The General Chat Thread (2023)

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TastyReuben said:
Heathrow, as much as I love going to the UK, does annoy the 💩 out of me. If it were anywhere other than the UK, I probably wouldn’t like it at all. Every time we use that airport, I like it a little less.
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Heathrow is a mess, and they are going to expand it again, on a completely unsuitable site. Boris Johnson is wrong in every way, but he did have the idea of building an entirely new hub airport on an island in the Thames Estury, Hong Kong style. It actually made perfect sense but was deemed too expensive, so now, instead they are spending £75 Billion on a train track to get from London to Birmingham 10 minutes quicker.
 
Yorky said:
They had a computer crash and 150 or so Ex Pat's current passport details were lost. Mine was one of them. Three? The boss, the driver and the photographer.
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I wondered where the 3rd one was. And also why immigration police wouldn't mind being photographed...because they had their own photographer! Who knew.
 
kaneohegirlinaz said:
I let my passport expire many years ago.
Now we need to have Travel ID
What an ordeal!
DH using his "confirmation name" as his middle name, which is NOT on his birth certificate... we had to petition the State of Pennsylvania to change his name first... PITA!
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When my passport was renewed, the office spelt my middle name wrongly. I told them (Liverpool HMPO) in early March 2022. They finally agreed to replace it and it was printed December 30th 2022. It was then sent to Bangkok office (450 km away) where it still sits, waiting for me to collect it. They refuse to courier it to me.
 
kaneohegirlinaz said:
I let my passport expire many years ago.
Now we need to have Travel ID
What an ordeal!
DH using his "confirmation name" as his middle name, which is NOT on his birth certificate... we had to petition the State of Pennsylvania to change his name first... PITA!
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I have similar issues. My birth certificate is in my first surname, my marriage certificate is in another name, marrying to a third name.. I've nothing that links my birth certificate to my "unmarried" family name except for a single line that has been struck through in my very first UK passport that states simply "child also known as *****". Luckily I never threw that first passport away because without it I would not have got an Australian passport.

Because of that we know I can not under any circumstances allow either passport to expire. Renewing is much easier than applying for a new one and if I lose that original UK passport, I can't prove my names at all. (There was no legal requirement in the UK for my name to be changed to that of my mother's 2nd husband. It was changed by common usage, nothing more otherwise he would have had to legally adopt us which would have meant losing child support payments from my real father). My brother was able to return to his birth name without too many issues, but both of us have issues proving our academic history because those certificates are all in the 2nd unadopted name.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
I have similar issues. My birth certificate is in my first surname, my marriage certificate is in another name, marrying to a third name.. I've nothing that links my birth certificate to my "unmarried" family name except for a single line that has been struck through in my very first UK passport that states simply "child also known as *****". Luckily I never threw that first passport away because without it I would not have got an Australian passport.

Because of that we know I can not under any circumstances allow either passport to expire. Renewing is much easier than applying for a new one and if I lose that original UK passport, I can't prove my names at all. (There was no legal requirement in the UK for my name to be changed to that of my mother's 2nd husband. It was changed by common usage, nothing more otherwise he would have had to legally adopt us which would have meant losing child support payments from my real father). My brother was able to return to his birth name without too many issues, but both of us have issues proving our academic history because those certificates are all in the 2nd unadopted name.
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The guy that did my books for years had this name. .Michael john joseph Patrick eugene Hughes. I wonder if he had a passport?

Russ
 
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rascal said:
The guy that did my books for years had this name. .Michael john joseph Patrick eugene Hughes. I wonder if he had a passport?

Russ
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If he has that on his birth certificate then he'll be fine. The more names you have the easier it is to identify you and so on...

My hubby applied for his Aussie passport at the same time as I did. Despite the issues of my name, and despite the problems the lady at the post office thought we'd have getting my passport, mine was done in 6 weeks. Tracing 1 pertain with 3 names is much easier than one person with only 1 common first name, no middle name and a common family name. His passport took 7-8 months to arrive so we now have totally seperate dates for the Australian passports and driving license, but the same date of the UK passport and driving licenses (saves postage to do then together because it has to be sent to the UK and returned to us here).
 
JAS_OH1 said:
I kept my maiden name and it's a very common one. There are probably 100s of people with my name, lol.
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Grandkids were asking me about our roots. I showed them the tree above our kitchen table.
See below

Russ
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