Making my given name official!

tikki999

coolcait - think you've hit nail on head!

TBagpuss

tikki999 wrote: »

coolcait..i don't really understand what happened. All I know is that since we've been in UK my name at doctors, schools etc was always Jackson even though it's not on my birth certificate! And I insisted the Jones be added on my school qualifications. I do wonder if I can just change my passport with a copy of my birth certificate and then take it from there - just show my passport as proof of my name. So yeah..have no idea what really happened. My parents probably couldn't really tell me either as their English would have been very poor at the time!

Anyway, decided not to add husband's name and looks like there are many mistakes on my marriage certificate which would confuse the issue anyway! Bureaucracy - crazy in every language!

I don't think that you will be able to change your passport just by showing your birth certificate. But in the first instnace, I would contact the passport agency directly and ask them. They should be able to tell you waht they will or won't accept.

Even though you didn't chose to chang eyou name when you entered the contry, you have probably effectively changed your name by usage since then, as you have been using 'Jackson Jones' in the mean time, so antoher cahng, even back to your original name, would be seen as a change of name not as a correction.

I would guess that at the beginning, an official assumed that your name was the same as that of your parents because they were not familair with the naming conventions in our country of origin, and your parents went along with it.

tikki999

TBagpuss - very late response to your 'bang on' theory. I think that's exactly what happened, British authorities unfamiliar with naming conventions and parents unable to express themselves adequately at the time.

More pressing problem now due to 'Brexit' - I will have to substitute my European Driver's Licence, which I've held for over 15 years, for a UK one. I looked into this before but didn't pursue it because of the whole name debacle! Licence is in my original name in issued in country of origin, but official name in UK (on UK passport) is different, sigh!

sheramber

What document was submitted with the first passport application?

That should have been a birth certificate with the name that would appear on the passport. So what proof of name was supplied that showed JACKSON.

Dird

You should forget about both and use your husband's name anyway rather than be the blacksheep of the family (assuming any children have/will take his name).

As someone with a double-barrelled surname I find it annoying as hell

tikki999

sheramber - I don't know. Didn't children travel on parents' passports years ago? So my mum took my dad's surname and I suppose authorities took it for granted that I shared the same surname as my parents? Who knows?

dird - no children, not an issue.

clairec79

Years ago yes children were on their parents passports, I was on my fathers from a tiny baby, but when I got my own passport I still had to provide certificates to prove my name and nationality - and when I renewed and changed the name on it had to prove that too,

clairec79

Just a thought, not all birth certificates have a space for surname, some just have forename and names of parents - used to be that way with UK certificates too

sheramber

tikki999 wrote: »

sheramber - I don't know. Didn't children travel on parents' passports years ago? So my mum took my dad's surname and I suppose authorities took it for granted that I shared the same surname as my parents? Who knows?

dird - no children, not an issue.

But you would have to submit documents when you applied for one in your own name.