[Osem]

Well, Osem Jnr could be on the verge of getting his very first passport in spite of HMG's attempts to make it virtually impossible. Hurrah! After several attempts to get the forms right and then get the correct advice from IPS as what what supplementary documents we actually needed to send with his application, he finally got to the point of being asked to attend the obligatory interview. Whilst is wasn't quite like being on Mastermind, it was quite a daunting process and he was asked a succession of personal questions by a man in a suit designed to see if he is who he claims to be. All very good I must say, until you consider that passports seem to be fairly routinely issued to all sorts of folks who've come here having deliberately hidden their places of origin and real reasons for doing so. How on earth does the IPS know who they really are or doesn't that matter? Anyway, they don't tell you how well you've done so we're keeping fringers crossed that the powers that be deem he's British enough to have a passport.