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My wife needs to have a certified copy made of her passport details to prove her identity to open a savings account with NSI (she's about to go away so doesn't want to send in her actual passport). I don't know how to go about this - who would do certified copies? Solicitors perhaps? Gtfl advice. Tks.
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You pop into a solicitor's firm and ask at reception if anyone is available to do a certified copy. They should only charge you £5. They have to make the copy themselves (don't take a photocopy with you). They have a rubber stamp saying 'Certified Copy' and the firm's name and the solicitor is supposed to sign it with his/her name and date it. Only a solicitor has the power to certify that a document is a true copy of the original. This means it can be admitted in court (if ever needed) as if it were the original. This is the only exclusive power that a solicitor has but there is widespread confusion nowadays with the belief that other professionals can do this. They cannot.