Boy am I mad.
With all the much-publicised amendments to the electoral register and encouragement to check that you're on. I logged onto the website to check and see was I on the register.
I've been registered since I was 18 and everytime I moved house, I changed it accordingly, so have been registered at my current address for the past 4 years.
Imagine my surprise when I checked the register and couldn't find my name registered to my address! So I checked my husband's name and his was fine. We were married during the summer, so he suggested that I check under my married name on the off chance.
Lo and behold my surname came up as that of my husband.
Now just to clarify, we never received a call to the door and nobody ever verified that I intended to take my husband's name. Eventually I do plan on doing so, but at present I don't even have a copy of the marriage certificate & use my maiden name for most official things.
The fact is that I don't even have any form of identification in my married name & somehow the register has been changed without my permission.
Does anybody know is the only way I can now get my name changed back is to show proof of my maiden name. If so, I will have to get a copy of the marriage cert to them then because there is no other document with evidence of my maiden & my husband's surname?
With all the much-publicised amendments to the electoral register and encouragement to check that you're on. I logged onto the website to check and see was I on the register.
I've been registered since I was 18 and everytime I moved house, I changed it accordingly, so have been registered at my current address for the past 4 years.
Imagine my surprise when I checked the register and couldn't find my name registered to my address! So I checked my husband's name and his was fine. We were married during the summer, so he suggested that I check under my married name on the off chance.
Lo and behold my surname came up as that of my husband.
Now just to clarify, we never received a call to the door and nobody ever verified that I intended to take my husband's name. Eventually I do plan on doing so, but at present I don't even have a copy of the marriage certificate & use my maiden name for most official things.
The fact is that I don't even have any form of identification in my married name & somehow the register has been changed without my permission.
Does anybody know is the only way I can now get my name changed back is to show proof of my maiden name. If so, I will have to get a copy of the marriage cert to them then because there is no other document with evidence of my maiden & my husband's surname?