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Does anyone have any information regarding name changes that involve only one name — i.e., no "last name"? I'm trying to research the subject now, but I'm coming up short. For example, what happens if "John Doe" wants to change his name to "John"? - Korpios 17:09, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)
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" I recently did my gender change on namechangeinc.com; they have some great resources/laws.
Reply — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.171.231.61 ( talk) 21:27, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
I was looking into this in Canada and I know that there is an Australian man who has just one name and has a hell of a time with institutions and what not in regards identification and yet in the end they seem to go out of their way to accommodate him. He has a blog on the internet somewhere in this regard. There is also one man in America with just one name. I know in Canada there are people with one name but only in cases of having been born with one name, usually they are coming somewhere from south east Asia where it is common to have just one name and upon receiving citizenship they have the option to keep their one name or add another. I personally wanted to change my name to just one name but was refused as they cited that that would just cause too much confusion. My argument was that Native Americans used to have only one name and that the imposition of the rule requiring a minimum of two names is a European tradition and that there is no practical reason why one should not have a singular name as there are already people with just one name wandering about as I mentioned above. They denied my request, appeal and ignored my multiple letters of appeal to the local politician who had jurisdiction over such matters. 187.146.130.76 ( talk) 14:53, 28 December 2010 (UTC)God Dieux
Your link is unfortunately dead
Tydoni ( talk) 17:55, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
Here's an interesting question: If you can't get a name like "Prince" in England, what happens if someone like Prince Rogers Nelson (a.k.a. The Artist Formerly Known as Prince) moves to England? Can he get a driver's license, for example? Or are you allowed to move to England with a name like that but just can't adopt such a name once already there?
Kind of a dumb question but....... Does it cost money to change your name? If so how much?
I live in Wisconsin, myself: when I changed my name in 1994, the county courts usually charged $90 for filing the name-change papers. (Luckily, I got the fee waived when the court found me indigent.) I also had to run a legal notice in the local paper so that creditors could keep track of me; that cost $75, though the paper has probably raised its fee since then.
ISNorden
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The article should mention that assuming a religious name is common--although not mandatory--in some pagan faiths. (especially Wicca and Asatru). ISNorden 00:11, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
Off Mithun Daa Maindani ( talk) 05:30, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
The article states "There are differences in specific requirements among U.S. states, but usually a court order is needed to change names (which would be applied for in a state court)." I've read that under common law, people in many states are allowed to change their names without legal formalities; they just start using the new name. Can anyone supply a good citation to support support or refute the idea that a court order is usually needed? Also, this passage overlooks the very common situation of women changing their names when they marry, without a court order. Gerry Ashton 00:57, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Anyone can change their name anytime they like. That doesn't change your name on your Live Birth, Social Security account, DMV account, etc. You need to petition a Superior Court for that. Which involves multiple layers of background checks. Though you can introduce yourself by any name you like. There is no law against that. — Preceding
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Can immigrants in the UK (legal immigrants, that is) change their name under British law and keep their legal new name when they move to a different country or when they repatriate to their country of birth? Does a formal reason need to be given, or can anybody change their name for just personal reasons?
What did you do? 82.109.204.158 09:41, 19 May 2007 (UTC) me
Some recent edits concerning a US constitutional right to common law name changes are difficult to understand for those who are not lawyers. If at all possible, these should be changed or supplemented with a link to an on-line copy of the decisions. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gerry Ashton ( talk • contribs) 22:29, 10 December 2006 (UTC).
I would like the article to include also something on this subject -- YoavD 13:29, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
Much of the content in legal name is better explained in this article, so I was tempted to redirect legal name to this article. But would it be better for the information to be on the broad-subject page than on the narrow-subject page? What do people think? — pfahlstrom 05:27, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
the information in Legal name is pretty much an extension of Name change. merge them together or expand Legal name. Merge name change into Legal Name, because a name change is changing of a legal name. Tydoni ( talk) 22:17, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
Keep them separate - I was researching what exactly constitutes legal name, and it had nothing to do with a name change (rather going by one's middle name).
Discussions of legal name and name change are significantly intertwined, but I think that continuing to expand legal name will grow the distinctions between the two topics sufficiently to justify keeping them separate. -- SpeakKindly 04:09, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
Support for merge, they are basically the same thing. andrewrox424 Bleep 12:27, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
Strong support of merging. Rhythmnation2004 01:49, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
Opposition to Merge:
I think this page is very useful as its own entity, and the value that it has would be completely lost if it were embedded in another page. I found this page by searching for "name change" because I wanted to find specific information about this particular legal issue. If this page did not exist, I probably would not have been able to find the information at all. I think leaving this page as it is and developing its information will provide a significant benefit to the population who uses Wikipedia. Please consider this before moving forward with a merge. -Gabriel Cross (maybe soon to be Gabriel Owen Cross)December 6, 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.79.70.138 ( talk) 00:54, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
Oppose. This article is fairly long, and there is pleanty of worthwhile material that could be added to make it longer. The "Legal name" article could focus on issues unrelated to name changes, such as, do legal names really exist? If so, how are they assigned? Can a person have more than one legal name at the same time? What is the effect of using a name that isn't a legal name, when there is no intent of changing the name (i.e. pseudonym, nickname). I think there is pleanty of material to support both articles, if they were both fleshed out. -- Gerry Ashton ( talk) 15:52, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
I request info on name change laws and procedures in Australia, if anyone has it. 130.194.13.103 07:55, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Australia is a federation and the law in respect of a change of name differs between states/territories. The article as it stands uses sources (both dead links) from one state, Queensland, and mistakenly assumes that is the uniform position. The law is similar but procedures, forms and fees differ. Otherthinker ( talk) 10:32, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
I have updated this article with the above issues in mind. It is more up-to-date. I have removed the restriction around 12 months as it is not an issue in some states. Supcmd ( talk) 11:13, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
Can someone add something to the United States section about how citizenship authorities at Ellis Island gave lots of immigrants new American names upon their arrival at port, without, you know, asking them? We've all seen it in the movies, I want to read something factual about it. VolatileChemical ( talk) 07:53, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
the information I am reading states that that rarely happened at least at Elis island. It may have been changed by other clerks, teachers or by the person themselves. here is some info about it [1] http://genealogy.about.com/od/ellis_island/a/name_change.htm [2] http://www.genealogy.com/88_donna.html [3] http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=3893 Tydoni ( talk) 01:41, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
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Why is Quebec featured here? Is the author of that section under the impression that Quebec is anything more than a territory in Canada? It's hardly important enough to warrant its own section simply because Quebec is so culturally preserved that they refuse to allow anyone to do anything at all. I mean, we might as well go ahead and toss in sections for every other province, all the states in the US, Hawaii, Alaska, maybe a few shanty-towns in Africa. 64.253.217.148 ( talk) 22:46, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Can we explain the process for the rest of Canada then? Tydoni ( talk) 22:15, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
Quebec is completely distinct from the rest of Canada because it operates as a civil law (rather than common law) jurisdiction. All the other provinces will follow similar processes based in statute. In Quebec, the process is based in an entirely different legal tradition and philosophical framework, hence why it merits distinction.
added some info on the rest of Canada Tydoni ( talk) 22:38, 22 March 2009 (UTC) the Canada section should be expanded Tydoni ( talk) 01:20, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
"Time can be of the essence. Most states require name changes to be registered with their department of motor vehicles within a certain time frame. For example, South Carolina[7], and Wyoming[8] require a name change be registered with their office in a mere ten days."
Above, "time can be of the essence" and "mere ten days" are awkward phrases for an encyclopedia article. Please correct. -- 72.68.192.132 ( talk) 22:25, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
I have long suspected that the claims in the article about common law name changes being a constitutional right in the US was exaggerated. Now that Google Scholar allows one to see many legal opinions, I was able to read Jech v. Burch and found that it did not support the following claims, which I have removed from the article:
What Jech v. Burch actually found was that there was a constitutional privacy right for parents to give their child any name they wished, and the state would have to have a reasonable public purpose to legislate otherwise. While the common-law right to change one's name at will was mentioned, no finding was made about whether it was a constitutional right. (Ordinarily states are free to pass legislation that overrides the common law.) -- Jc3s5h ( talk) 16:42, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
Since the earliest version of this article only addressed the United States, US spelling should be used. Also, since the first full date was introduced in February 2004, and used the month, day, year format, that format should be used. Jc3s5h ( talk) 17:40, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Should the Name change article be restructured to just provide an overview of the concept, with links to an article for each country or region where sufficient information can be found to create an article? Would the article be far too long if country-specific information were placed in the Name change article?
Dbpjmuf claims that it is nonsense that in the past a couple would, upon marriage, assume the surname of "the name of the person with the most land". The article cites a court case to support this claim, but I do not have access to the case. I recall reading that this custom did indeed exist in England, but am unable to find where I read that. Jc3s5h ( talk) 04:24, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
The article claims:
A person may be employed, do business, enter into contracts, sue and be sued under any name they choose at will.[1] Such a change carries exactly the same legal weight as a court-decreed name change, as long as it is not done with fraudulent intent.[2]
However, United States v. McKay does not fully support this. That case only says "[The right to change one's name by usage] is true in the absence of a restrictive statute, and is not abrogated by the fact that a procedure is provided by statute for the change of one's name." So a state may pass a statute eliminating or limiting the effect of a common law name change, just as a state may pass legislation overriding any other aspect of the common law. Kushner argues that a few states have indeed overridden common law name changes with respect to one,s true name, but even in those states one may still use, contract under, and be sued under, informal names, aliases, or nom de plumes, which are additional names one has in addition to one's true name. A common example is that while it is not illegal for a person to become known by a new name, few if any departments of motor vehicles would issue a driver's license in such a name without some official documentation that the name has changed. Can anyone with access to the other two cases look at them and see of they really support the claim in the article? Jc3s5h ( talk) 19:59, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
The article states that a marrying counple can choose a totally new surname. This is incorrect. According to the NYS Vital Records website, and various others, a surname MUST be the surname of either spouse, a former surname, or a combination of their surnames. Part of their surnames MUST be in the Onomasticsfinal surname. You cannot simply "make a new name" as the article says. For example. Ms. Smith and Mr. Jones can become the Jones', or the Smiths, the Smitones, or the Joths. But they cannot become the Jakobs family. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.183.84.89 ( talk) 00:21, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
"Шведов" (rus). Such neutrality is seen in the page in Russian wiki where there are many people with this family name (statictics in time). It is related with onomastics and changing of the family name. RippleSax ( talk) 12:47, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
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Reasons for changing one's name is really long and has lots of marginal examples with no evidence. Can we clean this section up? WriterArtistCoder ( talk) 04:30, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
This was recently added to the list of purposes:
I confess I do not understand this. Our William Smith is afflicted with a passport that mistakenly shows his whole name in the SURNAME field? In his shoes, I'd complain to the issuing authority – emigrating seems a drastic remedy. But okay, let's go with it. In the new country, the immigration authority copies the error and likewise issues him defective documents, and now he's fed up … — Tamfang ( talk) 06:17, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
The India section should be rewritten as less of a WP:HOWTO. — Tamfang ( talk) 07:19, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
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Does anyone have any information regarding name changes that involve only one name — i.e., no "last name"? I'm trying to research the subject now, but I'm coming up short. For example, what happens if "John Doe" wants to change his name to "John"? - Korpios 17:09, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)
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" I recently did my gender change on namechangeinc.com; they have some great resources/laws.
Reply — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.171.231.61 ( talk) 21:27, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
I was looking into this in Canada and I know that there is an Australian man who has just one name and has a hell of a time with institutions and what not in regards identification and yet in the end they seem to go out of their way to accommodate him. He has a blog on the internet somewhere in this regard. There is also one man in America with just one name. I know in Canada there are people with one name but only in cases of having been born with one name, usually they are coming somewhere from south east Asia where it is common to have just one name and upon receiving citizenship they have the option to keep their one name or add another. I personally wanted to change my name to just one name but was refused as they cited that that would just cause too much confusion. My argument was that Native Americans used to have only one name and that the imposition of the rule requiring a minimum of two names is a European tradition and that there is no practical reason why one should not have a singular name as there are already people with just one name wandering about as I mentioned above. They denied my request, appeal and ignored my multiple letters of appeal to the local politician who had jurisdiction over such matters. 187.146.130.76 ( talk) 14:53, 28 December 2010 (UTC)God Dieux
Your link is unfortunately dead
Tydoni ( talk) 17:55, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
Here's an interesting question: If you can't get a name like "Prince" in England, what happens if someone like Prince Rogers Nelson (a.k.a. The Artist Formerly Known as Prince) moves to England? Can he get a driver's license, for example? Or are you allowed to move to England with a name like that but just can't adopt such a name once already there?
Kind of a dumb question but....... Does it cost money to change your name? If so how much?
I live in Wisconsin, myself: when I changed my name in 1994, the county courts usually charged $90 for filing the name-change papers. (Luckily, I got the fee waived when the court found me indigent.) I also had to run a legal notice in the local paper so that creditors could keep track of me; that cost $75, though the paper has probably raised its fee since then.
ISNorden
23:32, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
The article should mention that assuming a religious name is common--although not mandatory--in some pagan faiths. (especially Wicca and Asatru). ISNorden 00:11, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
Off Mithun Daa Maindani ( talk) 05:30, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
The article states "There are differences in specific requirements among U.S. states, but usually a court order is needed to change names (which would be applied for in a state court)." I've read that under common law, people in many states are allowed to change their names without legal formalities; they just start using the new name. Can anyone supply a good citation to support support or refute the idea that a court order is usually needed? Also, this passage overlooks the very common situation of women changing their names when they marry, without a court order. Gerry Ashton 00:57, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Anyone can change their name anytime they like. That doesn't change your name on your Live Birth, Social Security account, DMV account, etc. You need to petition a Superior Court for that. Which involves multiple layers of background checks. Though you can introduce yourself by any name you like. There is no law against that. — Preceding
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Can immigrants in the UK (legal immigrants, that is) change their name under British law and keep their legal new name when they move to a different country or when they repatriate to their country of birth? Does a formal reason need to be given, or can anybody change their name for just personal reasons?
What did you do? 82.109.204.158 09:41, 19 May 2007 (UTC) me
Some recent edits concerning a US constitutional right to common law name changes are difficult to understand for those who are not lawyers. If at all possible, these should be changed or supplemented with a link to an on-line copy of the decisions. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gerry Ashton ( talk • contribs) 22:29, 10 December 2006 (UTC).
I would like the article to include also something on this subject -- YoavD 13:29, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
Much of the content in legal name is better explained in this article, so I was tempted to redirect legal name to this article. But would it be better for the information to be on the broad-subject page than on the narrow-subject page? What do people think? — pfahlstrom 05:27, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
the information in Legal name is pretty much an extension of Name change. merge them together or expand Legal name. Merge name change into Legal Name, because a name change is changing of a legal name. Tydoni ( talk) 22:17, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
Keep them separate - I was researching what exactly constitutes legal name, and it had nothing to do with a name change (rather going by one's middle name).
Discussions of legal name and name change are significantly intertwined, but I think that continuing to expand legal name will grow the distinctions between the two topics sufficiently to justify keeping them separate. -- SpeakKindly 04:09, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
Support for merge, they are basically the same thing. andrewrox424 Bleep 12:27, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
Strong support of merging. Rhythmnation2004 01:49, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
Opposition to Merge:
I think this page is very useful as its own entity, and the value that it has would be completely lost if it were embedded in another page. I found this page by searching for "name change" because I wanted to find specific information about this particular legal issue. If this page did not exist, I probably would not have been able to find the information at all. I think leaving this page as it is and developing its information will provide a significant benefit to the population who uses Wikipedia. Please consider this before moving forward with a merge. -Gabriel Cross (maybe soon to be Gabriel Owen Cross)December 6, 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.79.70.138 ( talk) 00:54, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
Oppose. This article is fairly long, and there is pleanty of worthwhile material that could be added to make it longer. The "Legal name" article could focus on issues unrelated to name changes, such as, do legal names really exist? If so, how are they assigned? Can a person have more than one legal name at the same time? What is the effect of using a name that isn't a legal name, when there is no intent of changing the name (i.e. pseudonym, nickname). I think there is pleanty of material to support both articles, if they were both fleshed out. -- Gerry Ashton ( talk) 15:52, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
I request info on name change laws and procedures in Australia, if anyone has it. 130.194.13.103 07:55, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Australia is a federation and the law in respect of a change of name differs between states/territories. The article as it stands uses sources (both dead links) from one state, Queensland, and mistakenly assumes that is the uniform position. The law is similar but procedures, forms and fees differ. Otherthinker ( talk) 10:32, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
I have updated this article with the above issues in mind. It is more up-to-date. I have removed the restriction around 12 months as it is not an issue in some states. Supcmd ( talk) 11:13, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
Can someone add something to the United States section about how citizenship authorities at Ellis Island gave lots of immigrants new American names upon their arrival at port, without, you know, asking them? We've all seen it in the movies, I want to read something factual about it. VolatileChemical ( talk) 07:53, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
the information I am reading states that that rarely happened at least at Elis island. It may have been changed by other clerks, teachers or by the person themselves. here is some info about it [1] http://genealogy.about.com/od/ellis_island/a/name_change.htm [2] http://www.genealogy.com/88_donna.html [3] http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=3893 Tydoni ( talk) 01:41, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
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Why is Quebec featured here? Is the author of that section under the impression that Quebec is anything more than a territory in Canada? It's hardly important enough to warrant its own section simply because Quebec is so culturally preserved that they refuse to allow anyone to do anything at all. I mean, we might as well go ahead and toss in sections for every other province, all the states in the US, Hawaii, Alaska, maybe a few shanty-towns in Africa. 64.253.217.148 ( talk) 22:46, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Can we explain the process for the rest of Canada then? Tydoni ( talk) 22:15, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
Quebec is completely distinct from the rest of Canada because it operates as a civil law (rather than common law) jurisdiction. All the other provinces will follow similar processes based in statute. In Quebec, the process is based in an entirely different legal tradition and philosophical framework, hence why it merits distinction.
added some info on the rest of Canada Tydoni ( talk) 22:38, 22 March 2009 (UTC) the Canada section should be expanded Tydoni ( talk) 01:20, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
"Time can be of the essence. Most states require name changes to be registered with their department of motor vehicles within a certain time frame. For example, South Carolina[7], and Wyoming[8] require a name change be registered with their office in a mere ten days."
Above, "time can be of the essence" and "mere ten days" are awkward phrases for an encyclopedia article. Please correct. -- 72.68.192.132 ( talk) 22:25, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
I have long suspected that the claims in the article about common law name changes being a constitutional right in the US was exaggerated. Now that Google Scholar allows one to see many legal opinions, I was able to read Jech v. Burch and found that it did not support the following claims, which I have removed from the article:
What Jech v. Burch actually found was that there was a constitutional privacy right for parents to give their child any name they wished, and the state would have to have a reasonable public purpose to legislate otherwise. While the common-law right to change one's name at will was mentioned, no finding was made about whether it was a constitutional right. (Ordinarily states are free to pass legislation that overrides the common law.) -- Jc3s5h ( talk) 16:42, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
Since the earliest version of this article only addressed the United States, US spelling should be used. Also, since the first full date was introduced in February 2004, and used the month, day, year format, that format should be used. Jc3s5h ( talk) 17:40, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Should the Name change article be restructured to just provide an overview of the concept, with links to an article for each country or region where sufficient information can be found to create an article? Would the article be far too long if country-specific information were placed in the Name change article?
Dbpjmuf claims that it is nonsense that in the past a couple would, upon marriage, assume the surname of "the name of the person with the most land". The article cites a court case to support this claim, but I do not have access to the case. I recall reading that this custom did indeed exist in England, but am unable to find where I read that. Jc3s5h ( talk) 04:24, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
The article claims:
A person may be employed, do business, enter into contracts, sue and be sued under any name they choose at will.[1] Such a change carries exactly the same legal weight as a court-decreed name change, as long as it is not done with fraudulent intent.[2]
However, United States v. McKay does not fully support this. That case only says "[The right to change one's name by usage] is true in the absence of a restrictive statute, and is not abrogated by the fact that a procedure is provided by statute for the change of one's name." So a state may pass a statute eliminating or limiting the effect of a common law name change, just as a state may pass legislation overriding any other aspect of the common law. Kushner argues that a few states have indeed overridden common law name changes with respect to one,s true name, but even in those states one may still use, contract under, and be sued under, informal names, aliases, or nom de plumes, which are additional names one has in addition to one's true name. A common example is that while it is not illegal for a person to become known by a new name, few if any departments of motor vehicles would issue a driver's license in such a name without some official documentation that the name has changed. Can anyone with access to the other two cases look at them and see of they really support the claim in the article? Jc3s5h ( talk) 19:59, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
The article states that a marrying counple can choose a totally new surname. This is incorrect. According to the NYS Vital Records website, and various others, a surname MUST be the surname of either spouse, a former surname, or a combination of their surnames. Part of their surnames MUST be in the Onomasticsfinal surname. You cannot simply "make a new name" as the article says. For example. Ms. Smith and Mr. Jones can become the Jones', or the Smiths, the Smitones, or the Joths. But they cannot become the Jakobs family. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.183.84.89 ( talk) 00:21, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
"Шведов" (rus). Such neutrality is seen in the page in Russian wiki where there are many people with this family name (statictics in time). It is related with onomastics and changing of the family name. RippleSax ( talk) 12:47, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
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Reasons for changing one's name is really long and has lots of marginal examples with no evidence. Can we clean this section up? WriterArtistCoder ( talk) 04:30, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
This was recently added to the list of purposes:
I confess I do not understand this. Our William Smith is afflicted with a passport that mistakenly shows his whole name in the SURNAME field? In his shoes, I'd complain to the issuing authority – emigrating seems a drastic remedy. But okay, let's go with it. In the new country, the immigration authority copies the error and likewise issues him defective documents, and now he's fed up … — Tamfang ( talk) 06:17, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
The India section should be rewritten as less of a WP:HOWTO. — Tamfang ( talk) 07:19, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
TAMANG 103.94.255.111 ( talk) 13:34, 1 March 2024 (UTC)