Name Change Process: A great English writer, actor William Shakespeare had said one thing. ‘What’s in the name’ means what’s in the name. You must have heard this dialogue a lot from the people around you. Actually name is our identity. We are called by this name in the world. There are many people who have more than one name. If we look at the creative field, many actors and many writers and singers have earned name with new names instead of their real names.
Be it Rajeev Bhatia or Akshay Kumar. Yusuf Khan to Dilip Kumar or Aditya Prateek Singh to Badshah. Everyone changed their names. Legal name change in India. It is not such an easy task. For this there is a fixed process under which you have to go through. Let us know.
First of all we have to tell the reason
If any person does anything in this world, there is some hidden reason behind it. When you want to change your name. So after applying for it, first of all you have to tell the reason for it. Why are you wanting to change your name? Often people get their name changed after marriage or divorce or after religious conversion. Therefore, after knowing the reason, there is not much difficulty in the further process.
Affidavit has to be filed
When you start the process of changing your name, you have to file an affidavit for it. Affidavit is a legal document. Which is also called affidavit or affidavit. This contains the name of the person changing the name. And the name he now wants to change happens. Along with this, the reason behind changing the name also has to be written.
It has to be published in the Gazette
Gazette is called Gazette in English. All the official information by the Indian Government is published here. This is now called Gazette of India. Information about changing your name has to be published in it. Along with this, you also have to get a record i.e. deed prepared. Which is also called name change deed. After this this document is given to all the concerned offices. Which includes everything from passport office to banks and other government offices.
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