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I don't know how well you know your GP, olisun, but it may be that you were lucky...olisun wrote:the GP is only bothered about the money...
check my reply in the following post
http://www.immigrationboards.com/viewto ... ght=#39703
Does anyone know why they require a countersignatory for your photograph when they already have your home country's passport as proof of identity?On a passport applicatio the countersignatory is only attesting to your identity - nothing else. If UKPS decide to follow it up, the questions asked are likely to be restricted to "Did you really sign this form?" "How long have you known this person?" "How do you know it's him?" etc.
- Not everyone has a home country apart from the UKDawie wrote:Does anyone know why they require a countersignatory for your photograph when they already have your home country's passport as proof of identity?On a passport applicatio the countersignatory is only attesting to your identity - nothing else. If UKPS decide to follow it up, the questions asked are likely to be restricted to "Did you really sign this form?" "How long have you known this person?" "How do you know it's him?" etc.
ppron747 wrote:I don't know how well you know your GP, olisun, but it may be that you were lucky...olisun wrote:the GP is only bothered about the money...
check my reply in the following post
http://www.immigrationboards.com/viewto ... ght=#39703
On a passport applicatio the countersignatory is only attesting to your identity - nothing else. If UKPS decide to follow it up, the questions asked are likely to be restricted to "Did you really sign this form?" "How long have you known this person?" "How do you know it's him?" etc.
On a naturalisation application, he is saying that he knows you well enough to know that you are of good character, and a suitable candidate for naturalisation. Any follow-up is likely to ask questions of a more searching nature, about the character and behaviour of the applicant. My GP knows me well enough to sign my passport application, but he has no idea what I get up to in the evenings and at weekends. He knows nothing about my private life. He would not be able to give a "good interview" about me to anyone taking up a reference, because we only know one another professionally.
I really don't think I'm alone in this. Most people's lives aren't like The Archers, and most people's GPs are not suitable as character references....
That is why they ask for referees, olisun - so they can do precisely that - or interview them in person. I have been inteviewed in person, so I know it happens, although I don't know how often....olisun wrote:do you think the HO is going to call up the GP and ask him about you?
rest I leave it to you to decide....
you missed this line and alsoolisun wrote: and where does it say on the form that the refree has to know the candidate's private life...
nope, the GP hardly knows me... lolppron747 wrote:
I don't know how well you know your GP, olisun, but it may be that you were lucky...
Once again do you think the HO will ask the "GP" to attend an interviewppron747 wrote:
My GP knows me well enough to sign my passport application, but he has no idea what I get up to in the evenings and at weekends. He knows nothing about my private life. He would not be able to give a "good interview" about me to anyone taking up a reference, because we only know one another professionally.
I don't have a copy handy, but AFAICR the referee needs to know the candidate in a personal capacity - not just professional. If substituting "personal" for "private" in my earlier post makes you happy, please feel free...olisun wrote:you missed this line and alsoolisun wrote: and where does it say on the form that the refree has to know the candidate's private life...
nope, the GP hardly knows me... lolppron747 wrote:
I don't know how well you know your GP, olisun, but it may be that you were lucky...
Once again do you think the HO will ask the "GP" to attend an interviewppron747 wrote:
My GP knows me well enough to sign my passport application, but he has no idea what I get up to in the evenings and at weekends. He knows nothing about my private life. He would not be able to give a "good interview" about me to anyone taking up a reference, because we only know one another professionally.
As I understand it ABI will apply to all first-time, adult applicants for British passports in the UK - not to children, and not to all applicants.Chess wrote:By the way starting October 2006 - All passport applicants including indegenous Brits will have to attend an interview..
..I wonder what sort of questions they will be asking babies?