Guidance on Getting Identification Verified for Land Registry Using Form Id1

This form is required to verify your identity with us when you are not represented by a solicitor. The ID1 form can be found on our website. You must complete Section A, then get your identity verified either by a solicitor, barrister, a licensed conveyancer or notary public. They might charge you a fee for doing this. Alternatively you can make an appointment with us to go to one of our Customer Information Centres to get your identity verified. Wherever you go, you will need to take evidence of your identity with you, including a recent passport-sized photograph in which your face is clearly visible. If you are having your identity verified by a solicitor or a barrister or one of the other professionals that I mentioned earlier, you will need to take two identical and recent passport-sized photographs. To show evidence of your identity you need to take either a current, valid, full passport or a current UK/EU/Isle of Man/Channel Islands photocard driving license - not a provisional one - or a current identity card issued by the UK Identity Passport Service to a non-UK national resident in the UK or two of the following, but no more than one of each type: a credit card bearing the MasterCard or Visa logo, American Express or Diners Club card or a debit or multi-function card bearing the Maestro or Delta logo which was issued in the United Kingdom and is supported by an original paper account statement less than three months old, a paper utility bill less than three months old, a council tax bill for the current year, a council rent book showing the rent paid for the last three months, a paper mortgage statement for the mortgage accounting year just ended, or a current firearm or shotgun certificate. The solicitor or the Land Registry officer will then sign and date Section B. You will have gathered from everything that I have said that there are quite a few factors to be considered in identity verification, really too many to cover properly in this video, so we strongly recommend that you read the detailed guidance on our website about our identity verification requirements. If you want to go to a Land Registry Customer Information Centre, which are open Monday to Friday 8:30am to 6pm to have your identity verified, you must contact us first to check that the evidence you intend to produce is sufficient and to make an appointment for us to see you. You will need to give us at least 72 hours notice of your request for an appointment. You must make an appointment: if you don't have one, we won't be able to see you. You can complete the form on our website to make an appointment. We will not verify your identity in advance of you actually leaving your completed application with us, so you can't come in just to have your identity verified, we will need you to have your application with you ready to be left with us. Also everyone who needs to have their identity verified must come to our office at the same time. So in our example, both Mr and Mrs Smith must come together. If we are unable to confirm your identity, your application will be rejected. If you can't go to a solicitor or a barrister or one of the other professionals I mentioned earlier and you can't come to one of our Customer Information Centres to have your identity verified, you can email us - details are on our website - and you can ask whether alternative arrangements can be made. You might think all of this is a real nuisance but we need to be sure that we're dealing with the right people in order to help prevent identity theft and fraud and these requirements are very similar to the identity checks that are made by other organisations including banks.