Marrying my fiancée in 2 months and will legally take her last name. But we are planning to both use a Allianzname (FirstName LastnameA-LastnameB), including our mailbox which will say „A. & B. LastnameA-LastnameB“ While this Allianzname wont be registered in the Civil Registry, Swiss citizens can use it in pretty much every situation as if it was. You can even get a passport with it, so with a copy of that, every other institution will just accept using that double name. I‘ve already ordered a passport for myself with the Allianzname. My future wife is not yet Swiss (currently in the middle of the naturalization process) and her country doesn’t allow double names in the passport. While she will legally be allowed to use the double last name, she won’t have any official document so if for example she wants to tell the bank to switch to the double last name, they might ask her for some proof which she can’t really provide. Or would the marriage certificate be enough? But that one also won’t show the double last name. Not even sure if it’ll show my old last name… Does anyone have some experience with how banks, insurances, employers, etc etc react to requests for name changes to a double last name when the passport only shows one last name? The whole situation will resolve itself in around a year when she (likely) gets Swiss citizenship, but that’s still a while away… Happy to hear about your experiences! submitted by /u/N3XT191
Originally posted by u/N3XT191 on r/Switzerland