London: The region’s most tattooed man, Mathew Whelan has failed to get a passport due to his unusual name.
Mathew from Britain, who four years ago changed his name to King of Ink Land King Body Art The Extreme Ink-Ite as his 90 per cent of his body covered in ink – including his eyeball for which he spent more than £25,000.
Now, he has been offered work abroad to turn his hobby into a job, and so applied to have his passport renewed.
He said: “I applied for an update on my passport because it had expired. I got a phone call from an administrator at the passport office and they said there was a problem.
“They said my application was being reviewed by the policy department, they said they needed further government documents with my name.”
Body Art said that he promptly sent off his driving licence, a letter from his MP and mortgage letter, all by recorded delivery.
But on January 15, he received a letter from the Passport Office saying that they were sticking to policy and were refusing to issue a passport because of his unusual name.
Body Art said: “This is a breach of my human rights. They want to put my birth name on my passport. But that is not my name any more.”
A spokeswoman from Passport Office said they did not comment on individual cases and referred us to the ‘strings of words or phrases’ of their policy.
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