General Chat

Kemp,

That is so out of order,,,,how dare they insist this , of your son is a person in his own right, ,,,,,,,,,,,,! is nothing sacred...........?

But we have only the fraudesters to blame for all this red tape......

I am surprise they can do this it is very PC is it ?

They wouldn't do it to me.

I do hope someone does stand up. The other entire silly do’s and don’t civil servants have to abide with, as not to offend or cause distress this should be one of them. I can only imagine how sensitive this must be to those concerned.

I don't know the full ins and outs of this, and seems no one else does either.
One thing I will say is ALL certificates are copies, the originals are in the books held by the registrars.

Rosalind

my daughter was adopted my my husband
when she was 2
aplying for her passport she had to send her birth and adoption certs in.

my daughter in law has applied for her first passport
and has to go for an interview tomorrow
she is nervous . told her not to be she has lived in sunderland all her life her mom and dad and her grandparents , ....they must be getting tougher.
.................rose................x

Slight deviation from the passport thing, but when I joined the Civil Service in 1982 I had to buy a long birth certificate for them before they would give me the job. They had to investigate my parentage ????? was the reason given.

I might have been adopted and would have found out at that point. As it is I wasn't, but it is very unfair on the adoptees and their family for government departments to force the issue like this.

Dianne xx

Two of mine are adopted and when we had them put on our passports there was nothing on the forms to ask if they were or were not adopted......so how can they tell.....

Also when they applied for their own passports they had to supply their birth certificates, which are in their adoptive names........no problems whatsoever.......so I am a bit confused here.....

ps......we also got visas for America and no problem there either.....

This may be a daft suggestion but hey!

Is it feasible that if an applicant applies for their first passport when they are under the age of 18 the adoption cert will suffice.

Once the applicant turns 18 the powers that be assume that the information re adoption could be released to the adoptee so they don't care and they have their extra security data.

Sue

Maybe security is just getting tighter......, my short version only says details taken from a extraction of an entry in the GRO's book ( with hindsight if I know what I know now the fact it was the book in London and not locally would have given the fact away I was adopted ).

But a full version states parents name etc.........

Thanks to everyone for adding.

My point is really that they have no right to ask. Once you're adopted you are no longer legally the name and identity you were born with. It's insulting and irrelevant to demand an original birth certificate and negates adoption.