On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:03:24AM +0100, Luis Motta Campos wrote: > Sue Spence wrote: > > For a one-off deal like this, it's better to work with a friend with the > > goods (US bank acount). Failing that, it would realistically be easier to > > say "I am going to get married, and it is going to cost a rather silly > > amount of money to get TX to give me the paperwork I need." Setting up a > > bank account is a lot of fuss for one transaction. > > > > I don't suppose the UK can accept your passport instead? I have usually > > found that the two are interchangeable, but I didn't get married here. :-) > > As a matter of fact, the Spanish passport and birth certificate are not > exchangeable: there is one bit of information in the birth certificate > that is never copied anywhere else, the civil register branch where > you're registered in Spain, which is the ultimate irreplaceable proof of > citizenship, for the Spanish government.
Since birth certificates mention parents, you can determine with the birth certificates whether the bride and groom share a parent (many countries forbid marriage between (half-)siblings). You cannot find out that information from passports. OTOH, every Dutch citizen has his/her own personal number, which is the primary key to find out all information goverments have stored about them. And said number can be found in the passport. Abigail