What are the grounds for refusing to change a name on a home office issued document.
Home office change of name. British passports including emergency travel documents and emergency passports. The home office has published new guidance on the problematic area of change of name and identity documents. Change your marital status divorce marry or form a civil partnership but keep your name change your title for example doctor or professor become a national of another country as well as the uk. Home office change of name guidance.
The home office will not normally issue a document in a new name where a person has secured an entitlement to the document using a fraudulent identity. Travel documents biometric residence permits brps. Report a change of address personal details or circumstances if you have a visa or biometric residence permit brp or if you ve applied for one. The home office which includes hm passport office has a policy on names on home office documents that is on.
Births deaths marriages and care. Where the home office has accepted a request to change a name on a home office document the law enforcement records may be updated to reflect the new name and the link to the old name. Page 3 of 10 published for home office staff on 28 january 2019 about this guidance this document sets out the home office s approach to a request for a change of name on official documents such as the british passport home office travel. Certificates register offices changes of name or gender.
A succinct concise document setting out the home office policy on applications to changes of names and identity for passport applications travel documents visa s residency permits including eu residency documents and certificates of right of abode. This document contains guidance about how the home office handles applications to change names on official documents it issues such as british passports home office travel documents hodt.