Are there two types of UK birth certificate?

[CarolA3]

It's not unlike the process for getting married in England, where you're interviewed by the registrars together and separately and have to answer questions about each other.  As with the IPS, they're establishing that you are who you say you are (and that the relationship is genuine, in the case of marriage).

All perfectly sensible and not too arduous, in my opinion.

Carol

[Elwyn Soutter]

Are they actually going to interview everyone over 16 who wants a first passport?  There will be a huge backup.

Yes. They took on extra staff and opened extra local offices to deal with this.

[larkspur]

To be fair, it was not too much bother ( apart from the 126 mile round trip, morning off work etc)  and the passport arrived with us 2 days later.

[PaulineJ]

Are they actually going to interview everyone over 16 who wants a first passport?  There will be a huge backup.

Yes. They took on extra staff and opened extra local offices to deal with this.

It didn't apply to my daughter when she got her first adult passport .
but she's has a passport since she was about 3 months.

[Forfarian]

There are more than two types, because the discussion so far has related to the certificates issued in England and Wales, and the ones issued in Scotland are different*. There are also Northern Irish certificates, and people born in Northern Ireland before 1922 have Irish birth certificates.

*Scottish birth certificates have always included the actual time of birth, not just the date, and in 1855 and since 1860 they also state the date and place of the parents' marriage (unless of course they weren't married).

As in England and Wales, the Registrar issues a short certificate which does not include the parents' details, and a full certificate with all information is available for a fee.

[KGarrad]

Adding to the confusion, please remember that Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man are not in the UK, and issue their own Birth Certificates.

[Forfarian]

Adding to the confusion, please remember that Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man are not in the UK

Indeed. Which is why I didn't mention them above Or Herm, Sark or Alderney.

[KGarrad]

Adding to the confusion, please remember that Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man are not in the UK

Indeed. Which is why I didn't mention them above Or Herm, Sark or Alderney.

OK! Maybe I should have said the States of Guernsey (which covers Herm, Sark & Alderney!) and the States of Jersey

I paid a visit to the Isle of Man Civil Registry just this week.
For a fee of £5.50, I was able to search the 1885 Register of Births, and photograph the required entry. Only available in person, of course.

[Forfarian]

I paid a visit to the Isle of Man Civil Registry just this week.
For a fee of £5.50, I was able to search the 1885 Register of Births, and photograph the required entry. Only available in person, of course.

Was the £5.50 a per visit or a per certificate fee?