Scanning Passport

[joannakabana]

Hi all,

My husband has completed his citizenship application and we're scanning documents, ready to go to the Sopra centre this Saturday. We're a little confused by the passport requirement. Do we need to scan every page in each of our passports, or just mine? I can't seem to find advice on this anywhere so I'd be grateful for any help!

Thanks,
joannakabana

[DocKnow]

yes it is better to scan each page of the document and upload. I tried self-uploading a file containing all pages of my passport but it was too big (Sopra system only allows 6MB per file). So when I went for my appointment, I asked the person checking my documents to scan my entire current passport and previous (expired) passports.

Hope this helps.

[Djsuccess]

Hi all,

My husband has completed his citizenship application and we're scanning documents, ready to go to the Sopra centre this Saturday. We're a little confused by the passport requirement. Do we need to scan every page in each of our passports, or just mine? I can't seem to find advice on this anywhere so I'd be grateful for any help!

Thanks,
joannakabana

You can just scan the data page and any page with stamp.

[Djsuccess]

yes it is better to scan each page of the document and upload. I tried self-uploading a file containing all pages of my passport but it was too big (Sopra system only allows 6MB per file). So when I went for my appointment, I asked the person checking my documents to scan my entire current passport and previous (expired) passports.

Hope this helps.

If you decided to scan all the pages, you can reduce the size using Adobe reader...(save as..reduced size)

[johnhkg]

yes it is better to scan each page of the document and upload. I tried self-uploading a file containing all pages of my passport but it was too big (Sopra system only allows 6MB per file). So when I went for my appointment, I asked the person checking my documents to scan my entire current passport and previous (expired) passports.

Hope this helps.

I managed this file size issue by altering the scanners settings to 150 dpi. My 30 page passport comes out at 2.3MB and is good enough quality to see all information clearly.

[joannakabana]

In the end, I decided to scan them in two parts and save them as "first half" and "second half". It seems to be ok to do it like this.