Fellas,
I'm going to wait until It is confirmed but thanks I might take some of your actions.

Girls,

I'm waiting for your responses to do I re(?) marry. go for a new commitment ceremony, registry office or Live in sin?
What are the consequences from your perspective. I admit I don't understand her motives..e.g. When "We...she" picked her engagement ring.
What it represented was way more important than it's form to me. she hated diamonds 'too cold'.

We went to every jewelers shop in Footscray eventually going back to the original two rings looked at, one an emerald the other a ruby. I told her what ever she wanted was ok with me. 48 minutes after closing time she picked the emerald.

20 years later, after a small fortune having been spent on matching jewelry, she let it slip that she had wanted/preferred rubies! So I bought her a ruby dress set....only to be told "it's nice... but it's not an emerald or a diamond!" I give up!
She is prone to 'whatever you think' refusing to decide. Then after the purchase I get the 'buts' and 'the what abouts'. So back to the original question your guess is probably better than mine.

I have a passport application in front of me, and it insists on a Birth Certificate, not a marriage certificate. I only picked it up last week, so it should be current.

I went through this recently and did have to produce a marriage certificate because I changed my name on marriage.

You gotta love bureacratic bungling don't you. It is a tangle of forms and more forms and stat decs and God knows what else to fix these seemingly simple errors. Sigh!! :)

Good luck exammy.

Pete,
I think the problem is that it requires proof of identity (100 points or something) none of "the war dept's", current stuff agrees with the name on the birth cert. She was told it had to prove her birth name = the proof of identity. Even the neighbour is nervous about signing the photo as being the name on the Birth cert. She's happy to verify under the married name though.

Anyway we're waiting for a formal response before hitting the panic button. I just thought it was a great case of bureaucratic Oops or big brother taking his eye off the ball. Perhaps there's hope for wanna be reformers like me yet. There's still some time.

Pelican
If it does go boobs up my question to the girls is what should I do if anything about the married status ...see my penultimate post.

Well exammy
If it turns out you were never legally married I would definintely say get married and renew those earlier vows with new vigour and energy. But I am a hopeless romantic.

Peter!

Where are you going?