Hi Nairalanders,
i went to the embassy to apply for a new passport with my married name and now they are telling me i only need an observation in my passport because i have an E-Passport and the passport they are issuing in the embassy at present is the old passport.

i honestly do need a complete new passport with my married name not observation and i still have my old passport,i dont know if i should go with the old passport tomorrow and only show that to them cos i know the will issue me a new one if i show them the old passport cos its a posted one but what if they discover i also have an e-passport,what will i tell ,
i was thinking of telling them its destroyed cos if i say its stolen i will need a police report ,which is a long process,
please ur advice is need.

cos i know this passport observation of a thing will affect my documents in the future,please any advice?

isn't the idea of an E-passport is to collect your fingerprint? if you go there and tell them you want a new E-passport, your info will surely pop up when they get your fingerprint again, so don't even try that

yes i know but if they see that my passport is destroyed they will have to issue a new one and beside my epassport is with my single name not my married name and i have changed my name to my married name ,so i cant have my documents with different names.

sayhi2ay:

isn't the idea of an E-passport is to collect your fingerprint? if you go there and tell them you want a new E-passport, your info will surely pop up when they get your fingerprint again, so don't even try that

Precisely. The observation in your e-passport should do really. I had same in my MRP and was fine. The specificity of the e-passport is such that once data is captured on the chip it cannot be updated until the  passport outlives it's span and a new chip is loaded.

Is it not better for you to travel to naija with ur old passport and secure a new one in naija,its much better than this europe one en stress free too. i did mine in 2days.

Evept, dont complicate ur issues by going for another fresh PP, an observation will fix it, thats all u need do. Once the observation page is observed, , u can start using ur new names. If u wanna go for a new passport pls dont tell a lie about the recent one cos' ur finger print will pull u out with ur gazing pic.