Puggle
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I got passports for my kids this year. I needed the birth certificate, photos, my own and partners birth certificates and both our signatures on the form. Also needed someone who had known the kids for a period of time (I think 5 years) to sign the photo and the form saying they were who I said they were. I paid extra to get the express service and the passports were done in about 4 or 5 days. I was very surprised how quickly I got them but we all have the same surname so perhaps that makes it simple?? I imagine there are probably ways you can get around this....say having all the correct docs but using a different photo (you can get anyone to sign the doc I suppose). However I note that many countries now photograph you as you enter. Some do retina photos and fingerprint you too (this certainly happened to us in the states).
I found it interesting that there had been a report by two independent people that called 000 stating a child was with someone about to board a flight to New Zealand who resembled William (Mid March from Memory)....Police took it seriously enough to get CCTV footage from the airport and even thought the lead promising...they had police waiting at the other end when the flight landed ...but it wasn't William.
To me this says that police know it "could" be possible to have fake passports for a child - otherwise they would have simply dismissed it.... As they would have faith that ID Passport.. security check for children is fail proof..
Very scary thought that a child could simply be whisked away to another country....