Question about driving licence name change

Car_54

If there is any illegality, surely it's with omitting a name on the passport?

Scrapit

I'd had left the passport as it was and carried on regardless. Sounds like making trouble put of nothing. Literally doing nothing would have been perfectly fine.

Manxman_in_exile

Forget it.


I'm generally only known by my middle name (that's what friends, family and work colleagues know me by) and almost never use my first name. However, for official documents I always use my full name and/or initials as that is what is on my birth certificate.


Interestingly I generally use one of two signatures: either my surname preceded by both initials or my middle name and surname. Never had a problem. In fact my driving licence is in my full name but only signed as middle name and surname.


Generally you can call yourself what you want, but obviously may have difficulties if you need to prove your identity. A paper trail of deed poll or marriage certificate would be useful in this regard.


My wife (and she's a solicitor) uses her maiden name or married name for different things.

borderline

Car_54 wrote: »

If there is any illegality, surely it's with omitting a name on the passport?

oh no, my passport is correct now, I legally dropped my first name

borderline

Manxman_in_exile wrote: »

Forget it.


I'm generally only known by my middle name (that's what friends, family and work colleagues know me by) and almost never use my first name. However, for official documents I always use my full name and/or initials as that is what is on my birth certificate.


Interestingly I generally use one of two signatures: either my surname preceded by both initials or my middle name and surname. Never had a problem. In fact my driving licence is in my full name but only signed as middle name and surname.


Generally you can call yourself what you want, but obviously may have difficulties if you need to prove your identity. A paper trail of deed poll or marriage certificate would be useful in this regard.


My wife (and she's a solicitor) uses her maiden name or married name for different things.

that's the reason I got rid of my first name, everybody knows my by my middle name , never used the first name, it's just how it was on my birth certificate and when I first applied for a passport but a few year ago I officially removed the first name and my passport updated to one forename only.
So now I can't renew my driving licence because it won't match their records without my first name .
I will give them a call tomorrow and see what they say before I send the D1 form

sheramber

Tells you here what to do

https://www.gov.uk/change-name-driving-licence

Car_54

borderline wrote: »

oh no, my passport is correct now, I legally dropped my first name

What do you mean by "legally dropped"?

Manxman_in_exile

Car_54 wrote: »

What do you mean by "legally dropped"?

That's what I was wondering. Deed poll?

borderline

Car_54 wrote: »

What do you mean by "legally dropped"?

I mean that my passport has one forename only. So legally the other first name doesn't exit anymore. Only on my driving licence :cheesy:

DUTR

borderline wrote: »

I mean that my passport has one forename only. So legally the other first name doesn't exit anymore. Only on my driving licence :cheesy:

As many others are trying to explain to you, unless you got it done by deed poll, then it's not legally changed, as others have mentioned, the regular name used by many may not be their birth certificate names.