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Italian partner needs to get her passport renewed. Since we have a kid together, the authorities need to vouch my identity too, which kind of makes sense where any nationality claims of our crotchfruit might arise.
What does not make sense is that this requirement essentially means I can prevent my partner getting a new passport, if I don't comply.
If we'd split up acrimoniously or I was just a one night stand, she would not be able to a renewal. Crazy.
What's irritating is that Becoz Brexit, I can't simply sign a photocopy of my identity papers, so I've got to trudge along to the embassy too so I can sign documents in front of some bureaucrat.
What's going to be annoying is that I have *never* had a consistent signature, and the one in my passport is itself a poor facimile of a much older variant, from a passport I renewed in my teens, so is much warped by decades of non use. I literally sign anything I need to with a pointless wee swoosh, because fucking hell if signatures aren't a stupid form of validation.
I love Italy as a country, and its people (well, most of them), but fuck if it doesn't do itself any favours with its often paternalistic and generally over-complicating bureaucracy.
- I'm the same with signatures. Mine's really basic, shit and difficult to reproduce - especially under pressure.Fax_Benson
- When I first came to London I got security-checked at a supermarket, and had to phone up the bank to confirm my identity 'cos sigs didn't match.Nairn
- Funny to think that since we've gone with chip and pin and then contactless and now younglings repeatedly tapping their phones or watches at other electronics.Nairn
- Japanese signature much better: hand crafted wood block cut device, unique to you.shapesalad
- I've thought about laser-etching myself something like that from a nice block of wood. It's on some list I've never completed. One of many.Nairn
- Maybe I should do a side-line in counterfeiting Japanese woodblock signatures. High res scan of sig, PS, laser etch exact same thing.Nairn