In India if you want to change your name legally you must follow three things below.
- Affidavit Submission:
- Ad Publication:
- Gazette Notification:
1. Affidavit Submission for Name Change In Gazette Maharashtra:
You need to contact notary to prepare Affidavit for Name Change. Give detail like name, new name, residential address, reason to name change for example: spelling mistake, marriage, Numerology ect. After getting sign of officer with their stamp keep copy with you for future legal procesure.
For Name Change, you’ll need to make an affidavit before a Notary or a Magistrate. This is when you declare to the Notary or Magistrate that the information you’re providing is true and that you’re personally responsible for your statement. You can now change your name by using our simple online form. All you have to do is fill in your details in less than two minutes on our website with in no time our assistant will reply you for Name Change Affidavit India
2. Ad Publication:
After making Affidavit you need to publish an advertisement in local and national newspaper. One English newspaper and one any regional language you can select. For example you are in Mumbai then you can select Active Times andMumbai Lakshadeep, or Free Press Journal and Navshakti Newspaper.
Just fill the form on our website and attached document as require , after payment done your ad will be published on selected date in selected newspaper.
3. Gazette Notification:
After your Gazette notification has been published the name change will legally effective.
Submit all documents on Gazette office.
- Deed changing name form
- Letter of declaration reason why you are changing name
- Original copies of advertisements published in Newspapers with the date
- Attested Photographs
- Address and Identity proofs
You will get Gazette notifications , print the change of your name in the Gazette.