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After four years of trying to change her legal last name, including a trip to India to get an affidavit verifying her name change from a previous marriage, a woman came to us for help.
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After four years of trying to change her legal last name, including a trip to India to get an affidavit verifying her name change from a previous marriage, a woman came to us for help.
After four years of trying to change her legal last name, including a trip to India to get an affidavit verifying her name change from a previous marriage, a woman came to us for help.
Result: We discovered the woman’s file was stalled because her payment to the Registrar General for the name change had not been registered. A day after we stepped in, the Registrar General confirmed that her file was processed, and the change of name certificate would be sent to the woman via courier.