Woman refused passport for changing her name to Skywalker
A 'Star Wars' fan has had her passport application rejected.
''How can everybody else be happy with that signature, apart from the passport office?''
Laura Skywalker Matthews from the United Kingdom - who officially changed her name by deed poll in 2008 - needed to renew her passport for a trip to Amsterdam but she was refused the travel document because her signature of L Skywalker infringed copyright.
Miss Matthews told the Daily Mirror newspaper: ''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?''
Laura missed her summer holiday and has now been forced to change the signature on her passport.