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Fill out Form SS-5, print it, then mail or hand-deliver it to a nearby SSA office. Also bring along: Your legal name change document (wedding certificate or name change court order) Proof of identity (your current state ID or driver's license, for example)
Affidavit. Seek the help of a local notary to make an affidavit for name change. Publish in newspaper. Next, you need to publish the change of name in at least two local newspaper. Gazette notification. Verification. Approval.
Legal name change was once done via Deed Poll, however this changed in 1995 when the process of name change was streamlined. Legal name change now occurs via Statutory Declaration and is administrated by Births, Deaths and Marriages.
Deed poll is a legal way of getting evidence of a name change but it does not change the name on a birth certificate. If your child's name is changed by deed poll you will need to show this document as well as their birth certificate to prove their identity.