<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(walesrob @ Apr 11 2006, 01:06 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>
Hi, and welcome to the forum.
There is no need to change the name on your passport until its renewal BUT, change it now anyway, for the following reasons:
1) Your application for a Spouse Visa (or Settlement Visa as you call it) will be easier.
2) It's a quick process from what I've been told - go to the DFA in your local area with your existing passport, your birth certificate and your marraige certificate, both on SECPA paper, and they will change it in just a few days (using the Express method - pay an extra fee for faster processing). Maybe someone else can tell us the exact procedure, as I may have skipped something.
Hope this helps - post back if you need any further information.
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Just to say that my wife did not change her passport to apply for spouse visa - no significant delay detected at the embassy in Manila
Now in the UK (for two years) she has not changed her passport and probably wont - we have been to PI once on holiday and once to Europe using her original passport
After three years here she will apply for a British Passport and at that point will ask for it to be issued in her married name
so far we have had no problems - anyone done the same?
