Marriage Visa - Quick Question

[Ramsay]

I am getting married in a few weeks with my lass being on a fiancee visa issued on a Nepal Travel Doc. The good lady wants to take my surname.

Do I need to get the name on the travel doc changed to our married name before applying for the visa?

[jimmymcad]

No harm in doing so.

[Ramsay]

I was more wondering if it is obligatory to change the passport first. Getting a new travel doc out of the Nepali embassy with only four months left on the Fiancee visa may be a bit of a 'Challenge Aneka' type mission.

Cheers

[Enquirer77]

Ramsay,

No, you shouldn't change her name to your married name on the travel document, visa or passport before marriage.

If your fiancée is arriving in the UK for the first time on a Fiancée Visa, her name on that visa will be her maiden name. Even after you are married and you apply for a 2-year spouse visa, that visa will be attached to her passport which will still be in her maiden name.

If you try to book air tickets or travel through airports, the name on those tickets needs to be the same as the name on her passport.