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She does as her boss has said he will keep her job open for three months. It was my wife's only reason to return back in 2015.

That's a relief for many people. Why they didn't clarify it sooner is beyond me.

I don't think they did until we were allowed to upload all of the information digitally. They seem to allow far more than they did.

My wife was lucky. Less than a two week wait for her citizenship ceremony. It was a big surprise that she was given her first passport so quickly as the surname in her Thai passport didn't match her citizenship certificate.

Turn the TV off and go out and do something!

Not that expensive. My local is charging £11.99 for 2 courses of Christmas dinner. Third course is £3.00. Their food is very good. I've eaten many steaks in their and the landlord is the chef.

You are going to the wrong pub!

The general rule in the UK is that the names must be the same but there are quite a few reasons why some from other countries can't. They treated my wife's case as an exception. It's all on here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/names-aligning-names-on-foreign-documents/names-aligning-names-on-foreign-documents-accessible#When_observations_cause I was worried my wife was going to have problems getting a UK passport at all without having to travel to Thailand to change her name. In my research the Thai Embassy came up trumps. It's possible to change the details on a tabian baan (sp) without going to Thailand. It took almost a week before they replied but you need to give a member of your family or friend, power of attorney and they can do it for you.

Around £10 in West London. Her citizenship took 15 weeks and her UK passport took ten days.

What recently surprised me was that my wife's only name change from almost years ago was actually printed on her UK citizenship certificate. When she divorced she changed her surname back to her family (maiden) name and changed her first name at the same time.

I'm pretty certain it was Teresa May who came up with the matching names requirement when she was the Home Secretary and I'm not sure that it works both ways. ie. It's a UK requirement, not a Thai requirement.

Same here. It took a grovelling letter to the Passport Office in London as my wife's Thai passport was in her maiden name but they simply added an observation page to her shiny new British passport. I was amazed to see it arrive in 10 days so I had a bit of pressure from the missus to book somewhere so she could use it for the first time. It is possible but I explained to the pp office that my wife would change her name the next time she or we go to Thailand. She did try in 2019 but found she needed our marriage certificate and a translation while she was in Thailand. The annoying thing for us was we submitted my wife's citizenship in her maiden name so her two passports would have matching surnames and part way through the process the HO called and offered to change her citizenship certificate to her married name. All done and dusted now thank goodness.

I mistyped my name when I booking a flight to Portugal with BA just over a week ago. How I missed it, I don't know but I did. I called BA and they fixed it but it took 24 hours to show on the updated booking. The typo still hadn’t gone on the car hire and hotel booking though but there was no problem with either of them.

Thank you. It's far less complicated than any other visa. The stumbling block on it is the two referees that are required.

According to my wife's application you do. After you have completed the questions you will receive a checklist of the requirements you need to provide. The following is one of them that they requested from my wife that we submitted to UKVCAS for her citizenship today. "Proof of living in the UK for Mrs PK for 5 years if applying in your own right or 3 years if applying as the spouse of a British Citizen." We provided a couple of letters from my wife's bank and our joint account, council tax bills for three years and a whole bunch of Covid test results that we provided to the Office of National Statistics over three years. They allowed the latter for ILR too as we took the tests at home together over Covid and beyond. There was no need for any financial information.

My Thai Missus turned 45 a couple of days ago. She is a shade over 5 feet and her weight is around 8 stone plus or minus a single kilo. Her eight never varies more than a kilo. We don't eat bread, red meat, or fast food or fizzy drinks. I still enjoy an occasional steak if we eat out. She goes veggy for a few weeks every few months. She is always doing stretching exercises, we also walk a lot and it works for her. Not so much for me!

I'm unable to find it at the moment. I'm hoping one of the professional who know about this can confirm it. I will look further later when we have finished work.

I'm not sure how long ago your wife got her UK passport but the rules were changed a while back and my wife's new passport, (assuming she gets citizenship, of course), will be in her maiden name. So both of her passports will be in her maiden name and she would like them in her married name. They no longer allow a Thai and British passport to have different names. It would have been good to get them changed but it's not a huge problem.

So there is no way that a family member get the necessary change in the Tabien Baan? My wife had her latest Thai ID card supplied by the Embassy in London. It's very frustrating.

If I have put this in the wrong forum please move it. My wife's Thai passport is still in her maiden name and we have always wanted to get it changed to her married name. I can see problems further down the line if we don't get it changed before we apply for her first UK passport after citizenship which will be going in on the 18th May. Can anybody let me know if it's to change her name without being in Thailand and what's involved? Thanks.

No. I am happy to do it myself.

Thanks. She has no entry stamps in her latest passport that was renewed in 2020. I will take her previous passport with us to UKVCAS and upload scans of the stamps. Having said that she only has a single entry into the UK in the last five years and that was returning from a two week holiday to Thailand.

My wife has finally made it to the citizenship stage and I have a query about the proof of living in the UK over the last three years. "Proof of living in the UK for Mrs PK for 5 years if applying in your own right or 3 years if applying as the spouse of a British Citizen" is what it says on the checklist. It's a bit vague (unlike the previous criteria for her other visas) and I've come up with very little about what is actually required and what I can use. I have annual council tax bills with my wife's name on. Bank statements and also a whole host of Covid test results from the ONS that we have been having since October 2020 where they visited every month. (They were fine for ILR.) Does anybody know what else is required please? TIA.