Posts by Ian R 3 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Feb 2009
Note the URL: http://www.ukdps.CO.uk. This UK Deed Poll Service isn't a government department, it's a commercial operation that tries to get people to pay them money to print some fancy legal wording onto a good quality piece of paper, something you can quite simply and legally do yourself at home:
http://www.gorge.org/experiences/deedpoll.shtml
There is no deed poll service. In the UK you don't need anyone's permission to change your name, you simply start using the new name. No registration, no pieces of paper required. However you might have trouble convincing officials of the change if you don't have it in writing, so you make a deed poll, which is simply a declaration saying that you have given up your old name for a new one, signed in the presence of a witness (any witness, doesn't have to be a solicitor or anything like that).
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