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TIL when applying for a British passport online, your identity has to be confirmed by someone who is not a relative, knows you for two years, and has to be from a specific (weird) list of professions.

www.passport.service.gov.uk Confirming someone’s identity: Who can confirm someone’s identity – Apply for a passport – GOV.UK

accountant
airline pilot
articled clerk of a limited company
assurance agent of a recognised company
bank or building society official
barrister
chairman or director of a limited company
chiropodist
commissioner for oaths
councillor - local or county
civil servant - permanent
dentist
director, manager or personnel officer of a VAT-registered company
engineer with professional qualifications
financial services intermediary, for example a stockbroker or insurance broker
fire service official
funeral director
insurance agent of a recognised company - full time
journalist
Justice of the Peace
legal secretary - fellow or associate member of the Institute of Legal Secretaries and PAs
licensee of a public house
local government officer
manager or personnel officer of a limited company
member, associate or fellow of a professional body
Member of Parliament
Merchant Navy Officer
minister of a recognised religion including Christian Science
nurse - registered
officer of the armed services
optician
paralegal - certified, qualified or associate member of the Institute of Paralegals
person with honours - OBE or MBE
pharmacist
photographer - professional
police officer
Post Office official
president or secretary of a recognised organisation
Salvation Army Officer
social worker
solicitor
surveyor
teacher or lecturer
trade union officer
travel agent - qualified
valuer or auctioneer - fellow or associate member of the incorporated society
Warrant Officer or Chief Petty Officer

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sounds like poor people can't leave the country? Wtf that's a human rights violation wrapped in a lot of special red tape
- The vast majority of people have been employed for 2 years by a vat registered company, and can ask one of the directors or managers. This is basically what everyone does.
  
  You just proved my point. Fuck people who aren't employed, right?
  
  You do understand that even if there wasn't this red tape and an unemployed person managed to get the proper papers, they still need money to go anywhere? By your logic every single country on the planet has a pretty glaring human rights violation.
  
  Well thats maybe true because you're on an island. But refugees trying to escape persecution should be able to get out and hopefully find a way without paying

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