ID interview to get a passport

andy · Post by **andy** » 03 May 2006, 21:30

ALL adults applying for new passports in GTR Manchester, must attend a 20-minute face-to-face interview in Manchester, it was announced yesterday.

More than 28,000 people are expected to undergo the interviews every year in a move to combat the growing threat of identity fraud, the Home Office said.

The centre is among the 69 that will be set up across Britain to interview around 610,000 people every year wanting to travel abroad for the first time and will have seven interviewees stationed at the office.

The Home Office insisted the interviews were necessary to stem the 1,500 attempted bogus passport applications made last year alone â€” 75 per cent of which involved first time adult applicants.

With 90 per cent of applications currently made by post, the system is wide open to abuse by fraudsters often filling in false forms abroad, ministers say.

They are particularly keen to stamp out the scam used in novel â€œThe Day of the Jackalâ€

Mickey D · Post by **Mickey D** » 03 May 2006, 23:36

Want to buy a tent................................very cheap. LOL

Kevin Farnell · Post by **Kevin Farnell** » 04 May 2006, 00:24

This Government - dictatorship by the back door!

Kevin

DispatchDragon · Post by **DispatchDragon** » 04 May 2006, 00:39

Well....I guess Im about to become a US citizen after all these years
my passport expires next year (Eu nee British one) I DONT think Im going
to fly all the way home for a 20 min face to face interview with anyone
And as to the crap about Day of the Jackal and using deceased identities
Did Tony Blairs private circus just wake up?? That method has been used to
obtain fake IDs in this country for years (literally) all you need is someone
(child ) who died approximatly your birthdate (want to be ten years younger? can you pull it off??) and apply for a social security card from there
the possibilties are endless.

I guess 1984 came late

Leif

Jetset · Post by **Jetset** » 04 May 2006, 07:25

DispatchDragon wrote: obtain fake IDs in this country for years (literally) all you need is someone
(child ) who died approximatly your birthdate (want to be ten years younger? can you pull it off??) and apply for a social security card from there
the possibilties are endless.

I guess 1984 came late

Leif

Ok boy's. we have got him!

andy · Post by **andy** » 04 May 2006, 10:59

It makes me laugh to think that I served in the forces for twelve years, and they dont know who I am, or may be, or could have been!!! :dance:

Post by **Garry Russell** » 04 May 2006, 11:07

Funny

The inland revenue seems to know who you are where you've been of what you've done.

Garry

andy · Post by **andy** » 04 May 2006, 11:35

Garry Russell wrote:Funny

The inland revenue seems to know who you are where you've been of what you've done.

Garry

Thats very true Garry, but government departments dont communicate with each other, or speak different languages.

It's almost as if they are different company's.

AndyG · Post by **AndyG** » 04 May 2006, 12:24

Can I add my liberal commie pinko point of view at this point? I just wondered where you found the original article Steve?

AndyG

andy · Post by **andy** » 04 May 2006, 12:57

AndyG wrote:Can I add my liberal commie pinko point of view at this point? I just wondered where you found the original article Steve?

AndyG

Local press.