Passport questions

[CoffeeLover90]

Hi, this is a 2 parter, appreciate any help as I can't find the answers online.

As a child my mum used my stepdads surname for me. No deedpoll or anything involved. I had a passport issued in this name, when I was 12 so 20 years ago now.
Neither of us have this passport and my mum moved from that address around 10 years ago.
Will this cause any issues as I now use my birth name. My national insurance card was issued in my birth name and I've nothing in my previous apart from school, medical records and the lost passport.

Secondly my child does not have father on birth certificate, has no contact but I'd gave him dad's surname on birth certificate. Recently changed by deedpoll to my surname. Again wondering if this will cause issues as hotel and flights booked in his new name?

Do you have your passports yet, I'm guessing not. The child's one will be fine as you'll send the deed poll with his application.

Yours should be OK if your NI number, driving license, bank is in the correct name, tbh I'd be inclined to not mention the previous passport

my mum also changed my name at 4. Only with school and doctors but it followed me in NI and drivers license. I had to deed poll my name at 25 when I was getting married as didn't want my bio dad's surname listed as it wasn't my name.

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I've got hmrc docs, provisional license etc in my birth name. I was just going to leave out the previous passport but was worried it would somehow flag, I'd be asked questions and it would all be delayed.

Don't lie by omission about the original passport. You'll have to declare previous addresses and your parents details, your own birth details on a new passport application (to establish you are actually a British Citizen entitled to a passport, particularly if you were born after 1/1/83 and so the process will be longer than replacing a lost one, with or without the name change. The records will be automatically cross-checked to see if you have been issued with a passport in the past.

If you tell them you had one, in a different name, it got lost, then if/when the details of that passport flag up, it won't be a problem because you've told them about it. There may be an issue about you reverting to a previous name, if the stepfather's surname wasn't officially registered, but that would just flag the lost passport as possibly having slipped through the net, not the new one, which you've got documented evidence for.

The child's passport will need to be in his legal name and (like any passenger) has to be the name on any flight booking (and generally accommodation)

As a single adult travelling with a minor you might be asked at the border to show a consent letter from the other parent and at that point you'd be expected to show that the father has no parental responsibility.

As a single adult travelling with a minor you might be asked at the border to show a consent letter from the other parent and at that point you'd be expected to show that the father has no parental responsibility.

This is not going to be possible at all. I have a restraining order in place due to domestic violence. He is not on the birth certificate, I didn't need his permission to change my sons name. It was my application I was most worried about but I will mention there was a previous passport.

If he isn't on the birth certificate, then he probably doesn't have parental responsibility if there is no relationship at all, but you might be asked nevertheless to demonstrate that. A restraining order against you wouldn't necessarily preclude a relationship with the child.

https://www.gov.uk/permission-take-child-abroad