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Letters explaining UK laws about naming children and changing your name. Sometimes called information notes.
To change your name or other personal details on your passport, send the standard passport application form with evidence about the change
You’ll need to get a new passport to travel abroad or prove your identity…
You can get a new passport in your new name either before or after the…
When you apply, you also need to send: your birth certificate a statement…
Send one of the following when you apply for a passport: a Gender…
You can: change the spelling of your name slightly - for example, Jane to…
You can change your name on your passport with one of the following…
Response to request for information on pseudonyms, nick names, code names and alternative names for ministers, MPs, officials and other individuals known to DECC.
Use form NM04 to give notice of an unconditional change of name by the company members.
Information and guidance for variations in names.
How to apply for national listing of agricultural and vegetable plant varieties in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
This information leaflet gives an overview of registration numbers.
The Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (PCGN) guidance on English conventional names.
Find out about the UK geographical indication (GI) schemes that protect the geographical names of food, drink and agricultural products, and the UK GI schemes registers.
We make sure people serve the sentences and orders handed out by courts, both in prisons and in the community.
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