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Watch our caseworkers' top tips to make sure your applications are complete and correct. Avoid more than 20 common requisition points.

• Updated: 22 January 2024

A deed poll recognises a change of name of an adult or child - make your own, use official forms, or get one through a specialist agency or solicitor.

• How to change your name

  A deed poll is a legal document that proves a change of name. This guide…

• Make your own unenrolled deed poll

  You need to be 16 or over to make an ‘unenrolled’ deed poll. Some…

• Enrol a deed poll with the courts

  You can put your new name on public record by ‘enrolling’ it with the High…

• Change a child’s name

  To change the name of a child under 18 you can either: make an unenrolled…

Downloadable letters explaining UK laws and conventions on people's names and name changing.

• Updated: 16 October 2025

To change your name or other personal details on your passport, send the standard passport application form with evidence about the change

Apply for the Registered Traveller service to get through UK border control faster and without filling in a landing card

This guide provides a list of UK Sanctions List (UKSL) fields and mappings to compare with the list of fields on the OFSI Consolidated List (closed 28 January 2026).

• Updated: 22 December 2025

Information and guidance for variations in names.

• Updated: 9 March 2023

How someone in Spain can get documents legalised, witnessed or certified, take an oath of British citizenship and obtain informative notes.

• Updated: 3 February 2025

Apply for a UK Ancestry visa if you're a Commonwealth citizen and can prove that one of your grandparents was born in the UK - eligibility, fees, documents, how to apply, how long it takes and how to settle

Tips at work do not count towards the National Minimum Wage - tips and tax, what your employer has to do, advice and help, cash in hand payments