Hello Naija Group.
It feels good to see a group of your own people.
I have some problems please, and I really need all the help I can get.
My wife is the Principal applicant (May 2019) and we got married after she submitted her application. We have informed CIC of this new status, and they recently sent us a spouse update request In March 2020, before Covid happened and everything halted. Nothing has moved ever since on our application.
Our problems are:
1) My wife still bears her Family surname (as it was on her application) , we decided to leave it that way after marriage since we got advise that surnames do not matter.
Should she change her own surname to mine now? Or it still doesn't matter?
2) We are expecting a baby very soon. Would our baby's surname (my surname) on the Birth certificate create any issues as my wife's surname is still different from mine?
I really hope to get answers please, as these issues are bothering her. And I really need her to be calm and not worried.