Passport In My Maiden Name.

thegirlintheattic

peachyprice wrote: »

Or just leave your own bank cards at home.

Honestly OP, as long as your tickets, passport and esta/visa match no-one is going to start asking you to show your bank cards. US immigration do not have a direct link to the UK, they cannot miraculously call your name up on a computer and know that you got married but haven't changed your passport.

Sure or leave them at home. The problem is if you get pulled for a search they do check your wallet and cards in a different name ring alarm bells. We got stopped a few years back travelling with friends as one had his Chinese name on his passport but the English version on bank cards. We got pulled for a routine check and it took 3 hours of explaining before they let him go.

angelil

^^ This is why you always need to travel with copies of paperwork, and why I travel with a copy of my marriage certificate ALWAYS. If you have the proof they need/want then it should cease to be an issue at that moment.

lostinrates

Nicki wrote: »

I'm quite surprised to see so many people took their husbands name but didn't change their passport until it expired. I must be really sad but I was really excited to get my new passport in my new name, and it was almost as significant to me as the marriage certificate

I actually changed mine before the wedding, so had it in the new name to fly off on honeymoon with the day after the wedding, and even though the passport office told me I didn't have to change it if I didn't want to pay the fee, I chose to do it.

I know it takes all sorts, but it would be weird to me to plan to keep a passport in my maiden name for 8 years after my wedding. Like I would have two identities for all that time, or was keeping my options open for some reason.

I was really excited to be married...the name was incidental. My maiden name passport has just run out, and my new one will be in married name. I also still have a maiden name bamk acc as still earned in professional maiden name for a while. I manage my 'two identities' Just a eaily as a woman can be a wife and a mother and a professional if she chooses. A name is far less difficult to manage than an approach appropriate for circumstances!

If i ha not been earning in maiden name i might have felt differently, at times asking people to pay into a maiden name acc has unvolved. Mild divertion of conversation, but its no big deal!

JoJoB

Taking your marriage certificate with you will help with any queries... but the only thing that will really create a red flag at immigration is you having a ticket in a different name from your passport - so just book your ticket in the name your passport says.

About 10 years ago hubby and I booked a weekend in Amsterdam, and I realised on the way to the airport that I had booked both our tickets in the married name. :eek: Couldn't believe I had been so stupid. At the airport there was much faffing about but the airline actually let me go, without any paperwork to prove my story. The days before 9/11 eh? I was VERY lucky.

But essentially there is no legal requirrement for you to change your name once you are married so if you want to delay all your name changes on bank account/credit cards etc until after you go away you will be fine as long as you remember to book the ticket in the same name as your passport x

marywooyeah

January20 wrote: »

You could also not change your name from your maiden name to your married name until you have travelled to the USA, couldn't you?

seconded, like a lot of other posters I booked honeymoon in my maiden name to save the passport fees. I just shelled out my life savings on entertaining and feeding all the guests it wouldn't be very MSE to then wasted £77.50 changing a passport with years left on it!

OP I'd just book it in your maiden name then wait til after the honeymoon to change it even if it some months away, although I don't know if the fact you've already contacted the passport agency will have any bearing on you travelling in your maiden name.

Nicki

I completely understand that some people don't change their names when they marry, and that some people keep their maiden name for work and their married name for personal. I know loads of people who did, and that wasn't the point of my post.

What I was saying was weird was to use your married name in all areas of your life, but not to change your passport over for 8 years to save £70. So if you start a new job 5 years after you marry and need to travel abroad for work, you have to tell them to book your tickets in a completely different name to the one they know you by, and when you travel with your kids your ticket is in a different name to theirs and you have to use extraneous proof to show immigration that you are their parent just as if you were a single parent by way of two examples.

As I say, horses for courses, but personally I would have found that odd and would not have liked it.

claire16c

LillythePink wrote: »

We went to the US a few years ago and since then to last year, the visa requirements had changed - I didn't have to apply for one when I took OH to NY for his 40th, but last year for a family holiday, we had to apply and pay for visas - things change all the time so I wouldn't take the word of someone who went in 2010 (no offence to Jedi unless they are an Immigration officer or travel agent currently)

You only need a visa if you have a criminal record or are not a British citizen or similar reason.

And ESTA was around in 2010.

peachyprice wrote: »

Or just leave your own bank cards at home.

Honestly OP, as long as your tickets, passport and esta/visa match no-one is going to start asking you to show your bank cards. US immigration do not have a direct link to the UK, they cannot miraculously call your name up on a computer and know that you got married but haven't changed your passport.

Exactly. Its not like when you arrive something will pop on their screen to say 'WARNING this passenger got married and has changed their name check all info on them!!!' :rotfl:

Dont worry about it. Im going to the US in October and my passport doesnt run out til 2014 so theres no way Im paying for a new passport now and wasting all that time on it.

I have cards in both names, - not that Ive ever been asked for a peek at my credit cards so not sure why that has even come up!?

The important thing is that the plane tickets and ESTA are in whatever name your passport is in. If they dont you wont be getting on the plane anyway..

mildred1978

Nicki wrote: »

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I know it takes all sorts, but it would be weird to me to plan to keep a passport in my maiden name for 8 years after my wedding. Like I would have two identities for all that time, or was keeping my options open for some reason.

I renewed my passport a few months before getting married and used my (maiden) name. I didn't change my name after marriage, so my passport, 8.5 years on, still has the same name. I haven't used my husband's name once in all that time. It's such a shame that supposedly liberated women think there's something odd in that.

mildred1978

Nicki wrote: »

, and when you travel with your kids your ticket is in a different name to theirs and you have to use extraneous proof to show immigration that you are their parent just as if you were a single parent by way of two examples.

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So you assume children will always have their father's name?

Mine does (plus mine is his second middle name), and we've travelled long haul, alone, with nobody so much as raising an eyebrow.

Nicki

mildred1978 wrote: »

I renewed my passport a few months before getting married and used my (maiden) name. I didn't change my name after marriage, so my passport, 8.5 years on, still has the same name. I haven't used my husband's name once in all that time. It's such a shame that supposedly liberated women think there's something odd in that.

Bl**dy Hell Mildred would you bother to read what I wrote rather than getting on your feminist high horse.

I do not think there is anything odd at all in not changing your name. Some women do, some don't. My maiden name was mine only because it was my father's, and i felt my union with my husband trumped that with my father so i did change mine. But if i had felt that my maiden name was part of my intrinsic identity i wouldnt have done. And my husband and i discussed both changing our names after we married to form a whole new identity, as his middle Christian name is my mother's maiden name so we could have used that and had a link to both families, but he has an unusual surname which we both like, so we decided not too. Feminist enough for you

I do think though there is something very odd in travelling in a name you haven't used for 8 years in any other context to save yourself £70 especially when it will cause a few odd issues like the ones i mentioned which IMHO are unecessary hassle. Clear enough for you?