Does HMPO Accept Certified Copies of Certificates

[kankerot]

On behlaf of my brother HMPO is asking for the original naturalisation certificate of my mother - I am loathe to send it in to them - would they accept a certified copy from the Post Office?

He has emailed them but they have not replied -

https://www.postoffice.co.uk/identity/d ... tification

Or are we being too cautious in sending in the only real evidence of my mother right to being a british citizen as they don't accept her passport.

[alterhase58]

Generally they only accept originals, they are not just checking the details stated in documents they also check authenticity down to paper and ink…. Personally I had to send them my wife’s certificate and it came back, my own too plus original passports. Note a passport is a travel document not proof of citizenship, the certificate confers citizenship.

[kankerot]

Yes I know a passport is a travel document but then they don't accept birth certificates of the child in question - we are not issued certificates of being UK citizens at birth so they just make it up as they go along.

I simply have no faith in them not losing it as then what evidence would my mother have she is a UK citizen as the passport is not accepted - a piece of paper is all there is.