A certified copy means an acceptable referee has endorsed the copy of your identity document.
Referees must be confident the copy of your identity document is a true copy of the original.
To certify a copy of your identity document, your referee needs to do all of the following:
- sight your original document and the copy
- write This is a true copy of the original as supplied to me on each copy
- sign their signature on each copy.
Where documents have multiple pages, the referee must write or stamp I certify this and the following [number of pages] pages to be a true copy of the original as supplied to me on the first page. They should then sign the first page and initial all other pages.
The referee must also write the following details on the first page of each copy:
- occupation of the acceptable referee
- full name and address
- phone number.
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