I’m born here and a citizen, however I don’t have a passport, nor a copy of a birth certificate yet I need to prove I have a right to work here for a job.
From my look on the gov site, I can use a passport to get my birth certificate or a birth certificate to get a passport. Neither of which is any bloody help.
Does anyone know what to do?
IIRC print them out and get them signed by a justice of the peace, police officer, or post office worker or some such.
Doesn’t a JP only certify the copy, agreeing that the original exists and they have sighted it.
I don’t think showing them a copy will be much good on its own.
I’m only guessing really but I think they should be ok if the digital copies could be considered the original. For example I would expect that a printout of a digital bank statement would be something that you could get certified as you can pull up your bank website/app and display the ‘original’, but you might run into issues trying to convince someone that a photo of a card counts as it’s clearly not the original form.
When I was renting I got my bills by email and printed 2 copies of the document. One for the JP to sign and one to keep as the original.
Thank you so much!
Check the requirements with the intended institution they tend to differ sadly. :(