Different family name on Passport and Divorce certificate

[Simran0589]

Hi Everyone,

I am in process of applying citizenship. PR card has my ex-partner's name. Since now, I'm applying for citizenship, I will have it changed to maiden name.
I realized that on my divorce certificate, my father's name consumed from birth certificate and on my passport it's slight different than birth certificate.

Here is how it is consumed on :
- Birth certificate - Simran Avnishkumar Singh ( Used on all my documents)
- Passport his name is Avnishpuri Puranpuri Singh. So my name on passport is Simran Avnishpuri Singh.(Used in passport as per his passport)

While applying for the citizenship, officer may ask for the affidavit. So my questions are:
1) Do I have to create an affidavit saying that Simran Avnishkumar Singh and Simran Avnishpuri Singh is the same person?
2) Does my father have to create an affidavit that Avnishpuri Puranpuri Singh and Avnishkumar Puranpuri Singh is the same person? My father recently passed away so this option is not possible
3) Do I have to renew my passport based on birth certificate and other education documents? In this case my name will be Simran Avnishkumar Singh but my father's name still will be Simran Avnishpuri Singh.
4) Is there any suggestion?

Any suggestion will be helpful to deal with this situation.Thanks!

 

[armoured]

Hi Everyone,

I am in process of applying citizenship. PR card has my ex-partner's name. Since now, I'm applying for citizenship, I will have it changed to maiden name.
I realized that on my divorce certificate, my father's name consumed from birth certificate and on my passport it's slight different than birth certificate.

Here is how it is consumed on :
- Birth certificate - Simran Avnishkumar Singh ( Used on all my documents)
- Passport his name is Avnishpuri Puranpuri Singh. So my name on passport is Simran Avnishpuri Singh.(Used in passport as per his passport)

While applying for the citizenship, officer may ask for the affidavit. So my questions are:
1) Do I have to create an affidavit saying that Simran Avnishkumar Singh and Simran Avnishpuri Singh is the same person?
2) Does my father have to create an affidavit that Avnishpuri Puranpuri Singh and Avnishkumar Puranpuri Singh is the same person? My father recently passed away so this option is not possible
3) Do I have to renew my passport based on birth certificate and other education documents? In this case my name will be Simran Avnishkumar Singh but my father's name still will be Simran Avnishpuri Singh.
4) Is there any suggestion?

Any suggestion will be helpful to deal with this situation.Thanks!

I don't understand the details of what you wrote above. But I think most of this is irrelevant, because if you are changing here, all these details of how your father's first name is used in your name (sorry, I don't know the specific cultural traditions at play) can be swept away by the legal name change procedure. Remember, Canadian documents like citizenship and passport don't show your parents, so it doesn't matter.

They will also not care about your father's documents, you'll only need to show who you are and what you want your name to be. (To some degree the province may ask the reason for the name change, but this is only really about stating the reason, not having to prove or document anything - and if it's a really simple reason like 'changing to name of preferred and customary usage' or correcting error or whatever, that'll be fine.)

[Note the specific procedures and requirements between provinces differ a little bit, so I may have oversimplified a bit. Apart from possibly Quebec though I don't think the differences will matter much.

If you are reverting to your maiden name, it should go back to what it was.

But if there is any doubt, if you want to 'correct' and adopt a specific name to correspond to what you want and there is some mismatch between your home country documents, just go for the full legal change process (which will be pretty simple actually). They will not really care about this birth certificate/passport discordance, you say you want A B C and not A D C because that's what you prefer or what you used as a child or whatever.

Or specifically if you want S A-K S as on your birth certificate, do that.

 

[steaky]

What name used in your father's death certificate?

 

[Simran0589]

I don't understand the details of what you wrote above. But I think most of this is irrelevant, because if you are changing here, all these details of how your father's first name is used in your name (sorry, I don't know the specific cultural traditions at play) can be swept away by the legal name change procedure. Remember, Canadian documents like citizenship and passport don't show your parents, so it doesn't matter.

They will also not care about your father's documents, you'll only need to show who you are and what you want your name to be. (To some degree the province may ask the reason for the name change, but this is only really about stating the reason, not having to prove or document anything - and if it's a really simple reason like 'changing to name of preferred and customary usage' or correcting error or whatever, that'll be fine.)

[Note the specific procedures and requirements between provinces differ a little bit, so I may have oversimplified a bit. Apart from possibly Quebec though I don't think the differences will matter much.

If you are reverting to your maiden name, it should go back to what it was.

But if there is any doubt, if you want to 'correct' and adopt a specific name to correspond to what you want and there is some mismatch between your home country documents, just go for the full legal change process (which will be pretty simple actually). They will not really care about this birth certificate/passport discordance, you say you want A B C and not A D C because that's what you prefer or what you used as a child or whatever.

Or specifically if you want S A-K S as on your birth certificate, do that.

This is what my understanding is! Thanks for the explanation

 

[Simran0589]

What name used in your father's death certificate?

It is Avnishpuri Puranpuri Singh.