thecoolguysam said:
as your all IDs have your maiden name, just use that in order to apply for citizenship.
If your husband has his complete name on marriage certificate (including his surname) and you have your complete name on your marriage certificate (including your maiden surname), you can visit service canada office, drivers license office, health card office to get your last name changed to your husband's surname. I don't think so it will require any legal name change. Once your name on IDs get changed then apply for citizenship.
In canada, a woman can keep her maiden name or husband's last name as per her own discretion. Also if you want hyphenated names means your surname along with your husbands surname, then you might need legal name change done.
By the way what is your province?
That's what I thought, too, coolguy, but I notice this in the Citizenship application instructions:
"Name change
The name on the citizenship certificate will be the same as the one shown on your immigration document unless
you provide one of the following documents as proof of a change of name (in addition to or in combination with supporting identity documents as requested in section 3 above).
a copy of a legal change of name document, court order or adoption order issued by a civil authority in a province or territory of Canada; or a
marriage certificate, divorce decree, registration or declaration of union, or revocation of declaration or annulment of union
issued by a civil authority in a province or territory of Canada, showing your new name, unless you have been married in and are currently a resident of Quebec;"
This suggests that a marriage certificate from the Philippines may not be accepted.
However, I do agree that a LEGAL name change is ordinarily not necessary for a person (woman or man) to take his/her spouse's surname, or even to bear a hyphenated name (at least in Ontario). Things in Quebec are different, though, and everyone keeps their birth name.
