How to get a passport for a baby

Baby C. can have both a French and a British passport so the Anlgo French paperwork race is on.
Unfortunately, due to a mis-communication between Mr. C and me, the Anlgo entrant got off to a late start as, at first I only ordered one copy of my birth certificate rather than two. When the second arrived I completed the paperwork and, being paranoid, enclosed every single piece of identification we had, my birth certificate, Mr. C’s birth certificate, Baby C’s birth certificate, our marriage certificate, Mr. C’s inside leg measurement and it went off a week later. And so, while most army’s march on their stomachs, British bureaucrats run on tea so we expect the British entry back first even though it went off after the French.
The hardest part of this process has been getting a picture of the baby. The French guidelines require the head to measure exactly 32mm from chin to forehead in the picture, which was a problem as it seems our baby has a tiny head and it took three goes before the man could get 32mm. Unfortunately we were so intent on the head measurement we didn’t notice that the cuff of my jumper was showing in the photograph which means that it may or may not get passed by the French passport people.
While the English are a little more forgiving on the size of a baby’s head in the photograph they are very strict on the paper that is used. It has to be blank on the back. The local studio we went to only had Kodak branded paper and so after a call to the helpline who helpfully told us the photo would be rejected we went along to another studio for another set of photos. By this, the third set, we were quite the experts at holding up a 9 week old baby for head shots so it only took a few minutes. But still no blank paper, it seems it isn’t possible on the island. Who knows why? Still the chap seemed confident the photos would be okay so we chanced it and off it all went.

Mr. C is very frustrated that Baby C. has to have a passport, and while I understand and can sympathise with the reason behind it – to stop one parent taking a child abroad without the other parent’s consent – when it comes to doing the paperwork it can be rather frustrating.

Still Baby C. should be the proud owner of a probably, British passport in a couple of weeks.

By the way because Baby C. and I have British passports it means that countries are required to be nice to us, the Queen says so.