Re: Draft SIs on Home Office website

[Adrian Midgley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

It seems reasonable to assume that on Monday 22 September 2003 15:01, Ian 
G Batten wrote:


> > Central Government will have more searching ways
> > to establish your ID (otherwise they'd never be able to bootstrap it
> > in the first place).
>
> Such as what, exactly?  Signature of a member of the white middle
> classes?  As I've said before, my wife and I have signed probably a
> dozen passport applications and at least two citizenship applications.
> We've _never_ been contacted to confirm them.

As I said before, I've signed more than a few, and have been contacted.  
Indeed on one occasion quite a to-ing and fro-ing developed since I had 
de-prioritised finding my own passport in order  to put its number on the 
form.

Eventually I gather the passport office saitsifed themselves that they 
knew who I was and looked up my number in their records.


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