Until your bank account is in your new name you're going to have to 'fess up to certain individuals (ie. Uni Bursar etc); however you can make it clear that its confidential and to all intents and purposes still be full time.
(ps. nice of your school to get stuff done in your new name! its nice to hear about stuff going right for a change)
thanks for your comment! so i guess i will have to sort out all those money things before i go through registration, and the uni bursar will have to be the first i disclose to. i wonder if it's possible to ask them to spread the word to the Registry so i don't have to deal with shocked people and do the trans 101 more than once - but i guess i'll have to ask them when the time comes.
(yeah, it was very nice of them! my school is known to be very "open-minded" and the headmistress was ready to fight for my right to have my preferred name on every document, no matter how illegal it might have been :P i thought results, being very official, would be in my legal name, but they helped me get my chosen name on another very official thing before - cambridge esol test - and i was very very lucky to randomly pick *that* school when i moved :D)
Its up to you if you want the Bursar to inform necessary people, as long as they take the confidentiality seriously (and they should) it shouldn't be a problem.
well, they've been very nice to me on the phone! i explained the trans situation and the guy was very kind and understanding. he wasn't overly cautious like many other people are, and he basically "allowed" me to use my chosen name on the UCAS form! i expected the whole deal to be very complicated but it wasn't really :D
i wish i could - i'm italian and while i would very much like to change my name while abroad, i can't take residency before i've spent some few years in the UK and i can't change it in italy before i get through a very very long bureaucratic process that also involves getting both a mastectomy and a hysterectomy :\ i know anybody can do a statutory declaration, but i'm afraid that might be pointless since i won't have any UK documents to change and i couldn't use it to change my italian documents... i guess that's another thing i should ask in this comm, hehe.
If you can, do it in the jurisdiction where your school is, anyway. Then bring the sheet of paper to show the bursar or registrar every time you have to disclose your legal name or explain that you need a letter written in your legal name for banking/immigration purposes.
I did something very similar to what you did, and when requesting a simple letter for the bank, the person flagged my chosen name as an error and without even being informed, I found out that the name showing up in my email and the online student directory (through the Microsoft Exchange Server) had been changed to my (very feminine) birth name.
Getting it corrected was a major pain involving - among other things - a teary phone call to Press for Change, and by that point the damage was done.
So at least if you have the deed poll or a GRC or some kind of paperwork in hand to show the university staff member that, really, Nicholas has some kind of legal standing as your "real name," that might prevent the same kind of fiasco from happening to you.
oh, that's very bad news. i didn't even consider something like this could happen. i will look better into the possibility of changing my name while in the UK, even if it doesn't look really doable (if i can, then just about anyone on vacation in the UK can officially change their name and it doesn't seem so safe...), so i'll have some paperwork in case of emergency. thanks for your comment!
thanks for your comment! i think i will ask the Registry office once i disclose to them, since they will most likely be the first ones i'll have to talk to. since changing your name seems like an easy enough thing to do in the UK, they must know what to do when a person wants to change their name. i'm going to glasgow - i know i say this all the time on here, but i don't know anybody in the northern england/scottish areas, so if you ever come to glasgow, i'd be up for a beer or an orange juice or something :P i actually considered applying to aberdeen but when i visited the city it was all cloudy and grey and i didn't remember it well for some reason :P anyway, yeah, good luck with changing your name at uni! i might update you all with the way i did things once i get everything done, so maybe it can serve as guidelines for other uni students!
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(ps. nice of your school to get stuff done in your new name! its nice to hear about stuff going right for a change)
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so i guess i will have to sort out all those money things before i go through registration, and the uni bursar will have to be the first i disclose to. i wonder if it's possible to ask them to spread the word to the Registry so i don't have to deal with shocked people and do the trans 101 more than once - but i guess i'll have to ask them when the time comes.
(yeah, it was very nice of them! my school is known to be very "open-minded" and the headmistress was ready to fight for my right to have my preferred name on every document, no matter how illegal it might have been :P i thought results, being very official, would be in my legal name, but they helped me get my chosen name on another very official thing before - cambridge esol test - and i was very very lucky to randomly pick *that* school when i moved :D)
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i expected the whole deal to be very complicated but it wasn't really :D
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i know anybody can do a statutory declaration, but i'm afraid that might be pointless since i won't have any UK documents to change and i couldn't use it to change my italian documents... i guess that's another thing i should ask in this comm, hehe.
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I did something very similar to what you did, and when requesting a simple letter for the bank, the person flagged my chosen name as an error and without even being informed, I found out that the name showing up in my email and the online student directory (through the Microsoft Exchange Server) had been changed to my (very feminine) birth name.
Getting it corrected was a major pain involving - among other things - a teary phone call to Press for Change, and by that point the damage was done.
So at least if you have the deed poll or a GRC or some kind of paperwork in hand to show the university staff member that, really, Nicholas has some kind of legal standing as your "real name," that might prevent the same kind of fiasco from happening to you.
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i'm going to glasgow - i know i say this all the time on here, but i don't know anybody in the northern england/scottish areas, so if you ever come to glasgow, i'd be up for a beer or an orange juice or something :P i actually considered applying to aberdeen but when i visited the city it was all cloudy and grey and i didn't remember it well for some reason :P
anyway, yeah, good luck with changing your name at uni! i might update you all with the way i did things once i get everything done, so maybe it can serve as guidelines for other uni students!
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http://www.thelegaldeedservice.org.uk/page3.htm
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