My maiden name is in my child's passport, is this a mistake or intentional?
I received my daughter's passport yesterday and in it are the particulars of her parents (myself and my husband). All the details are correct, except my surname is my maiden surname, which is no longer my legal name, it was changed to my married name 7 years before she was born. The field does say "maiden/surname" for both father and mother. My daughter's birth certificate has my married name.
This is a South African passport and the Home Affairs office is notorious for both being uncontactable and for making mistakes. I haven't been able to contact them to ask.
The reason why I wonder if this is a mistake is because I literally have no photo ID of my maiden name anymore and I would have to use my marriage certificate of proof of this name change. It seems very strange to use my maiden name when it isn't my legal name anymore, and literally all of my ID (issued by them) have used my married name for years.
I am planning on travelling and applying for visas soon, and I'm concerned this is going to be an additional paperwork burden. If this is a mistake, I would like to go through the process of getting it corrected so that it matches my legal name, but I don't know if it's worth the effort.
I understand that no one here can really say definitively if this is intentional or not (Home Affairs themselves doesn't know what's going on!), but perhaps there is some kind of standard that specifies maiden names should be used and immigration control is used to seeing this kind of thing? Is it? Or is this very obviously a mistake?
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