Quite often people are dissatisfied with that surname they got which from parents, and would like to change it, but do not know as.
Whether it is possible to change a surname voluntarily?
Women often face a problem how to change a surname, after a marriage. But to receive the passport and with a new surname, and even with a new name it is possible if the person already was 14 years old. Under the law, it can change the personal data if the reason for which he wants to make it, is recognized as objective. For example, if the surname dissonant, hard to pronounce or is associated with curses.
What it is necessary to make to change a surname?
Contrary to popular belief, it is absolutely simple to change a surname in the passport. For this purpose, first of all, it is necessary to submit the application to the REGISTRY OFFICE (usually address in where marriage was registered). Besides, will be necessary:
- old passport;
- birth certificate;
- documents on registration of marriage or on its cancellation;
- birth certificates of children (at a divorce).
within one month will be considered, in certain cases process can be dragged out, but not much more and on it you have to be notified in advance. Then the document which needs to be submitted in a passport office in the place of a registration or registration is handed out. Here it will be necessary to submit one more application — about replacement of the old passport for new with other surname and also two photos and other papers in which it is necessary to make marks about the identity card. Previously it is necessary to pay through bank the specific tax — the state fee and to bring the receipt as the proof. After obtaining the new passport it will be necessary to think of expeditious replacement of the insurance, pension certificate, driver's license other.
If the REGISTRY OFFICE in change a surname it was refused, then it is possible to appeal against this decision in court.