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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.