Wife and Daughter travel to UK - Different Surnames?

[sevendust12]

Hi All,

My wife and daughter's settlement visa got approved recently and will be travelling to the UK next week. I won't be travelling with them.

Since their surnames are different, would this cause any problems? My daughter has my surname, wife kept her pre-marriage surname.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks all.

[bathanza]

Ask your wife to take birth certificate with her. A copy of your passport would be good too.

[vinny]

Your surname doesn't match your child's? Good luck at border control.

[sevendust12]

Your surname doesn't match your child's? Good luck at border control.

My wife has my daughter's birth certificate which highlights both of our names. She also has a a copy of my passport. Also on my daughter's passport, it includes my wife's surname.

[seagul]

Its an highly common dilemma because a lot of partners donot change their previous surname with new married surname because a lot of previously gained documents will need to be updated with new surname which many times takes considerable time & cost. And also its not mandatory to adopt new married name and all these must be known to airport staff/caseworker/Ho. Simply demonstrating child birth certificate, marriage certificate, other partner passport copy should be suffice.

[sevendust12]

Its an highly common dilemma because a lot of partners donot change their previous surname with new married surname because a lot of previously gained documents will need to be updated with new surname which many times takes considerable time & cost. And also its not mandatory to adopt new married name and all these must be known to airport staff/caseworker/Ho. Simply demonstrating child birth certificate, marriage certificate, other partner passport copy should be suffice.

Hi Seagul,

Thank you. Yes she has all those documents with her, hoping everything will go smoothly.