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The new passport conditions for young children are absolutely rediculous!!! I just finished my passport interview for me and my two kids this afternoon and only my application was accepted. My sons (18 month old) had his rejected because the photo is narginally under size, what the government wants for a babies photo is ludicrous and obviously the conditions were written by someone who either has no kids or has nothing to do with their kids. Try getting a child from birth up to age 3 to sit on a stool not move their head, not have any facial expression, eyes focused straight ahead and keep their mouths closed. Then if your lucky enough to get your child to meet those conditions then you rely on the photographer to produce the correct image, not too dark, not too light, no shadows across the face, no shadow behind the head, head perfectly centered, have to see both ears head cannot be slightly turned, and image has to meet the sizing chart. Bugger me! We got my sons photo just right but marginally undersize by about 1/4 of a millimetre and the Post Office interviewer rejected it and told me to reschedule with new photos.
So off I go back to the camera store and told them what occured and he goes off the deep end and says nope he would not redo the photo and gave me my money back. Well that is just great so I go back to the P.O. and tell them the photo store wont redo the photo. The P.O. say tough luck, I say will you do it here and the P.O. says no they wont do passport photos of young children cause it is too hard. :roll: They tell me to try another camera store but the store I just used had already told me that no other store will touch young childrens passport photos. :roll:
Anyway on the off chance I went to the only other camera store that I knew might take young childresn passport photos and they have agreed to try tomorrow but failing that I will have to try it myself and see how I go.
However these rules are just absolutely ludicrous in the extreme. God knows how someone with a 12 month old or below could possibly meet these requirements, once upon a time a young child was just attached to the parents passport but this is no longer allowed.
Oh and my daughter was knocked back on her aplication because they do not accept the comemorative birth certificates even though they are a legal document. So now we have to either get a new extract from BDM or somehow find the original extract which has been missing for sometime now. :roll:
The new passport conditions for young children are absolutely rediculous!!! I just finished my passport interview for me and my two kids this afternoon and only my application was accepted. My sons (18 month old) had his rejected because the photo is narginally under size, what the government wants for a babies photo is ludicrous and obviously the conditions were written by someone who either has no kids or has nothing to do with their kids. Try getting a child from birth up to age 3 to sit on a stool not move their head, not have any facial expression, eyes focused straight ahead and keep their mouths closed. Then if your lucky enough to get your child to meet those conditions then you rely on the photographer to produce the correct image, not too dark, not too light, no shadows across the face, no shadow behind the head, head perfectly centered, have to see both ears head cannot be slightly turned, and image has to meet the sizing chart. Bugger me! We got my sons photo just right but marginally undersize by about 1/4 of a millimetre and the Post Office interviewer rejected it and told me to reschedule with new photos.
So off I go back to the camera store and told them what occured and he goes off the deep end and says nope he would not redo the photo and gave me my money back. Well that is just great so I go back to the P.O. and tell them the photo store wont redo the photo. The P.O. say tough luck, I say will you do it here and the P.O. says no they wont do passport photos of young children cause it is too hard. :roll: They tell me to try another camera store but the store I just used had already told me that no other store will touch young childrens passport photos. :roll:
Anyway on the off chance I went to the only other camera store that I knew might take young childresn passport photos and they have agreed to try tomorrow but failing that I will have to try it myself and see how I go.
However these rules are just absolutely ludicrous in the extreme. God knows how someone with a 12 month old or below could possibly meet these requirements, once upon a time a young child was just attached to the parents passport but this is no longer allowed.
Oh and my daughter was knocked back on her aplication because they do not accept the comemorative birth certificates even though they are a legal document. So now we have to either get a new extract from BDM or somehow find the original extract which has been missing for sometime now. :roll:
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