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Travelling with passport in maiden name...
Hi guys
We are going to book a holiday abroad next year. My wife has her passport in her maiden name still (married last year) and it has 6 years till it expires.
Under the heading 'cut your costs' on this link
It says:
"To change the name on your passport, you have to renew it, which costs £72.50. However, it is legal for you to use a passport in your previous name until it expires. Just remember the name on any airline tickets must match the name on your passport or you may not be allowed to travel."
Is that right does anyone know??
We are going to book a holiday abroad next year. My wife has her passport in her maiden name still (married last year) and it has 6 years till it expires.
Under the heading 'cut your costs' on this link
It says:
"To change the name on your passport, you have to renew it, which costs £72.50. However, it is legal for you to use a passport in your previous name until it expires. Just remember the name on any airline tickets must match the name on your passport or you may not be allowed to travel."
Is that right does anyone know??
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Your passport doesnt say Mrs or Ms either.
If the tickets are booked in her married name, just call up and get them changed
Before the days of high security you could get away with a copy of your marriage cert as proof but not any more.
Yes, that's exactly right. My married niece (who's passport is still in her maiden name) has just been to Majorca. Providing the ticket and passport are both in the same name there's no problem.
If you called the airline to have the name changed, it's dollars to doughnuts that you'd be hit with a hefty "admin" charge.
On a slightly related topic, I went to the U.S. with my then girlfriend in the late 70s.
Incredibly, the travel agent said that some hotels in the U.S. were a bit hinky about un-married couples sharing a room, and we should say that we were on honeymoon and hadn't had my "wife's" name changed in her passport yet.
However, as has been confirmed above, passport and ticket names must match, that's what matters on check-in.
If someone then plans to hire cars and present a driving licence in a different name to the passport (for eg) then there may be difficulties but not for flights in the circumstances outlined.
If you have booked find out the cost of changing details and weigh that up against the £72 cost of changing it on the passport.
Don't attempt to get to the airport with tickets in one name and passport in another as that will be even more costly for you.
When we got married we raised the question of booking in the married name and taking the marriage certificate as evidence but was told that it was extremely unlikely we would be allowed to use that.
We had a few long weekends away with my parents and my dad kept booking in her married name, so we just bought along her marriage certificate to show. We were never questioned accept when going to Prauge.