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Needing Bank Account For Step Child With Our Address
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My partner is needing to set up a bank account for his 15 year old daughter who will soon be 16.
We're needing something for her that is registered in our address and a bank account is the only thing we can think of.
Everything seems to be online now, I've looked around and don't know where to start.
Also, her passport and birth certificate are at her Mums far away. She is going to scan these in for us as this seems to be the forms of ID we need for setting this up for her. Not sure if copies will be allowed though.
We're needing something for her that is registered in our address and a bank account is the only thing we can think of.
Everything seems to be online now, I've looked around and don't know where to start.
Also, her passport and birth certificate are at her Mums far away. She is going to scan these in for us as this seems to be the forms of ID we need for setting this up for her. Not sure if copies will be allowed though.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.>>>Everything seems to be online now
That's only because you've searched online. Any local bank branch can still set up a new account.
>>> Not sure if copies will be allowed though
A normal photocopy (or scanned and emailed copy) almost certainly WON'T suffice. Your stepdaughter's mother will probably need to take the passport into a local solicitor's office to get a 'certified' copy, which can then be posted to you. (It's a simple process and only costs a standard £5 fee).
That's only because you've searched online. Any local bank branch can still set up a new account.
>>> Not sure if copies will be allowed though
A normal photocopy (or scanned and emailed copy) almost certainly WON'T suffice. Your stepdaughter's mother will probably need to take the passport into a local solicitor's office to get a 'certified' copy, which can then be posted to you. (It's a simple process and only costs a standard £5 fee).
num you need to be determined in this.
it should be one item from list 1 - pass port
and one from list 2 - proof of address, and here a letter posted to her should be sfficient
BC werent good but they may be now - jobsworths will yap about electricity bills and you have to keep on saying she is 15 the bill wont be in her name. and then when the jobsworth triumphantly says then she cant have a bank account then,
Insist that it cant be the first time a 15 y o has opened an account....
torture - absolute torture
and then the jobsworth's mgr said 'but we dont know if you're a drug smuggler ! ' - as if that statement were the equivalent of the ace of trumps
and I said actually you do: I have had this account since 1986 and you know my employer is large and local.....
RBS but they're all crap. The law changed to make them liable if they indulged unknowlingly in drug money trading
so the overpaid jobsworths stuck their pencils in their mouths
and said oh I know - we'll close all their accounts !
it should be one item from list 1 - pass port
and one from list 2 - proof of address, and here a letter posted to her should be sfficient
BC werent good but they may be now - jobsworths will yap about electricity bills and you have to keep on saying she is 15 the bill wont be in her name. and then when the jobsworth triumphantly says then she cant have a bank account then,
Insist that it cant be the first time a 15 y o has opened an account....
torture - absolute torture
and then the jobsworth's mgr said 'but we dont know if you're a drug smuggler ! ' - as if that statement were the equivalent of the ace of trumps
and I said actually you do: I have had this account since 1986 and you know my employer is large and local.....
RBS but they're all crap. The law changed to make them liable if they indulged unknowlingly in drug money trading
so the overpaid jobsworths stuck their pencils in their mouths
and said oh I know - we'll close all their accounts !
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