I lost my first name while Landing

[swknight]

I am not sure where is curve ball belongs to, so here it is.

So, I landed 2 days ago at the rainbow bridge. Only found out then that my case officer has assigned my whole name as my Last Name. Now they would not change it; the reason being it is exactly the way it was written in my passport.

Basically my country, Myanmar, has no such thing on our passports. So my full name was written under "Name" and the case officer saw it fit to assign the whole thing as my Last name and left the First Name as blank. He/she did not take into account of the way the forms were filled out with first and last names.

I have a few concerns. I am not sure if anyone else have ever encountered the same problem.

1) How does it affect my CRA? (I went to service Canada to get my SIN card done and they tell me it should not affect. I just have to leave the first name blank as I file for taxes)
2) So I have to go change my driver license too? If so, banks, etc etc(I have been in Canada 12 years so pretty much everything is last name, first name)

Now to prevent all that, I could go for a legal name change to get back my own name -_-". Any opinions? advices?

 

[BCKev]

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/amend.asp

I think it would be easier to have the mistake fixed than to change your name on everything.

 

[swknight]

[quote author=BCKev

I think it would be easier to have the mistake fixed than to change your name on everything.
[/quote]

1) I am told it is not a mistake and hence the amend form will not apply
2) Even if it was a mistake, since the process is over, it is done (CIC agent told me that, though I highly doubt it.)

The case officer has it in his authority to assign the name as he sees fit. As said earlier, my passport will not list which is first or last name. It just says "Name : John Doe". As such the case officer took it upon himself, to assign the full name "John Doe" as my last name while totally ignoring the forms I had filled out.

I had talked to the CIC, CBSA and even went back to rainbow bridge where I landed. All to no avail. I have talked to lots of others as well and it seems the only option if I want my right name back is legal name change.

However having said all that, I am already in the process of submitting an amend form, no harm trying. At least I hope not.