Immigrants bearing difficult to say or spell names are opting for the more traditional Smith or Jones surname while Arabic names such as Karim and Muhammad are being changed to Kevin and Michael, according to The Legal Deed Service, the UK’s premier online provider of Deed Polls.
About 70,000 people are expected to change their name using deed poll services like The Legal Deed Service this year, compared to in 2001, the number of such people was fewer than 20,000.
Even Chinese people have anglicised their names by adding prefixes such as John, Jason and Sue. In one instance, a refugee from Uzbekistan called Avlar Jon Akherov became Adrian Barry Roberts. In another case, a young Polish woman with an 18-letter surname opted for the brevity of one of Britain's most common names - Hall.
Jamie Jackson, Chief Executive of the Legal Deed Service, explains: “With an increasing number of people wanting to change their names via deed poll for all manner of reasons, from the legal to the fun, we wanted to replace the bureaucratic red tape with a simple four-step process, while keeping the cost low and offering free value-added services”.
Not all names are changed by those who want to fit in. In the past few months, The Legal Deed Service recently had a restaurant owner change name to Gordon Ramsey, sound familiar?
Whatever your reasons for considering changing your name The Legal Deed Service ensures that the process is both quick and great value. In only four swift steps, and with the fee starting at only £10 for a standard adult deed poll change, you will have official proof of your new name delivered to your inbox in only three hours with the printed deed poll sent to you within 24 hours.
To find out more about the four-step process, go to www.thelegaldeedservice.org.uk.
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