Id issues

GlasweJen

The problem with changing a name under Scots law is that the registrar can refuse the name change. As you were a child you'd have needed both your parents to consent to change and it's probably been a combination of those two factors that led to your unofficial name change.

dekaspace

GlasweJen wrote: »

The problem with changing a name under Scots law is that the registrar can refuse the name change. As you were a child you'd have needed both your parents to consent to change and it's probably been a combination of those two factors that led to your unofficial name change.

Well he actually changed it back to HIS birth surname, and technically the name on my birth certificate was my fathers assumed name, as far as I know my mother always went by the surname we have now.

So complicated in that sense is his birthname is say "Joe Bloggs" he changed it to "Joe Smith" So I would be born with "Jack Smith" then father goes back to his birth name and unofficially changes mine to say "Jack Smith"

So he changes his official name to a unofficial name, im born then he goes back to his official name and changes mine to his unnofficially.

If any of that makes sense.

Cheeky_Monkey

As you have had a passport in your 'current' name, can't you just renew that?

dekaspace

Cheeky_Monkey wrote: »

As you have had a passport in your 'current' name, can't you just renew that?

Takes ages, costs a lot of money and I haven't been abroad in 13 years.

Hence getting a provisional is my go around which I thought months ago.

w06

You'll end up buying a passport at some point anyway. I've not been abroad since 1997 but the £70 passport fee is still an unavoidable expense really. We all have to prove who we are occasionally, I don't htink a provisional license will be accepted by some places, because as you've discovered there are less stringent checks - and it doesn't prove the same things as a passport does. (startign work anywhere should ask for proof that you'r entitled to work in the uk)

dekaspace

w06 wrote: »

You'll end up buying a passport at some point anyway. I've not been abroad since 1997 but the £70 passport fee is still an unavoidable expense really. We all have to prove who we are occasionally, I don't htink a provisional license will be accepted by some places, because as you've discovered there are less stringent checks - and it doesn't prove the same things as a passport does. (startign work anywhere should ask for proof that you'r entitled to work in the uk)

Actually no, I went abroad once weeks after I got my passport simply as a relative paid for it and wanted company whilst spending 2 weeks abroad on the anniversary of their partners death, I don't like foreign holidays, have zero plans to go abroad ever as I prefer a old fashioned seaside holiday.

And actually every place said a provisional is fine, my friend did have one that wanted a full passport or a birth certificate but wouldn't take even a full license.

I guess its just typical expecting people with not much money such as long term unemployed to pay for something expensive that they can't afford.