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Need urgent help:CEC: Wife's name different on Passport & birth certificate

chacks

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Mar 31, 2013
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Hi All, I need urgent help/info. Any help is much appreciated. I am in the verge of CEC application & I am the primary applicant. I am an Indian. I need a calcification on my wife's details. My wife's Surname is different in birth certificate/10th marks sheet and passport. She applied for passport after marriage so the surname on the passport is different from her birth certificate. Now I want to know is it ok to submit her birth certificate & passport copy (though surname is different in birth certificate and passport) for CEC application?. Is there any afidevit needs to get it?. Please advise on this asap.
Also, please advise, I want to put my wife's name as per passport. please let me know what else I need to do to make this happen.
 

astasi

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Jun 12, 2010
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6313
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13-07-2014
AOR Received.
19-09-2014
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23-03-2015
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30-07-2014
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Hi Chacks,

I am in the same situation. Could you please advise how you resolved this issue?

Thanks in advance.
 

decentgurl

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Nov 1, 2013
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i suggest u use what is on your wife's passport, but you have to declare it on the background information form where they ask: have you used any other name (e.g. nickname, maiden name, alias, etc)? you don't have to worry (as in my case) about any affidavit as you have to submit a copy of marriage certificate, passport, and birth certificate. Good luck. Hope this help.
 

gill656

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Jan 31, 2013
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decentgurl said:
i suggest u use what is on your wife's passport, but you have to declare it on the background information form where they ask: have you used any other name (e.g. nickname, maiden name, alias, etc)? you don't have to worry (as in my case) about any affidavit as you have to submit a copy of marriage certificate, passport, and birth certificate. Good luck. Hope this help.
Hi Decentgurl,
I have kind of same problem. I don't have last name on my documents and i applied cec with my first name only and for the question" have you ever used other name" i answered NO. After i applied, i find out that during an incident, my family name was used. That family name is not official but someone suggest me that i had to inform about it.Is it possible, i can change the answer after I get my AOR. That is the only stress i have regarding my application. Please suggest something.
 

squishyface

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Jun 10, 2013
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Pre-Assessed..
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21-01-2013
AOR Received.
28-02-2013
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26-11-2013
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visa exempt
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gill656 said:
Hi Decentgurl,
I have kind of same problem. I don't have last name on my documents and i applied cec with my first name only and for the question" have you ever used other name" i answered NO. After i applied, i find out that during an incident, my family name was used. That family name is not official but someone suggest me that i had to inform about it.Is it possible, i can change the answer after I get my AOR. That is the only stress i have regarding my application. Please suggest something.
Can you elaborate more on your last name being unofficial and why you did not put your last name on your application?
I do not want to sound ignorant and would like to understand your situation better.
 

BigBee

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Oct 10, 2013
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AFAIK, you have to mention the surname as it appears in the passport, in the application form, next to the surname, it does ask for "other name(s) used", there, you should mention the surname as mentioned in the birth certificate.

I have applied like this and there is no issues with that (though I have only received AOR, but have done OWP-S in the past)
 

CECFEB2013

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Mar 11, 2013
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You can use the same birth certificate and passport - no issues.

In the CEC Application form IMM-0008-ENU, Q2 - Have you ever used any other name (e.g., nick name, maiden name, alias etc)?

Select Yes, and write her first name and old last name. That would do.
 

BigBee

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Oct 10, 2013
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CECFEB2013 said:
You can use the same birth certificate and passport - no issues.

In the CEC Application form IMM-0008-ENU, Q2 - Have you ever used any other name (e.g., nick name, maiden name, alias etc)?

Select Yes, and write her first name and old last name. That would do.
Perfect... thats exactly what I was trying to state..... :)
 

gill656

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Jan 31, 2013
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squishyface said:
Can you elaborate more on your last name being unofficial and why you did not put your last name on your application?
I do not want to sound ignorant and would like to understand your situation better.
So here, what it is.
My name is sumit gill. But on my academic certificate, passport and all official documents, my name is sumit. I don't have any last name. But my friends and relatives knows that i have family name gill. But it is not used on any of my documents. During an accident, when my friend reported incident, he notified my name as sumit gill.
Now, i went for police clearance for my job purposes, they said there was a incident said that gill was used as my last name. On that clearance document, they filled gill under the question " othet last name used. They didn't filled any last name. But they stated that other family name used was gill.
But on my cec application, i didn't put any other name.
 

ruchiraset

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Dec 30, 2013
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Hi - I am having the same issue, could you guys please suggest if any other document is required here?
Or i would have to just mention wife's name in the CEC Application form IMM-0008-ENU, Q2 - Have you ever used any other name (e.g., nick name, maiden name, alias etc)?

your Reply will be highly Appreciated.

Thanks
 

prettykite

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Jan 26, 2014
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Hi question i am the spouse of the principal applicant in my birth certificate my father place of birth is written bataan but in the addional fam info and background declaration i write my father place of birth was sampaloc manila but same here in the country of philippines but in my father birth cert his place was really in sampaloc manila not bataan is that okay with cic im not the principal applicant only his dependent
 

Dr_Midnite

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Jun 9, 2014
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Ottawa
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0016
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02-01-2014
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21-03-2014
AOR Received.
19-02-2014
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With Application
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31-07-2014
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15-11-2014
Hi

This should be simple; your current married name is your current name and is being used on passports. By default it will be different from your Birth Certificate as you change your name when you marry, this is common in most cultures. The current (Married) name should be that used on the application.

As others have highlighted, in the CEC Application form IMM-0008-ENU, Q2 which asks have you ever used any other name (e.g., nick name, maiden name, alias etc)? You should select yes, here you write any other names you have used since Birth!

For the specific question regards fathers place of birth, you need to put in the place of birth that is on the official Birth Certificate. CIC will pick-up on any discrepancy where documents do not tie up to the application forms. This may delay the process.

For the person with only one name, what does your Birth Certificate state as your name?

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prettykite

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Jan 26, 2014
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Dr_midnite thanks for the info my husband is fsw may this different info resluts to rejection actually in my birth cert my mother was the one who fill up my birth cert by handwriting and we only found out that my fathers birth place was wrong by my mom but im only the principal applicant dependent i just write the exact town in thr background and additional fam info sheet which is sampaloc but still same country of birth can we just submit my father birth cert for correction and support
 

Nav23

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Jun 13, 2014
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Visa Office......
Ottawa
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
20th sept 2013
Doc's Request.
3rdmarch 2014
Med's Request
12th april 2014
Med's Done....
14th april 2014
Interview........
Waived
Passport Req..
2nd july 2014(sent today itself)
No issues..even mine was the same case.i have applied and even got passport req