I’m starting to gather the documents required for my biometrics appointment with AIMA. Once of the documents that my lawyer is requesting is a document showing my tax number. As a UK tax payer, it’s easy enough to get this document from the HMRC website.
As part of my initial GV application, the lawyer asked for the document, and I sent it (without an apostille). This time, for my biometrics appointment, the lawyer is requesting that the document showing my National Insurance (ie UK Tax number) be submitted with an apostille. Are there an GV applicants from the UK that have submitted this document with an apostille? An apostille requires a signature on the document to be certified - and this document that is generated and personalised to me, doesn’t have a signature on it. The only solution I can think of is to ask a notary to certify a copy of the printout, and then have their signature apostilled by the FCDO.
I asked my lawyer this question “is an apostille needed on my NI number for Biometrics” their answer was ‘No’.
The lawyer attended Biometrics with me, the HMRC document with NI was accepted without apostille. I was approved soon after.
FWIW At their request I sent all my documents to the lawyer beforehand so they could translate any that needed to be translated, I don’t know if they translated the HMRC document.
You’re welcome.
As @Starts mentioned some interpretations vary from one lawyer to the next, and from one AIMA agent to the other.
In my case, the lawyer said ‘Yes’, so I went ahead and apostilled everything I could
Additionally, I had all my non-PT documents translated by an official PT-based translator, who then notarized her translations with a PT-based notary. That included the NIN piece.
Yes, the other documents such as the ACRO extract are already in my hand and apostilled. I will be getting those notarised via my lawyer’s contact in PT. It’s just the NIN document that was an odd one out.
We definitely did not need to apostille any tax number related documents for biometrics. Maybe challenge your lawyer on this one, as where I live at least, getting documents notarized and apostilled is not cheap.
Let me say that I agree with you on the principle that we should not ‘overdo’ our document prep. But…
Challenging the lawyer is fine, but who is going to challenge the AIMA agent if they suddenly decide to ‘go by the book’? If you look up the official AIMA requirements they do indeed require apostilles/translations on all non-PT documents.
And I suppose we’re not here to save a few quid on an apostille while risking to derail a half a million investment…
I agree with all the above, and add that if you simply don’t want to go by the book or time too short then documents can be submitted after Biometrics if non-compliant (again, according to my lawyer).
or time too short 
then documents can be submitted after Biometrics if non-compliant (again, according to my lawyer).