God Bless, <– I like the part of not being able to use ‘Jesus’ as a first name… LOL!
Tracy

We Brits have the same problems in proving our identity. I recently wanted to open a new bank account over the internet with a mainstream bank and although I already had an account with them, they wanted fresh proof that I am who I say I am. I took my passport and a utility bill to the local police station and the uniformed officer on duty did me the service of putting the official police station stamp on copies of each plus his own signature, certifying they were true copies of the originals (as required by the bank). He spent about 10 – 15 minutes making the copies, filling in the accompanying form etc etc and I thought what a thorough job had been done. But no! Two weeks later the bank tell me they can’t accept the copies as true because the policeman had written his occupation as Charge Officer instead of Police Officer. Have you ever heard of anything so absurd?

Anyway, with the weak £ and strong Nkr I’m now looking to open an account with a Norwegian Bank with a UK branch and keep all my cash in krone. Got no-where so far searching the internet. Any suggestions?

Best wishes.

Interesting reading about all the crazy obstacles to changing your name; can’t say I had any problems changing to a compound surname after I got married. But then again, I still live in Norway, and no-one else was using Brekkevold as surname

The only minor hassle was that Norwegian credit card companies don’t update from the National ID Registry based on your personal ID number, so I needed to mail them a copy of my name change certificate.

Peace.

I hope you’re enjoying the EOS400d… I’ve bought 2 weeks before you… it’s simply an amazing camera….