On Sat, 24 Aug 2013 12:58:28 +0100, brightside S9 <address@replyto_is_not.invalid> wrote: >I'll ask the question here first, and then try uk.legal > >I have a friend who's birth was registered as forename 1 (let's say >XXX) forname 2 (let's say YYY) and surname. (I know that it can >happen, my wife registred the birth of my first son in hospital as the >registrar came round the maternity ward and named him without my >presence). > >My friend *thinks / guesses* that some family disagrrements over >these registerd fornames led to him always being called with a >forename ZZZ. > >His his baptismal certificate, driving licence, passport, employment >records, bank account, credit and debit cards, NI records, and >marriage certificate are all shown with forename ZZZ. > >He has known that his birth certificate doesn't show the ZZZ forename >for some time but this has not raised any concerns for him until now. > >He has applied for a job which requires considerable security >checking. Needless to say this forname discrepancy on the birth >certificate aginst all the other documents listed above has resulted >in him failing the security check *unless* he can prove that >XXX-YYY-surname is the same person as ZZZ-surname. His parents are >long deceased and no living family member has any idea why his birth >registration forenames were unacceptable to either his mother, father >or other family member and who chose to call him by the ZZZ forename. > >ISTR that it is permissable to call oneself any name one chooses >provided it is not for nefarious purposes. But how could a neme change >be made 'official', after 55 years of being known as ZZZ surname'? > >Has any of the contributors to this newsgroup come across such a >situation as this before, and any ideas what he should do to prove >that XXX-YYY-surname is the same person as ZZZ-surname. > Make a statutary declaration, see the first page of :- https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/118551/statutory-declarations.pdf WRT their use in connection with passports. Apart from the declaration re the 1835 Act mentioned, there would presumably need to be included for reasons of usability specific references to official records providing a chain of information (birth and marriage registrations, current and past addresses). IMU an NI number is not regarded as reliable proof of identity unlike an NHS number whose associated record should cover him from birth to the present day if he always lived in the UK; although now using a different number format, the NHS record number systems have their roots in the WW2 identity card system. If he was born in Scotland then see also :- http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/regscot/change-of-name.html