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dhillon90000

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I recently got my Canadian citizenship. Indeed it is good news but there is one problem as my full name printed in family name.

Lets say my name "xyz Singh". On my indian passport, my full name was written in Given name column and surname was blank.
Here in canada they put full name in the surname field therefore, now when I applied for passport it is printed similar to my citizenship certificate i.e. full name printed in the surname field and given name field is left as "XXX".

I am wondering will it impact any thing? Has someone thought to changed it? What process did they took? If not changed, is there any problems person can face?
bez I'm going for marriage this year dnt want any problem

plz give any solution
 

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dhillon90000 said:
I recently got my Canadian citizenship. Indeed it is good news but there is one problem as my full name printed in family name.

Lets say my name "xyz Singh". On my indian passport, my full name was written in Given name column and surname was blank.
Here in canada they put full name in the surname field therefore, now when I applied for passport it is printed similar to my citizenship certificate i.e. full name printed in the surname field and given name field is left as "XXX".

I am wondering will it impact any thing? Has someone thought to changed it? What process did they took? If not changed, is there any problems person can face?
bez I'm going for marriage this year dnt want any problem

plz give any solution
I guess there are two solutions, one is to ask for new citizenship certificate with corrected name (i think it takes close to 5 months to process) and the second one is to change your name legally (your driving licence health card, bank accounts etc) so they will match your citizenship certificate.
 

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your Indian passport declared your name to be abcsingh and no surname.
for CIC or canadian system surname is a must, so they always have to populate the surname field.
In case of a candidate where there is only first name it will always go to surname field.
just remember to include an explanation letter with all official correspondence explaining that you only have a first name whenever dealing with CIC and when booking airline ticket make sure that the first name and surname is written as abcsingh and abcsingh and you will be good in most cases.

in the mean time get your name changed legally, and then apply for amendment of name in citizenship certificate.


this is from experience.