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Jun 08, 2013 News
Attorney at Law, Charles S. Ramson, has said that the decision of the relevant functionaries at the Passport Office to not issue passports to any applicant who has changed his/her name by way of Deed Poll is unlawful.
The lawyer has expressed his disquiet upon learning that a number of applicants who have sought to be issued with a new passport under their new name; after having duly changed their name via Deed Poll had been refused.
Ramson says that when he asked for a reason to be provided for the refusal, the relevant functionaries have said that a number of persons of Guyanese nationality have either been deported from or have committed offences in other countries and returning to Guyana to change their name and be issued with a new passport in their new name and travelling once again under that veil of anonymity.
Ramson said that while he realises that this is indeed a possibility, a citizen of Guyana is entitled to change his/her name to a name of his/her own choosing. Once he/she duly changes his/her name under the provisions of the laws of Guyana he/she is also entitled to be issued with all national identification documents in whatever name he/she so chooses.
The Attorney said that until the legislators have changed the law in relation to the legal entitlement of a person to change his or her name then this decision is unlawful and a denial of their right.
He also suggested that a possible solution to the quagmire is to just include the former name on the passport under the caption “formerly known as” so the history and record, criminal or otherwise, of any Guyanese travelling to a different country can still be captured in the system of that foreign country.
The Attorney says that if this policy decision is not changed forthwith then he, on the applicant’s behalf, may be compelled to take appropriate legal action.
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