INTRODUCTION
A deed poll is a document is a legal document used to formally change a person’s name. It is a document that legally confirms that you have abandoned your former name and will be using your new name in all documentation.
These are the steps that you will need to follow to ensure proper registration of a deed poll:
- You shall be required to obtain a letter from your local area chief confirming that he/she knows you, your residence and intention of changing your name.
- You shall need to visit your nearest center issuing national identification cards or the national registration bureau to have your fingerprints taken. You shall fill a form, have your fingerprints taken and await a report for the same within a week.
- We shall draft a Deed Poll on change of name, affidavit in support and a statutory declaration declared by a person who knows you for over 10 years. All these documents have to be signed.
- The Deed Poll accompanied by the following will be submitted to the Ministry of lands department for payment of stamp duty and franking and then given to the registrar for formal registration: –
- The Letter from the Chief.
- The finger print report.
- Executed and witnessed deed poll and affidavit.
- Statutory declaration declared by a person who has known you for more than ten (10) years.
- A copy of your identity card.
- KRA PIN Certificate.
- Academic certificates.
- Two (2) passport size photographs.
- Birth Certificate; Marriage certificate (where applicable).
- Divorce certificate (where applicable).
- Parent’s identity cards (where applicable)
- We shall proceed to draft a gazette notice, submit it to the government press for gazettement for sixty (60) days to allow for any objections on the same.
- After lapse of the 60 days, we shall then submit the deed poll, original gazette notice and your National identity card to facilitate issuance of a new identity card with your new name and replacement of all other documents to reflect the new name.