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bobbybland2
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 Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 7:41 pm Post subject: Maiden or married name on russian airline tickets? |
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I am booking tickets for me and my wife, who is a Russian Citizen. Her internal russial passport has her maiden name. Her external passport has her maiden name on the photo page, and a stamp on a differnt page with her married name. Will this cause problems if the tickets are book in her married name? Or should I use the maiden name?
These tickets are for flight from Moscow to Ulan Ude. Has anyone ever encountered this situation? |
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Daria
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| Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject: Re: Maiden or married name on russian airline tickets? |
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| bobbybland2 wrote: | I am booking tickets for me and my wife, who is a Russian Citizen. Her internal russial passport has her maiden name. Her external passport has her maiden name on the photo page, and a stamp on a differnt page with her married name. Will this cause problems if the tickets are book in her married name? Or should I use the maiden name?
These tickets are for flight from Moscow to Ulan Ude. Has anyone ever encountered this situation? |
How is it possible? I had to change all of my documents. |
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Daria
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| Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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The name on the ticket should be the one that is on the document she is traveling with.
I changed my last name here in Canada. Had to get a " Change of name cerificate", have it translated, notarized, legalized by Russian Consulate in Canada, stamped by Foreigh affairs office in Ottawa...then I took it to OVIR office in Russia to be exchanged for the new one. It took me like six months to have it sorted out, never mind amount of $$$ |
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bobbybland2
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That is one of the purposes of our trip - she has to get a new internal passport - but since this cannot be handled by mail, the internal passport has to be updated in person I guess. So for now, her foreign passport is different - its all way too complicated if you ask me! 
We ended up booking tickets in her married name, and will just bring all the paperwork we have (marriage license, etc.) and hope we don't run into any problems. |
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Daria
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| bobbybland2 wrote: | That is one of the purposes of our trip - she has to get a new internal passport - but since this cannot be handled by mail, the internal passport has to be updated in person I guess. So for now, her foreign passport is different - its all way too complicated if you ask me!
We ended up booking tickets in her married name, and will just bring all the paperwork we have (marriage license, etc.) and hope we don't run into any problems. |
Don't forget that a " Change of name certificate" as well as a " marriage certificate" have to be " Legalized " by a Russian Consulate in order to be admissible in Russia ( recognizable by a Russian government). They were also asking me for my "Propiska". |
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wavetossed
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:40 pm Post subject: Re: Maiden or married name on russian airline tickets? |
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| bobbybland2 wrote: | I am booking tickets for me and my wife, who is a Russian Citizen. Her internal russial passport has her maiden name. Her external passport has her maiden name on the photo page, and a stamp on a differnt page with her married name. Will this cause problems if the tickets are book in her married name? Or should I use the maiden name?
These tickets are for flight from Moscow to Ulan Ude. Has anyone ever encountered this situation? |
For an international flight, they will look at the international passport, so international plane tickets should match the name in the international passport. But for a domestic flight or domestic train trip, they will check the domestic passport so the name should match the domestic passport.
Of course, you can probably explain away the difference since you do have an official document with both names, but it is easier to avoid the questions. |
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missbehaving
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If you are flying say from Canada to Russia then she would HAVE to book the ticket on her maiden name because at the wirport they'll check her visa to russia (which she wouldn't have in her canadian (say) passport), the same on the way back. However people did it both ways and if you do book iton her married name then you just have to take marriage certificate with you and maybe translate it in russia (and certify which is done in the same place where you translate it) for the way back.
I really don't know how people change their russian passports for their married name, it's too much hassle, it's easier to live with 2 different names (although you'd have complications if you travel to or from russia from/to the 3rd country). It's stupid rules, you have to exchange your internal russian p[assport in russia only and it takes 30 days, nobody else can apply or get the new passport back except you. so effectively it means you have to wait in russia for 30 days. + time that you then spend making a new external russian passport. |
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