Documents to Update After Gazette Name Change in Uttarakhand

Step 1: Download the Gazette notice and make your set

The Gazette PDF, the affidavit and the full newspaper page, in one folder, with several prints.

Step 2: Update Aadhaar first

At an Aadhaar Seva Kendra, with the Gazette and proof of the old name. Most other offices check against it.

Step 3: Then PAN

Through the correction application, once Aadhaar shows the new name. Never apply for a second PAN.

Step 4: Then the bank, insurance and investments

Once Aadhaar and PAN agree with each other. A bank that moves first can fail its own verification.

Step 5: Then the passport

As a re-issue in the new name, once your identity papers agree.

Step 6: Then the voter card, the driving licence and your employer

Each on the Gazette and the updated Aadhaar.

Step 7: Then property, vehicles and household connections

As each office directs. These take longest, and matter most at a sale or a death.

Step 8: Take fresh state certificates, and keep the set for good

Residence, income or caste certificates are applied for again in the new name. Old degrees are not reprinted.

Aadhaar allows a name change only twice in a lifetime. Do not spend one on a spelling you have not settled. The same PAN is corrected, never replaced. A passport is re-issued as a new booklet, so tell your bank and employer its new number afterwards.

• An employer. Give the Gazette and updated Aadhaar and PAN to your office, so that pay, tax and provident fund records follow.
• A Government employee. The service record is changed under service rules, on an application to your own department.
• Degrees and mark sheets. Usually not reprinted for a change made after they were issued. They stay valid, read with the Gazette.
• A student still enrolled. Ask the school, board or university at once. A record corrected before the final certificate is printed saves a lifetime of explaining.
• A professional registration. A council or bar updates its register on its own form. Your right to practise is under the name on that register.
• An application in progress. Tell the recruiting body, and carry the Gazette to verification.

Read name change in private job and employer records, name change for Government employees and child name change in school records.

• Your name appears on other people's papers: as a spouse on a passport, as a parent on a child's birth certificate and school record.
• Those papers were true when made, and stay valid.
• Later papers should carry your new name. Tell the school before the next examination form.
• A spouse's passport shows your name on its last page. It is updated at that passport's next re-issue.
• Nominations in your favour, on a relative's policy or account, name you as you were. Ask them to update the nomination.
• Where a child's paper is to be corrected to show your new name, that office decides on its own rules, with your Gazette.

Read father’s name change and correction, mother’s name change and correction and nominee name mismatch.

• For some weeks your Aadhaar may show the new name while your bank, licence and passport show the old.
• That is expected. It is not a mismatch to be alarmed by, so long as you can explain it.
• Carry a print of the Gazette notice with whichever identity paper you show.
• Do not open a new account, sign a property paper or book travel abroad in the new name until the paper you will show for it carries that name.
• Book tickets in the name on the identity paper you will carry that day.
• Keep a simple list of offices, with the date you applied to each and the date it was done.

Read how to download a Gazette copy and flight ticket name mismatch.

Step 1: Fix the exact new name before anything else

The spelling, the spacing and the order of words. Every later office will copy it.

Step 2: Give the address that is on your Aadhaar

So that the notice and Aadhaar agree when you go to update it.

Step 3: Make the affidavit and publish the newspaper notice

Sign before a notary. Publish in a daily local leading newspaper, and keep the original newspaper.

Step 4: Type the form and sign the undertaking

Two typed copies of the specimen, signed in your old name with two witnesses, and the undertaking.

Step 5: Prepare the CD, photographs and certificate

The same text on a CD in MS Word, two self-attested photographs with identity proof, and a certificate that both copies match.

Step 6: Pay the charge on BharatKosh

Commonly Rs 1,100 for an adult. It is not refunded.

Step 7: Send the file yourself

To the Controller of Publications, Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054.

Step 8: Watch for the notice, then begin the updates

A Gazette commonly takes 3 to 7 weeks. Nothing on this page starts until it is published.

See gazette name change in Uttarakhand and gazette name change time and fees.

A typical case we handle: a woman in Dehradun had her change of name published in the Gazette. She went first to her bank, which updated her account. Her Aadhaar and PAN still carried the old name, and within weeks the account failed a routine verification. She came back to us puzzled. Nothing was wrong with the Gazette. She had begun in the middle. She updated Aadhaar, then PAN, and asked the bank to verify again, and the rest followed in order. This is an illustrative example of the type of case we handle, not a named client review.

What we do, and what you do

We prepare the Gazette file. The updates afterwards are made by you, in person or online, at each office. We tell you the order, and which paper each office asks for, as part of the same work.

What should I update first after a Gazette name change?

Aadhaar.

Does the Gazette automatically update my Aadhaar and PAN?

No. Each is applied for separately.

Can I update my bank account before Aadhaar?

It is better not to. Aadhaar and PAN first.

Will my degree be reissued in my new name?

Usually not. Keep the Gazette with it.

Do I need a new PAN after a name change?

No. The same PAN is corrected.

How long should I keep the Gazette copy?

For life.

Do passport annexures for a re-issue need a notary?

No. Since the Ministry of External Affairs' changes of December 2016, passport annexures are self-declarations on plain paper, with no attestation before a notary or magistrate.

Does hiding my old name on a passport form matter?

Yes. Section 12 of the Passports Act, 1967 makes it an offence to knowingly furnish false information or suppress material information to obtain a passport, punishable with up to two years' imprisonment, a fine up to Rs 5,000, or both. Declare the earlier name.

Can I move my Aadhaar address to my spouse's home without documents in my own name?

Yes. UIDAI's Head of Family based online address update accepts a proof of relationship, such as a marriage certificate, with the head of family's OTP approval. Read Aadhaar C/O name update.

What if Aadhaar refuses my update because I have used both name changes?

UIDAI's 2021 procedure says requests beyond the allowed chances are considered only through its exception handling process, decided by the regional office. For Uttarakhand, UIDAI lists its Delhi regional office.

Does my child need a birth certificate for a passport in my new name?

For a child born on or after 1 October 2023, the birth certificate is the only proof of date of birth the passport office accepts, under the Passports (Amendment) Rules, 2025. Read child passport name mismatch.

Is a marriage certificate needed with my passport after marriage?

No. The 2016 passport rules say married applicants need not provide Annexure K or any marriage certificate. A woman who changes her surname on marriage still shows the proof the re-issue list asks for.