Do I have to change my passport into my married name?

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Can I just leave it till it comes up for renewal, & if anyone asks, say I still use my single name? Assuming i got dh to book all flights etc on his credit card?

I'm too tight to pay for a new pp if I don't have to - it'll probably only be used a few times before it expires in 2010.

I didn't change mine and I have no intentions of doing so. I have been married 15 years.

Think it is fine as long as you are very very careful whenever you book a holiday.

Also don't forget a passport is often required as an official form of identity and it could be a PITA if in the wrong name

You can leave it, but be really really careful when booking flights etc, it's really confusing having lots of different ID's

Did you change your name though bvdc?

Thanks, that's what I wanted to know.

Honestly don't see why we can't travel as (say) Mr Jones, Ms Smith & two small Joneses. Except all my credit cards etc are in the name Mrs Jones - but that's not really passport control's problem. We're only going to stay with mates in France!

Thanks again.

You don't have to but as everyone else says, be very, very careful about booking flights as they will charge you ££, and sometimes £££, to change the name on the tickets if you get it wrong. Could work out way more expensive than a new passport.

I read recently about someone who was charged about £30 to change the name on a ticket and then a further £150 or so as the ticket price had gone up since she had bought it and she had to pay the difference. If all your other id is going to be in your married name then I'd just change it too.

Well, no big deal for dh to book tickets for his 'dp'? Surely genuinely unmarried couples do it all the time?

I'll change it when it needs renewing, but I'm rather put off doing it before by having to pay the whole renewal/new passport amount.

If it was a token admin charge, fair enough.

No, your passport could be in the name of Lord Lucan as far as the airline care as long as the photo and the name on your ticket match!

Not the photo and the name on your ticket... you know what I mean.

I almost screwed up when booking our honeymoon flights online with Ryanair - put the flights in my married name on the way out and my maiden name on the way back. Idiot!

Luckily I phoned up straight away and got a very sympathetic person in their call centre who managed to get it changed for free - mind you, the call probably cost me a tenner!

I did the same, travelled in my maiden name until it was due for renewal the following year. Come to think of it we were so broke after the wedding we didn't go anywhere abroad!

Only problem I can see is if you are trying to leave the country with kids and their surname is not the same as yours. Do their birth certificates show your name as your maiden name or your married name?