I’m born here and a citizen, however I don’t have a passport, nor a copy of a birth certificate yet I need to prove I have a right to work here for a job.

From my look on the gov site, I can use a passport to get my birth certificate or a birth certificate to get a passport. Neither of which is any bloody help.

Does anyone know what to do?

    • Quokka@quokk.auOP
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      8 months ago

      Okay so I need 3 cards, 2 of which I have as digital copies and these documents must all be certified.

      How do I get them to certify the digital copy of my cards? Does someone have to stamp my phone screen and I take a photo of my phone?

      This whole process is so ridiculously complex when I can login to my MyGov or Services Vic and interact with all sorts of services without hassle.

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        8 months ago

        Have you got your identity verified on services vic? If so, you can request a new birth certificate and use your services vic as verification of identity. I just did this recently and the process was pretty smooth.

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        IIRC print them out and get them signed by a justice of the peace, police officer, or post office worker or some such.

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          Doesn’t a JP only certify the copy, agreeing that the original exists and they have sighted it.

          I don’t think showing them a copy will be much good on its own.

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            I’m only guessing really but I think they should be ok if the digital copies could be considered the original. For example I would expect that a printout of a digital bank statement would be something that you could get certified as you can pull up your bank website/app and display the ‘original’, but you might run into issues trying to convince someone that a photo of a card counts as it’s clearly not the original form.

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              When I was renting I got my bills by email and printed 2 copies of the document. One for the JP to sign and one to keep as the original.