Just in case it will be helpful to somebody Bill introduced to allow dual citizenship for Indians as of 18/07/2019. Not sure how it will affect changing names.

This post might benefit to EU citizens with British Citizenship who can't change their name(s) in a previous country of citizenship, or might not want to do so because of any reason(s). The reason I applied for UK passport were concerns about how to prove to UKBA post-Brexit (transition period) that...

I think it's time to go to your MP for help? Good luck. Would be interested in your updates I think it's a good idea to contact my MP, but beforehand I would like to collect all the facts. I asked my case worker and HMPO's complaints team four times in total why observation page can't be used for d...

You should chill down a little. UK HO case workers are not fools as you are trying to make out to be. They probably are over cautious but if you think they should follow the rules and systems of 193 countries in the world, you are preposterous. Remember you are not the only Russian who has this pro...

Hi, same issue here with dual national (Russian passport) - PO refuses an observation of married name. I think you can legally change your name in Motherland - you have to change your birth certificate while you are there, then your internal passport, then apply for a new international passport (fr...

I've been told today by Home Office that I have two identities because my Russian external passport does not translate my Patronymic name, whilst other EU passport has it present. This is absolute bonkers! How can people who been entrusted with dealing with applications for non-UK born British citiz...

can you please kindly change my flag to the UK? Thank you ever so much for your help

just a small update (if anybody interested), Peterborough Office ignored by request for observation-route page for the second time, and pushing for changing name(s) on other passports and I quote " if the issuing authority advises that the amendment can only be completed by returning to the cou...

I've been reading this forum for a while as it's packed with stacks of useful information, and I thought I'll share my experience of recently applying for a British passport. In my case it might be more complicated as after naturalising in December, I changed my first names and my surname (to match ...