Renewing your passport after divorce

[oldfatandtired1]

I divorced 4 years ago and didn’t get round to changing my name on my passport (it’s in my married name and I now use my birth name). My passport expires next May and I want to renew it now in my birth name.

I’ve been on the website and frankly am confused as what I need to send! I think a ‘paper’ application would be easiest? Do I need my absolute, marriage certificate, birth certificate?

Anyone else done this recently?

Thanks in advance

www.gov.uk/changing-passport-information/divorce-or-returning-to-a-previous-surname this tells you what you need to send

It's cheaper to apply online. you then send the required documents and your old passport to the address they give you

Thank you dementedpixie I’ll give it a go!

Reminds me of the last time I changed mine - again.......a lesson in why women shouldn’t feel obligated to change surname on marrying! I had to use an extra sheet of paper to explain and include
Birth certificate
Marriage certificate number one
Divorce papers for above
Deed poll (which the bank insisted on then apologised for their mistake)
Wedding certificate no two
Divorce papers for above
Letter renouncing surname.

I’ve warned DP if we ever decide to marry don’t expect me to change my name (I admit it sounded bad - 2 divorces by the age of 42 but they were the only blokes I’d ever had a date with, and both were long termers)

Foslady I tell everyone not to change their name upon marriage, it really has been a pain getting everything back to my maiden name! Hence only getting round to the passport now. My sons will both probably marry in the next couple of years - I tell their girlfriends not to become Mrs his name!. The girls are lovely and I’ll be very happy if and when they do marry - but if, God forbid, things go wrong in the future it’s one less thing to worry about.

I’m still having issues getting my name changed on my work pension, even though work happily changed my name on payroll on my request at separation . . .

It's so weird that it's super easy to change your name on marriage with just a marriage certificate but it's super complicated to go back to the name on your birth certificate.

Absolutely. I don’t remember any issues on becoming Mrs ‘his name’. Although I married in 1989 so maybe my memory’s going! It’s very liberating going back to your birth name - I don’t know why I changed, ‘my’ name is so much nicer than his boring one anyway. And don’t get me started on Mrs/Miss/Ms . . .