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by Christophe » Fri May 11, 2012 3:39 pm
The passport application form is very deficient in this regard. Many years ago there were multiple forms, for use depending on the basis on which one was applying (birth, descent, naturalisation, birth in a colony...) – this of course made it easy if one knew to ask for the right form (no internet back then!) but impossible if one got the wrong form.
So the forms were stream-lined into one: a good idea, but no one seemed to think that it might be necessary to add helpful instructions about which parts of the form needed to be filled in by which people!