

Check when you need to get someone else to sign your application and photo, who can and can’t sign - and what they have to do. Some passport applications and photos must be signed by someone else (the ‘countersignatory’) to prove the identity of the person applying.
You must get your form and one photo signed if you’re applying for:
Personal relationship
The countersignatory must:
They can’t be closely related or involved with the person applying, eg:
Countersignatories must work in (or be retired from) a recognised profession or be 'a person of good standing in their community', eg:
• Accountant
• Airline pilot
• Articled clerk of a limited company
• Assurance agent of recognised company
• Senior Bank Official
• Lawyer
• Chairman/director of limited company
• Chiropodist
• Notary Public
• District Commissioner
• Senior Civil servant (permanent)
• Dentist
• Engineer - with professional qualifications
• Financial services intermediary, eg a stockbroker or insurance broker
• Senior Fire service official
• Funeral director
• Insurance agent (full time) of a recognised company
• Journalist
• Justice of the Peace
• Legal secretary
• Manager/personnel officer of a limited company
• Member, associate or fellow of a professional body
• Member of Parliament
• Minister of a recognised religion
• Nurse - RGN or RMN
• Officer of the Prison or Police Force
• Optician
• Paralegal - certified paralegal, qualified paralegal or associate member of the Institute of Paralegals
• Person with honours, eg an OBE or MBE
• Pharmacist
• Photographer - professional
• Police officer
• Post Office official
• President/secretary of a recognised organisation
• Salvation Army officer
• Social worker
• Solicitor
• Surveyor
• Teacher, lecturer
• Trade union officer
• Travel agent - qualified
Please Note : Individuals who work for the Turks and Caicos Islands Passport Office cannot be counter signatories.
Three Degrees Office Complex Airport Road
Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands
Phone: (649) 338-2940
Email: tcipassport@gov.tc