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.
Home office change of name policy. 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. 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 4 of 10 published for home office staff on 28 january 2019 policy rationale the vast majority of people living in the uk change their names on official documents issued by the home office for perfectly legitimate reasons such as when. Use and change of names introduction.