ID checks

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Hi everybody

Hoping someone has been in same boat... ID checks..

We all sell/buy holiday abroad drive/tow.. but what about those who don't and will never...

My hubby's mother is 90 years hmy: and selling her house as she going in a home.... but the solicitor is being a pain because she has no photo id at all..... and there is a buyer waiting who is now getting impatient (cash buyer) and selling house is a must and time is against us..

So what can we do, what has anyone else done... all winges/wines will be listened to ......

thanks

 

[JonnyG]

the first thing that crosses my mind assuming no passport or photo Id is, ask a solicitor, the one that's being a pain ,after all he or she of all people should know what is needed,its their job to know.

 

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yep they should..

its a she, and she has asked if his moms got a bus pass at 90 ..... she is driven everywhere... she is going to ask her boss what to do etc etc...

I know what I would say but it is hubby who has to deal with her....he wishes now he hadn't gone to them , but the other sollicitor knows his mom and has not long done her will personally in hospital to get her to sign and read it all out to her... shes not gaga...

Doe the land registry need photo and keep ID's on file??

 

[WoodlandsCamper]

When someone is being vetted for a CRB/DBS then there is a hierarchy of documents to proves ones identity see here. If those documents are good enough to prove the persons identity for the vetting then they should also be good enough also for other purposes of proving identity. They may help.

 

[WoodlandsCamper]

Doe the land registry need photo and keep ID's on file??

No

 

[JonnyG]

I know i don't sound helpful and what a strain it can all be to sort out, but cannot help but thing solicitors are being stupid,surely it is something they should know all about .as for land registry, how long has your mother in law lived at her address ? my parents bought their first home in 1963 and it not on the registry i believe it became common/compulsory at a later date in the 70s.. sorry about your situation maybe the citizen advice bureau,could shed some usefull light on this topic.although frankly i am bemused by that pain of a solicitor ..good luck

 

[Dustydog]

Ridiculous!
I'm in my 60's. Passport expired and no I D card. I am allowed to drink in my Local.
No one has told me to get an ID.

 

[Parksy]

My other half has no photo ID at all but her bank debit card is normal ID as is a doctors medical card.
Appearances change so photo ID isn't particularly useful except for jobsworth types.

 

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She has lived there since 1951

 

[Damian]

Sadly most cases involving money require photo ID these days due to the Money Laundering Laws.
I could not even scrap my old car without photo ID, and as I did not have any, I had to get a photo driving licence before they would accept the car for crushing.

I also had to produce photo ID when I registered our house with Land Registry, despite living in it since 1974.

 

[Gafferbill]

.......it is all about money laundering and all the rules and regulations professionals have to satisfy.
Your solicitor should know what is required.
It's another example of how decent people have to jump through hoops because of the morons in our society!

 

[Dustydog]

There's something clandestine going on that I hadn't seen before.
MIL, 73, went to a major Birmingham store to collect SIL'S wedding outfit for step son's wedding.MIL had the receipt but was asked for ID proving she was my SIL, the purchaser.
SIL now has to go into town to collect it herself.

 

[DrZhivago]

I have twice recently been refused applications to open savings accounts.

The reason - the road I live on does not have a name, and the on-line application forms insisted on one. I live on a country B-road in Monmouthshire, away from any village, so I put the B-road number. But this B-road number is not a normal part of my address, which I give (if I am allowed to) as ", near , Monmouthshire, ". My applications were rejected because the address did not match word-for-word with that on the utility bills etc which I was then asked to produce.

One application was for a Post Office Savings acccount - you would think they of all people would understand address problems. I stood for 5 minutes in my local Post Office listening to the clerk having an argument with his head office over this (and losing).

I said I am in Monmouthshire, and that is another problem. During (I think it was) 1974-1995 this area was in the county of Gwent. Many on-line forms ask for the house number/name and postcode, and then Boom! they expand this into a full address that they get from some database. Very clever, but more often than not they give my county as Gwent. But Gwent no longer exists. Moreover, the Welsh Assembly, in its wisdom, are talking about changing county boundaries yet again. So my various utility bills and bank statements have various addresses for the same house and there is nothing I can do about it.

One building society branch manager advised me "Don't apply for accounts on-line, it can be a can of worms. Apply in branch if possible." So much for "Joined-up Britain".

 

[Jules_ht]

I live on a country B-road in Monmouthshire, away from any village, so I put the B-road number. But this B-road number is not a normal part of my address, which I give (if I am allowed to) as ", near , Monmouthshire, ". My applications were rejected because the address did not match word-for-word with that on the utility bills etc which I was then asked to produce.

I said I am in Monmouthshire, and that is another problem. During (I think it was) 1974-1995 this area was in the county of Gwent. Many on-line forms ask for the house number/name and postcode, and then Boom! they expand this into a full address that they get from some database. Very clever, but more often than not they give my county as Gwent. But Gwent no longer exists. Moreover, the Welsh Assembly, in its wisdom, are talking about changing county boundaries yet again. So my various utility bills and bank statements have various addresses for the same house and there is nothing I can do about it.

I have to wonder (and I apologise that this is of no help to the OP, to whom I can offer no assistance), whether your attachment with the latter may have contributed to the former. What do you get it you put your postcode into the RM postcode finder? Could you not have just put your house name followed by whatever the RM PAF says is associated with your postcode and just accept that you need to lose the attachment to what you think your address should be and use what RM dictate it to be? Who cares if it says Gwent if it lands on your door mat?

 

[colin-yorkshire]

.......it is all about money laundering and all the rules and regulations professionals have to satisfy.
Your solicitor should know what is required.
It's another example of how decent people have to jump through hoops because of the morons in our society!

yeah it's crazy, if your old enough to not have photo ID you do not exist, so how do the bills keep finding you !!!

 

[intransient1]

As your mother has lived their most of her life try asking her GP to write a letter stating how long he has looked after her.
Glue a small photo of her on it ang get the GP to sign across th bottom to verify that it is a true likeness as they would if signing a passport application.
This is probably the quickest way.

 

[DrZhivago]

I have to wonder ....whether your attachment with the latter may have contributed to the former.

I am afraid you've lost me there. Do you mean an emotional attachment? Do you mean to Gwent as opposed to Monmouthshire (or vice-versa)?

I don't think you have understood the problem, which is that many websites insist that your addess is entered in a certain way, like insisting you put in a road name, or asking for your house name/number and postcode and the web site then completing the addess automatically. Having done that the website goes and compares that address with a database of addresses it gets from God knows where, and finds they are different. In the case of opening an account you are then asked to call in at a branch to show utility bills, and they are very likely different again (having been created no doubt by other people or the utiliies' websites at some time in the past). No emotional attachment on my part is involved.

What do you get it you put your postcode into the RM postcode finder?

I get something different from what it says in a letter in my posession from the council saying what my official address is. Neither show a road name. But the website of Post Office Savings, who share offices with the RM, would not let me apply without putting in a road name.

Could you not .... just accept that you need to lose the attachment to what you think your address should be and use what RM dictate it to be? Who cares if it says Gwent if it lands on your door mat?

The address that RM "dictate" was unacceptable to Post Office Savings (and others). And I don't give a light whether or not it says Gwent.