Passport name change

dizziblonde

This would be why I let mine expire in March and am hanging on passportless until after the wedding - I'm damned if I'm paying out twice for a passport in the space of the year (considering they cost an arm, leg and are almost up to the level of your first-born as well now)! I'd be interested to see if anyone could bring a sex discrimination case against this as it is, in effect a tax upon women - because the social convention still remains that a woman changes their surname when they get married.

I don't particularly want to spend the next decade booking tickets and things in a maiden name I no longer use.

Caz3121

annie_d wrote: »

Could anyone help? I have booked a holiday for my daughter. SINCE then she has changed her name by deed poll. Can she arrive at the airport with the passport and deed poll documentation. Need she mention the name change at all? Would "they" know she has changed her name?
Thankyou

airlines would normally insist that the name and the passport and ticket match. You are better to check with the airline but be prepared to either pay for a name change on the ticket or get new passport

annie_d

Thankyou Caz

kizzykizzywizzy

This is one of the reasons i'm not going to change my name one divorce is through ( well still undecided, have kids & don't want to have a different name than them & then if I remarry i'll have a different name than them anyway! ) I can understand doing it for happy reasons, getting married etc, but to have to pay so much to change your name because your ex has done the dirty on you seems a bit of a kick in the teeth lol

kindofagilr

Spendless wrote: »

When I married (in 1999) they told me I could carry on using my passport as long as I booked the tickets and insurance in my maiden name too (so the surnames matched). Wonder if that's now been stopped?:cool:

No you can still do that, but when I asked about it I ws advised by the passport office that its illegal to travel in a name that isnt your legal name. Which to me would scare me into booking the holiday etc in my new name and forcing me to change my name on the passport

Oldernotwiser - so sorry for my incorrect choice of words, it may be a valid reason but a one I cannot understand, I paid £82 for my passport in 1998, had no choice but to pay that for a 10 year passport, its a mighty con for women if you ask me, of course the majority of women want to take their husbands surname therefore the majority will have to pay another £82 to change it and lose lots of years.

Oldernotwiser

kindofagilr wrote: »

No you can still do that, but when I asked about it I ws advised by the passport office that its illegal to travel in a name that isnt your legal name. .

But your own name IS your legal name just as much as your husband's!

Using his name when you're married is just a tradition with no legal basis to it. If you choose to change your name,that's fine, but you do have to accept that this is just your personal choice.