Post #2961444
2025-09-26 17:26 UTC
@edzilla@social.edzilla.info @underseamonkey@fosstodon.org @duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk @jonpsp@mstdn.social @cfy@mas.to @AlisonW@fedimon.uk Because you supply a paper copy of your birth certificate with your passport application? Or is that no longer a thing?
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@duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk 2025-09-26 19:59
@TimWardCam@c.im @edzilla@social.edzilla.info @underseamonkey@fosstodon.org @jonpsp@mstdn.social @cfy@mas.to @AlisonW@fedimon.uk it was still a thing when I applied for both my kids first passports and they were both born after 2010. You don't need extra documents when renewing an in date passport as they already store all the necessary information. Whilst the passport office does allow outside access to their database, the data isn't just freely available to every government department that wants to look at it. But a universal ID, requires universal access.