Adfernos Took your advice and asked my embassy again. They acceded finally BUT 1) they refused to confirm ‘name cannot be changed’ Instead 2) they confirmed it as GIVEN NAME: Chinese name, first name Surname: last name Anyone think it is going to be an issue with 1) HO / HMPO specifically asked for...

Adfernos Took your advice and asked my embassy again. They acceded finally BUT 1) they refused to confirm ‘name cannot be changed’ Instead 2) they confirmed it as GIVEN NAME: Chinese name, first name Surname: last name Anyone think it is going to be an issue with 1) HO / HMPO specifically asked for ...

Hi Ribena. In my foreign passport, Last name first name 1, first name 2. There is a comma between my 2 first names in the foreign passport and HOme office says the commas depict segregation between the first and last names. HO insists they will read the surname as last name first name 1, and the fir...

Thanks Ozexpat.

Reading the threads now!

How are you dealing with your situation now / what did the passport office advised you to do?

Adinfernos and ThsThs, Thank you for your suggestions, I I was rather appalled at the lack of understanding as well and that they even refused to issue the naturalisation certificate. It was not as if there were any missing names or names of different spelling. and surely, I am not unique in having ...

I applied for both naturalisation and uk passport via NCS more than a month ago I received a call from home office today informing me that they cannot issue my naturalisation certificate and also will not send my uk passport application for processing because the name in my foreign passport is difff...