Comment on Why do passports need to be signed to be valid?
xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
Legacy from a time when it was used as authentication. I guess. I sure find myself not reproducing my past signatures very well. Never got me in to trouble.
Banks will sometimes require your signature match the original signature they have on file. I’m guessing it’s not as common anymore with online banking but I know a few years ago I had to sign something a number of times because it wasn’t close enough to the original.
I thought about it and it might have been around 10 years ago😬
I nearly got once. In a bank. I signed a document, the signature didn’t quite match, they kept asking me to redo it (“we need it just like in the passport”) but after the third or fourth try they let it through.
Hatechildren@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I had my passport renewal denied because the signature on the renewal form didn’t match the old passport. And since I no longer had the old passport to copy the signature style when I resubmitted, I had to throw in a photo copy of my drivers license (that had my signature), use that signature style on the new form, and a letter explaining that the signature on the new form matches something official and is correct.
cabhan@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
That is a crazy process. But I’m happy that you were somehow able to get a new passport :).