i want to open an a/c with sharewatch and need a certified copy of my original passport or driving licence. The cops refused to do it, saying they dont do this anymore. Anybody else had this problem? Its a pain as now i have to go off and find an accountant or solicitor, which i dont have and ask them to do it for me!
If your Garda station won't cooperate you can also have a chartered accountant, solicitor or your bank manager certify your ID.
Anybody else had this problem? Its a pain as now i have to go off and find an accountant or solicitor, which i dont have and ask them to do it for me!
Foxtrot said:my husband, who has a plastic Ukranian passport cover over his British passport (purchased in the Ukraine as a souvenier on a trip with the lads). The Garda point-blank refused to make a certified copy until I pulled it out of the cover and showed him that it was actually a British passport.
This is incorrect - a chartered accountant, or any other accountant, is NOT a recognised authority for this purpose. Neither, as far as I'm aware, is a bank manager.
50. NON FACE TO FACE: RESIDENT PERSONAL CUSTOMERS
Personal Identity
The following are some of the methods which are considered reasonable measures to
establish evidence of personal identity. In this regard there are two options and a credit
institution may use either option:
Option One
?? A certified copy of a passport, drivers licence or identity form verified by Gardaí.
Certification of passports/driving licences should be by a suitable person. Suitable
persons include:
Gardaí Síochána/ Police Officers
Chartered & Certified Public Accountants
Notaries Public/Practising Solicitors
Embassy /Consular staff
Designated Bodies in Ireland or from a country listed in Appendix E.
Thanks for correcting me, Mugs Game. Oddly enough when I was opening a stockbroker account recently, the stockbroker insisted the certification had to be by a solicitor or Garda. If I had known a Chartered Accountant would have sufficed I could have looked in the mirror!
Maybe the stockbrokers knew that you were a chartered accountant and therefore wanted to make sure that you'd get truely independent certification - i.e. not yourself or any of your accountant buddies?
I also had the same when trying to get some form signed/witnessed in a station - greeted by a - "Sure, I don't know who you are, I can't sign that . . ." as if I was asking for something out of the ordinary or illegal or bizarre. I was just doing what it said on the form.
i want to open an a/c with sharewatch and need a certified copy of my original passport or driving licence. The cops refused to do it, saying they dont do this anymore. Anybody else had this problem? Its a pain as now i have to go off and find an accountant or solicitor, which i dont have and ask them to do it for me!
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