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Hi guys,

Really looking for help with the extremely confusing C1 application for my British passport. I'm from Australia but my mother was born in Scotland and for her own weird reason she won't let me use her copy of her birth certificate to use in my application. I ordered a copy with GRO over the phone and they sent me an (I quote):
"Extract of an entry in a REGISTER OF BIRTHS"
at the bottom is reads:
"This extract is evidence of an event recorded in a register. It is NOT evidence of the identity of the person presenting it"

3 questions.
1) Is this enough to send off, because that note at the bottom is very off putting/worrying?
2) If not, where can I get a full copy of the certificate from? As opposed to the extract.
3) Apart from proof of my mother's identity/birth, my birth certificate, and some forms of identity (along with all the relevant froms to apply obviously), is there anything I'm forgetting that I need to include in the application?

Thanks

You do not need to worry about the notice at the bottom that you quote. No birth certificate is ever proof of identity, as someone who is not the person named in the certificate could hold the document and claim to be the person named on it. (In fact, identity theft committed by those in the possession of the birth certificate of another is surprisingly common.)


If your mother's name changed before you were born such that the name on her own birth certificate is not exactly the same as the listing for mother on your certificate, then you need evidence of the name change. This is quite common where a mother's married name is listed on her child's certificate and the marriage certificate is needed in such an instance.