I eventually phoned up (prior to these responses) and got a direct response from someone in the Home Office Immigration Department. I can't verify that their advice is 100% correct because even people who are paid to give advice and who should know the answers sometimes give incorrect advice. I disa...

I already have read the guidance notes [hence included quotations from them] and as such I wouldn't waste my time posting to this forum if I felt the guidance notes were not ambiguous and transparent. The guidance given for the date of birth simply relates to the format of the date of birth ie 03 01...

BACKGROUND INFO: I am a UK subject/citizen and my wife is applying for ILR. We were married before she came over on her current 2 year Further Leave To Remain visa. My wife's passport is still in her unmarried name and that was the name she had to use when she sat the Life In The UK Test. GUIDANCE R...