Hi all

My G/F and I are having a religious wedding ceremony shortly in Thailand and then intend to marry in UK in the summer of this year. Hope to have Fiancee visa shortly.

When we marry in the UK later this year her name will change and it will be different to the one on her Thai passport and ID, when we apply to the Home Office for the extension to her stay (after the initial 6 months in the UK) does her passport name get changed here in the UK ? Will the Home Office accept the extension of stay application with her maiden name on her passport ?

Thank you

Regards

Clive Sorts

Easier to let her keep her Thai maiden name in her Thai passport and assuming all goes well and she gets Brit/Euro PP in 3-4 years time then register in married name.

You will have to go through the process of a Fiancee-extention and indefinate Visas anyway and they will all be in her origonal...so..

Dont forget the religious "do"is only for show and to make it legal you gotta see the wee man/lady with the big book in the local register Office otherwise.... you aint......

Also if your future wife has property -businesses etc in LOS sticking to their first name makes things so so much ..easier.

The law regarding married women (to the likes of uz)owning land etc.changed a few years ago but you find a lot a still a bit worried and unsure......takes time.....chok dee na krup

Just take her current passport with you when you go to Croydon (or whatever immigration office you have to go to in the UK). If she changes her surname in line with you being married, then it will have an endorsement in it to show that. (And they might even take not changing her name to yours as being suspicious)

My wife got her ILR 5 years ago, but she's still on the same Thai passport with the endorsement on the second page showing the change in surname since the passport got extended rather than get a new one.

Admittedly, we got married in Thailand - less hassle for my relatives to attend the wedding here, I dread to think the hassles we'd have had trying to get my wife's relatives to a wedding in the UK. (The reception was a LOT cheaper too...)

Just take her current passport with you when you go to Croydon (or whatever immigration office you have to go to in the UK). If she changes her surname in line with you being married, then it will have an endorsement in it to show that. (And they might even take not changing her name to yours as being suspicious)

My wife got her ILR 5 years ago, but she's still on the same Thai passport with the endorsement on the second page showing the change in surname since the passport got extended rather than get a new one.

Admittedly, we got married in Thailand

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Our situation (and dates) is pretty much the same, but my wife didn't bother with the change of name endorsement until she extended it. It was only on her next trip to Thailand that she got round to (a) telling her local amphoe (in Chiangmai) we'd married (in Bangkok) and ( getting an ID card in her married name.

You don't normally need to make a personal visit to Croydon etc.; my wife got her ILR by post and had her passport back within a couple of weeks.

This morning my wife got her passport back after having it endorsed with her new British surname, in all it took weeks and that included waiting for the application form from Thai embassy in London then sending all the required documents back so the endorsement can take place.

On her current visa it still has her Thai surname on it, but I spoke to woman at immigration and she said it did'nt matter if her Thai surname was different to the one in the passport photo because immigration can clearly see that we have had it endorsed and that we r married.

Thanks Guys

That seems pretty much straight forward, we will get the passport endorsed later in the UK.

Once the British Embassy accepts to give a Fiancee visa does anyone know how long after that date that the visa can be collected ?

Thank you

Regards

Clive sorts

Hi Clive,

If granted, the visa will be issued on the day of the interview unless this is late in the afternoon when you may be asked to return the following day for collection.

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