Identification requirements

Photo requirements

A good quality and current photo of your face and shoulders (front facing) is required and should be scanned at high resolution and uploaded to your AMC account. The AMC will use your photo for identity confirmation and assessment purposes.

All passport-sized photos must be:

• full colour
• 35-40 mm wide and 45-50 mm long
• good quality and scanned at high resolution
• sharply focused (not blurred)
• not too dark and not too light
• not scanned or homemade
• current – no more than 6 months old
• unmarked (no ink or marks on the edge)
• in front of a plain light coloured background
• full-front view of head and shoulders with eyes open and clearly visible
• one of the following file formats, JPEG or PNG
• less than the maximum file size of 5 megabytes

All photos submitted to the AMC must be updated every TWO years.

Your ID passport-sized photo should represent a true likeness and be of good quality.

You can use the same photo as added to your MyIntealth account provided it complies with the requirements listed above.

Note that photos will be rejected if requirements are not met.

You will need to provide a copy of the identification page(s), including signature page and separate page if your names are stated in full on another page in your current and valid passport.  The AMC will amend your name(s) in your AMC account if necessary, to match your passport details.

The scan of your passport must:

• Include the signature page, make sure that the signature can be clearly seen.
• Include all name(s)
• Include nationality
• Include date of birth (dd/mm/yyyy)
• Include gender
• Include place and country of birth
• Include photo
• Include passport number
• Include expiration date
• Show your passport at actual size
• Be clearly legible and scanned at high resolution
• You can scan both the personal details/demographic AND signature pages (if on separate pages) as 1 image (i.e. 2 pages in 1 image etc)
• If no signature is available on your passport, scan a clearly legible copy of your secondary ID (driver’s licence, including front and back and expiration date and signature) with the passport image and scan as 1 image (i.e. 2 pages in 1 image etc). If the driver’s licence is in an original language, then a word-for-word English translation is also required.

Please note that you need to use one of the following file formats: JPEG or PNG, the maximum file size is 5 megabytes.

For detailed information, see the AMC account guide, refer to Steps to create an AMC account and establish an AMC initial portfolio – Identity – Evidence of Name/signature difference/change.

If the name(s) on your qualification(s) are different from the name(s) on your passport, you will need to provide legal evidence to support this name difference.

Legal evidence may include any of the following:

• Marriage certificate
• Change of Name legal document
• Deed Poll legal document
• Birth Certificate

If the signature you uploaded is different to the signature on your passport or other acceptable document, you will need to provide evidence of your signature difference.

To do this, you must submit one of the following valid documents as secondary identification/evidence with your passport.

• a clearly legible copy of your current driver’s licence (must be signed, state the expiration date and be front and back if information is on both sides); OR
• a statutory declaration to confirm your signature and any other official versions of your signature.  You must state which is the current signature to be used for AMC purposes.

A statutory declaration is a written statement declared to be true in the presence of an authorised eligible witness.

You must submit a Statutory declaration form if any of the following apply:

• your passport or driver’s licence does not contain a signature
• the signature on your passport or driver’s licence is not the same as the signature on your application
• you have a name difference (not a legal name change), ie. order of names is different, full name in passport but only initial on qualification(s)

A Statutory declaration may only be used to explain signature and name difference.

It CANNOT be used to legally change your name – this will require an official government issued name change document.

You will need to include one of the types of evidence as listed above in ‘Acceptable documents’.

You will need to upload your Statutory declaration in one of the following file formats: JPEG or PNG. The maximum file size is 5 megabytes. The statutory declaration must be witnessed by an eligible witness.

Eligible witnesses in Australia

The AMC accepts persons listed on the Statutory declaration form as eligible witnesses in Australia.

Eligible witnesses in countries other than Australia

The AMC accepts the following persons as eligible witnesses in countries other than Australia:

• Foreign Notary Public
• Commissioner of Oaths (South Africa, Sudan and Canada only)
• An Australian Consular or Diplomatic Officer or authorised officer. You will need to contact the Australian Embassy or Consular to arrange for an appointment before travelling to ensure that the necessary staff are
• Foreign documents that bear an Apostille issued by a Foreign Government may be submitted without further The AMC accepts an apostille as an eligible witness able to certify documents as part of the primary source verification requirements.
• An Australian Diplomatic Officer means a person appointed to hold or act in any of the following offices of the Commonwealth in a country or place outside of Australia:
  • Ambassador
  • High Commissioner
  • Minister
  • Head of a Mission
  • Commissioner
  • Chargé d’Affaires
  • Counsellor, Secretary or Attaché at an Embassy, High Commissioner’s office, Legation or other
  • Locally engaged staff who have been authorised by the Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to also perform the function.

Fees may be prescribed for consular acts. The regulations may provide for the imposition of fees, to be collected on behalf of the Commonwealth, for the performance, whether in Australia or elsewhere, of consular acts by:

• an Australian Diplomatic Officer or an Australian Consular Officer
• the person holding or acting in the office of Secretary of the Department or an officer of the Department acting with the authority of the Secretary
• an employee of the Commonwealth authorised, in writing, by the Secretary of the Department
• an employee of the Australian Trade Commission authorised, in writing, by the Secretary of the