How to Re-Order your Deed Poll

In the UK, a person can legally alter their name with the use of a Deed Poll instrument. A Deed Poll, like a Decree Absolute, Marriage Certificate, or Civil Partnership Certificate, is official documents that allows someone to have their name changed in official records. Without this certificate or another comparable sort of documentary verification, government bodies, corporations, and organizations virtually ever acknowledge a name change.

Does a Deed Poll Need to Be Reordered?

Use our online form to Re-order your deed poll at a discounted price. Our objective is to ship out posts as quickly as we can. Delivery times vary. A Deed Poll can be used to change any part of a person's name. People may choose to change just their surname, only their forename, or both of their surname and forename.

This paper needs to be completed before it can be used as formal documentation of a name change and become operational. To perform a Deed Poll, one only needs to sign it in front of a witness. Through the use of a Deed Poll, the individual promises to give up and never use their old name again, to go by their new name at all times, and to insist that others only call them by their new name.

As soon as a Deed Poll is executed, a person can use it to have all of their records such as their driver's license, passport, and bank account information changed. For all official documents to be updated, the name change needs to be submitted to all government agencies, corporations, and organizations.

You should safely store your Deed Poll with your birth certificate after you have corrected all records with it. This allows you to easily create them together if you need to show how the name you are using and your birth name differ.