Countersigning for passport photos. So you want my son's photos countersigned, because obviously he looks a bit different now than he did when he was about one or two in the previous photos, by someone who has known both him and me for at least two years, has a UK passport, is not related to me and has professional qualifications? This could be difficult seeing as we haven't even been back in the UK two years! Well, regulations are an ingenuity test, climb over, slip under.