Can an unqualified teacher countersign a passport? can a hospital pharmacy technician? both have degrees.?

Question

Can an unqualified teacher countersign a passport? can a hospital pharmacy technician? both have degrees.?

Answer 1

NOT IN CANADA

Answer 2

The person providing the countersignature must not be related to you by birth or marriage.  Neither should they be in a personal relationship with you (this includes a same s*x relationship) nor live at the same address.

Acceptable countersignatures:

Accountant

Airline Pilots

Articled clerk of a limited company

Assurance agent of recognised company

Bank/building society official

Barrister

British Computer Society (BCS) - Professional grades which are Associate (AMBCS), Member (MBCS), Fellow (FBCS) (PN 25/2003)

Broker

Chairman/director of limited company

Chemist

Chiropodist

Christian Science practitioner

Commissioner of oaths

Councillor: local or county

Civil servant (permanent)

Dentist

Designated Premises Supervisors

Director/Manager of a VAT registered Charity

Director/Manager/Personnel Officer of a VAT registered Company

Engineer (with professional qualifications)

Fire service official

Funeral director

Insurance agent (full time) of a recognised company

Journalist

Justice of the Peace

Legal secretary (members and fellows of the Institute of legal secretaries)

Local government officer

Manager/Personnel officer (of limited company)

Member of Parliament

Merchant Navy officer

Minister of a recognised religion

Nurse (RGN and RMN)

Officer of the armed services (active or retired)

Optician

Person with honours (e.g. OBE MBE etc.)

Personal Licensee Holders

Photographer (professional)

Police officer

Post Office official

President/Secretary of a recognised organisation

Salvation Army officer

Social worker

Solicitor

Surveyor

Teacher, lecturer

Trade union officer

Travel agency (qualified)

Valuers and auctioneers (fellow and associate members of the incorporated society)

Warrant officers and Chief Petty Officers

Answer 3

I've already answered this one but, NO YOU CAN'T, it will go down as fraud if you do!