Weird-News: Skywalker Passport Rejected

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A Star Wars fan missed out on her summer holiday after she was refused a passport because she changed her name to Skywalker.

Laura Skywalker Matthews added the Jedi middle name by deed poll in 2008 ‘for a laugh’ after joking with friends about her love of lead character Luke Skywalker.

But the joke backfired when officials took eight weeks to refuse her passport application - meaning Miss Matthews missed out on a summer break to Amsterdam.

The 29-year-old was told by passport officials that her new signature L Skywalker infringed on a trademark - despite it previously having been accepted for her driving licence.

She said: ‘It's absolutely ridiculous. They told me the issue was with my signature because L Skywalker is trademark.

‘I have the same signature on my driving licence, bank cards and everything else.

‘How can everybody else be happy with that signature, apart from the passport office?

‘Luke Skywalker is a trademark but not my signature “L Skywalker”.

‘It's been extremely stressful trying to sort all this out and I've now missed my trip to Amsterdam.

‘The whole application process has been an utter shambles from start to finish.

‘I never knew a little joke between friends was going to cause this many problems.’

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