UK British Citizen and Dual Nationality Help Please

[joebloggs]

i said you cannot change the name on your citizenship certficate, i didn't same you can't change your name by deed poll

[Jimbo]

My wife is currently applying for British Citizenship and will then apply for a British Passport.

I think there may be some aspect of her potential Dual Nationality that I do not fully understand. Yes I know of the requirement (?) to notify the Philippine Embassy and I believe she will then need a new Philippine Passport. Is that correct?

My question is what is to prevent her maintaining her current Philippine passport in addition to a British passport? At least until it is due for renewal. In the Philippines she would then have Philippine Nationality and elsewhere she could by choice be a British National.

[johncar54]

I said you cannot change the name on your [/COLOR]citizenship certificate, I didn't say you can't change your name by deed poll

I don't want to be picky but one does not change their name byDeed Poll.

Deed Poll is the registration that they have changed their name.

Having changed ones name, one may choose to register the change, doing so, or not doing so, does not make it 'more or less legal.'