evidence: Gupte has written repeatedly to the Royal Oman Police, the visa-issuing authority, stating that Khare is, in fact, her mother, but the application has been returned each time, noting that there was no proof that the two were relatives. Now, Gupte explained, either she will have to change her mother’s name on her passport to her mother’s maiden name; or her mother will have to change the name on her passport to the marital name her former in-laws gave her. [...] "Even though there’s no law that states that you have to have your father’s surname or your husband’s surname after marriage, it’s the unspoken rule of how names are supposed to be," she said. "And anything not like that is immediately seen with distrust and not genuine." [...] Anita is now married and has chosen to retain her name as it is. She is also about to have a baby, and problems with names have already begun to emerge. At the hospital she has registered with for check-ups, for instance, staff immediately put her name down using her husband’s surname. She said that even her gynaecologist has told her, "I’m warning you that you’re going to have issues getting your child’s birth certificate, because it’s hard for people to accept that the mother and father can have different surnames."