Launching soon
Two new documents, for the two things a deed poll can’t do
A deed poll changes your name from the day you sign it. That leaves two situations it has never been able to help with — a change you made years ago, and a name that never changed at all. We’re about to open both.
Retrospective Deed Poll
For a name you changed years ago, with nothing drawn up at the time.
You started using a new name — on marriage, on arriving in the UK, or simply through years of use — and no paperwork was ever made. A deed poll signed today cannot evidence that, because it renounces your old name today; HM Passport Office accepts a deed only where it was made at the time of the change.
The pack: a retrospective deed, a statutory declaration of name history sworn before a solicitor, and an evidence checklist. Posted free by Royal Mail Tracked 24.
Name Discrepancy Declaration
For when your name never changed — your documents just disagree.
One name, recorded differently by different offices: a spelling variant, an anglicised form, a missing middle name, a forename and surname the wrong way round. Nothing was ever given up, so there is nothing for a deed poll to renounce.
What you get: a sworn declaration that the different versions all refer to one and the same person — two printed originals, posted free. You pay the statutory fee at the commissioner when you swear it.