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Tahirbaba

Hi to all.  I am hopping to find some help here so here goes my question.    My wife works for a govt university as a teacher in Saudi Arabia.  I have a husband visa.   Now we are planning to apply for immigration to Europe.  Her passport has her fathers name on it (we got married after she was employed in Saudi Arabia) her visa is valid. Means the job shall continue.  So if I want to change her passports name what happens about the visa on it ??? We r pakistani citizens.  Awaiting some help thanks.

msq2220

Dear
1st arrange marriage document from Pakistan with English & Arabic translation ,all document must be attested from MOFA Pakistan and Saudi Embassy from Pakistan newspaper add than you can apply  change of name in KSA.

TheLegendLeads

Tahirbaba wrote:

Hi to all.  I am hopping to find some help here so here goes my question.    My wife works for a govt university as a teacher in Saudi Arabia.  I have a husband visa.   Now we are planning to apply for immigration to Europe.  Her passport has her fathers name on it (we got married after she was employed in Saudi Arabia) her visa is valid. Means the job shall continue.  So if I want to change her passports name what happens about the visa on it ??? We r pakistani citizens.  Awaiting some help thanks.


The new passport must come with the relation changed (husband's name instead of father's name). Don't let her name change in itself. Both the passports then must be kept together for the course of the visa validity.

Tahirbaba

msq2220 wrote:

Dear
1st arrange marriage document from Pakistan with English & Arabic translation ,all document must be attested from MOFA Pakistan and Saudi Embassy from Pakistan newspaper add than you can apply  change of name in KSA.


All documents are translated and attested by mofa.  We already have iqamas.  This is also an enough prove that the saudi govt has accepted our marriage documents.  And I didn't understand what you meant by newspaper? My question is what about the visa on her passport.  ?  Thanks

Tahirbaba

TheLegendLeads wrote:
Tahirbaba wrote:

Hi to all.  I am hopping to find some help here so here goes my question.    My wife works for a govt university as a teacher in Saudi Arabia.  I have a husband visa.   Now we are planning to apply for immigration to Europe.  Her passport has her fathers name on it (we got married after she was employed in Saudi Arabia) her visa is valid. Means the job shall continue.  So if I want to change her passports name what happens about the visa on it ??? We r pakistani citizens.  Awaiting some help thanks.


The new passport must come with the relation changed (husband's name instead of father's name). Don't let her name change in itself. Both the passports then must be kept together for the course of the visa validity.


Thanks I heard about keeping both passports but some people say no it's not possible and some say they will stamp cancelled on the old one which will make the shurtas (police) confused

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