How to proceed with changing name on important documents

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Follow the below given steps for changing your own name.

1. Affidavit:
Go to you local Notary and make an affidavit regarding change of your name. Submit it in your respective District Court before a Magistrate or Notary Public.The Affidavit must mention the current name and the desired new name, and may mention in brief the reason for name change. The Affidavit must be made on a Non-Judicial Stamp Paper of minimal value.

2. Newspaper Publication:
The next step is to publish advertisements announcing your name change in two local newspapers – one in the local official language and another in English.

3. Gazette Notification
Get your name published in the Official Gazette of your state. For this purpose, you must approach the Government Press of your respective state and fill up the form for the same and pay the prescribed fees. Your name change notification will be published in the state’s Official Gazette and you will be sent copies of the same at the address given by you.

With Gazette notification, the name change is officially completed.

Now you can apply for name change in all other official documents by providing copies of Affidavit, newspaper ads and Gazette Notification as proof of name change.

It may take a month to change your name legally in India.But the time required to change name from official documents is additional.

Then you will have to apply to all the concerned authorities and departments for making the said correction or changing your name.

Advocate Siddhant Sharma LawRato