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Some members (including me) have faced challenges in this area due to a recent policy change.Racye14 wrote:Hello. I would be very grateful if someone can help me or have experienced my problem. I will be having my ceremony soon and will apply for British passport. The HO stated in the approval letter that I have to change my old passport surname into my husbands as that is the name I have and now using. The thing is that the passport I have and seen by HO is one issued after I got married and has my husband's surname in it. It is formatted: maiden first name + maiden surname + ep + hubby's surname. The "ep" stands for spouse of. Do you think I should be able to push straight for maiden first name + hubby surname or have to find close to £1000 to go back home and get passport changed? Thank you !
The problem is HMPO policy is out of kilter with HO naturalisation policy.Marii wrote:You will have to change your home passport first or insist Home Office to change name in you naturalisation certificat. It may be easier before your citizenship ceremony?
Yes, they do now work under general rules. I looked in naturalisation guide in section 1 "personal information" 1.7 :noajthan wrote:The problem is HMPO policy is out of kilter with HO naturalisation policy.Marii wrote:You will have to change your home passport first or insist Home Office to change name in you naturalisation certificat. It may be easier before your citizenship ceremony?
So HO will happily naturalise in married name when given a passport in maiden name.
There was no mistake so nothing to correct.
The problem is HMPO seem to assume its always easy to change/update a foreign passport.
There is another way, see here:
http://www.immigrationboards.com/britis ... n#p1225431
ok, good that some guidance has finally been updated then.Marii wrote:Yes, they do now work under general rules. I looked in naturalisation guide in section 1 "personal information" 1.7 :
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Guide dates July 2015, but new policy of Name Change introduced from 17 April 2015. Seems department who issues naturalisation certificats wasn't aware of these rules before. Therefore this is their mistake.