud owner of a passport in just 7 days :(
 
I really don't get what their problem is Mel.. What else can you do to prove who you are?? I know you have mentioned benefits, have you thought of Family allowance, as there has been no break in benefit and you have claimed for that since the kids were born so they will have continuous addresses for you??

Just a thought!!! Hope you sort it..

Ps. Why can't you use the tenancy agreement as proof of address??
 
harwood red said:
I really don't get what their problem is Mel.. What else can you do to prove who you are??

Ps. Why can't you use the tenancy agreement as proof of address??
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Havent a clue HR, for the past 8/9 years ive been trying & fighting to be a person in my own right - its a constant battle.

As for tenancy agreement - it wouldnt do altho the passport agency knows previous name used, as i have been in my birth name & im using that they wanted - clarifying which i have but the reason why my tenancy agreement [cos i had to do a new one with HH takeover last yr] they bozed that up too as i posted http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f69/new-takeover-incompetance-22108.html

So that wont do now:( very picky indeed are the passport agency. But they do realise i rent my house & they dont want HH proof they want other proof too.
 
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harwood red said:
but what about the child benefit Mel??
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They havent asked for that thats the thing - they wanted Income support or tax credits but as neither fit into their timescale that was off the list - the only way atm is the docs & that wont be easy in itself he's not that ameniable unless i was as slinky says:(

I got enough hassle today for sending them alternative proof rather than what they wanted!!
 
accymel said:
They havent asked for that thats the thing - they wanted Income support or tax credits but as neither fit into their timescale that was off the list - the only way atm is the docs & that wont be easy in itself he's not that ameniable unless i was as slinky says:(
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Have you clarified that point with them, as they may well accept that as it is a continuous benefit?
 
harwood red said:
Have you clarified that point with them, as they may well accept that as it is a continuous benefit?
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Went thro the list of stuff with them with no satisfactory resolve - they want stuff in relation to me not to the kids - they have perfectly accepted im their mother but not as a person in my own right which is what they want me to prove. Besides their wording is - 'we want a letter not a bundle of letters that cover the period of jan 06 - present day' - thats what the difficulty is.
 
Well all I can say is what a load of jobsworths they are....I think its going to have to be a trip to liverpool for you to at least speak to someone in person!! wish there was something I could do to help!!
 
harwood red said:
Well all I can say is what a load of jobsworths they are....I think its going to have to be a trip to liverpool for you to at least speak to someone in person!! wish there was something I could do to help!!
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Yeh & compensation with or without passport! Unfortunately its my problem [typically] & sods law that life has diictated pondlife is the only place where im staying hehehe they let me in Yorkshire without a hitch there & back or even sheepland but not out of the country.



Might be thinking of ways i can be smugggled out:eek:
 
Why don't you just sneak on the plane with the others, and when you get there claim political asylum!

You might get a house, which would make a lovely holiday home.:D
 
And if you need your old Dad to help out Mel, just give me a call - I'll go with ya to Liverpool or Greg Popes office - after all I should know who you are even better than the doc........lol
 
Mel, what are you waiting for Greg has offered you some help? Grab it girl with both hands....do not give up on your hopes for a holiday.
It ain't over till it's over.
 
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