ARGH DF's Passport is only valid til June

And I'm worried this is going to cause a problem. His Mum is in Egypt and so we can't get his Birth Certificate from her until she gets back and that's in like 2 weeks. Does anyone think this will cause a problem? What should I do? 

T I A

We are talking about a British birth certificate here? If so, why doesn't he just get a new one? There are two places ... the Register Office where his birth was registered all those years ago .... or by post.

Cause a problem for what?

A problem in proving that he's a Citizen by birth?

You have still not given us any information about what passport, and what birth certificate?

If it is the renewal of a British passport we are talking about here, I don't think the birth certificate is required.

And why do you need his passport?  Are you applying for your visa?

You don't need the birth certificate to apply for a renewal of an American one either, just the old passport.

Sorry I am submitting my Fiance Visa paperwork in a week or so.

In that case I think you two are just fine with his passport the way it is now, if you're submitting it relatively soon-ish. And I guess if you're overly concerned, he can get a certified copy of his birth certificate like JohnL said and then just get photocopies of his passport pages, but I think you're fine with what you got.

he can get a certified copy of his birth certificate like JohnL said

Technically, that is very right! Every UK birth certificate, marriage certificate etc says on it that it is a certified copy of the entry in the Register. The actual record is kept in the Register Office where the birth etc was registered.

So if we are talking about a birth certificate issued when the birth was registered, that will say it is a certified copy ..... and if another copy is issued now, many years later, that will also say it is a certified copy.

But the important point is this. The newly-issued copy is not a certified copy of birth certificate handed to the parents many years earlier. Both that issued-soon-after-birth one and the newly-issued one, are both copies of the entries in the Register at the Register Office ... and both are just as valid as each other.

Technically, that is very right! Every UK birth certificate, marriage certificate etc says on it that it is a certified copy of the entry in the Register. The actual record is kept in the Register Office where the birth etc was registered.

So if we are talking about a birth certificate issued when the birth was registered, that will say it is a certified copy ..... and if another copy is issued now, many years later, that will also say it is a certified copy.

But the important point is this. The newly-issued copy is not a certified copy of birth certificate handed to the parents many years earlier. Both that issued-soon-after-birth one and the newly-issued one, are both copies of the entries in the Register at the Register Office ... and both are just as valid as each other.

Yeah, all that is where I got confused when I got my fiance's paperwork a few weeks ago. But, once it got explained to me like that I understood we were okay, I just had never really thought on how you never really have your *original* birth certificate--I got my certified copy from the county in California I was born in, where my *original* one is at. Once I figured that part out, I understood it a bit better

Edit: more of my confusion at the time also came from how accustomed I am to using the terms 'original' and 'certified' in ways differently from what they're used for in the UK--it's a bad habit for me to refer to one of my birth certificates as my original, when technically it's a certified copy, just as is the one I mailed off for in California.

He was born in a town many hours from where he lives now and doesn't have a day off in the next two weeks because he owns his business and too many people are on vacation. I have to submit the paper work in less then a week in order to make sure I get my Visa in time for my travel date. I booked my ticket before we decided I should just apply for my Visa at the same time because the date of travel is DF's Bday. 

I know I have a screwed up situation I just wanted some assurance that his passport should suffice even though it's only valid til June. 

I mean it does say he's a Citizen on it right?

Take a moment.

You are applying for a visa.  He is your sponsor.  You are supplying a British pasport as evidence that he is resident in the UK.  Why do you think it is a problem that it expires in two months?


Vicky

LOL because I'm a stress basket!! I've gone and put such a time constraint on us that I keep freaking out and being all neurotic. I'm worried I did something wrong on the app, I'm worried about the passport, I'm worried I won't get my visa in time.

Sorry 

Relax.  They don't a certain amount of time on the sponsor's passport left.  I would suspect the US VSDs would probablly even accept an expired UK passport.  You are just proving he is settled and present in the UK and is a UK Citizen.  You aren't even trying to prove how he came by his UK Citizenship.