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Renewing My Driving Licence
This is up next month but I can't do it online so got the form from the Post Office and have filled it in and when I get new photo will post it.
However at the very end of the form it wants someone to certify on the back of the photo that I am who I am but it is looking for a person with a Profession. I was just going to ask my friend who is retired but just to put Housewife - will that pass.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.My doctor's practice refuses to countersign passports or driving licences. They used to charge for it (£15 I think when they stopped about 15 years ago) and were told they could not, so they stopped entirely.
They will provide certification for travel insurance claims, for which they charge between £25 and £100, depending on what intricacies the certification demands.
This has a list of who can sign
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From the guidance notes:
if none of the above are available, any other person employed in a position of responsibility can sign.
so ask in the post office or local shop.
However if your appearance has not changed since you got your last driving licence - you can send in a passport type photograph without certification which means without a signature from an authorised person
Do you have a local authority voting card? Or a bus pass? You could just go to your Town Hall with your proof of identity/residence and they would then vouch for you.
We (a few of us in the village) have struggled to get a driving licence renewed for a chap who is a sheep farmer, has hit 70, and only has an old, paper licence. He has no passport, no photo I.D. of any sort. Eventually it got done by the things I mentioned above ..... if necessary several of us would have written a round-robin vouching for him. The chap who eventually signed his photo was not a professional, but a well respected chap with his own ID in order. Hope this helps.