{"id":678,"date":"2007-07-05T14:05:04","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T12:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/678"},"modified":"2010-05-24T22:30:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T20:30:23","slug":"changing-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/678","title":{"rendered":"Changing Names"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Today I am\u00a0FOADing the Canadian Embassy in\u00a0The Netherlands, and possibly the Dutch influence on them.\u00a0 \u00a0How friggin’ hard can it be to change your surname when you get married?!\u00a0 I mean, seriously!! These people make me insane!<\/p>\n

\"\"I’ve been trying to sort out a new passport because we are going back to Canada in October on holiday.\u00a0\u00a0 My old passport expired about 2 years ago and I haven’t bothered to renew it.\u00a0\u00a0 I never really needed it until now so it kept slipping my mind.<\/p>\n

I called the Canadian Embassy in Den Haag because I had to find out exactly what documents they needed and while I had them on the phone I asked what was needed for a married name change.<\/p>\n

The lady told me that in order to change the name on my passport to say my married name instead of my maiden name I had to provide them with a photo identification with my married name on it.\u00a0 Sounds simple enough… or so you’d think.<\/p>\n

The problem is, any time I’ve tried to get any ID’s with my married name on it, they tell me that I need to have that name on my passport!\u00a0 So in order to get my name changed on my passport, I have to have it changed on a photo ID, but to have it changed on a photo ID it needs to be changed on my passport.<\/p>\n

So now I can’t figure out how the heck I’m meant to change my name?\u00a0 Why does the simplest thing have to be so damn difficult?!!<\/p>\n

For a minute I was about to slip into one of those ‘This fucking country and their….’ rants but this is the Canadian <\/em>embassy with Canadian<\/em> rules.\u00a0 So I can’t even blame the Dutch for this one.\u00a0 UNLESS it has something to do with Dutch rules they have to follow, I bet that’s it.\u00a0\u00a0 I bet it’s not that hard to change your name on your passport in Canada.\u00a0 I’m going to investigate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I am\u00a0FOADing the Canadian Embassy in\u00a0The Netherlands, and possibly the Dutch influence on them.\u00a0 \u00a0How friggin’ hard can it be to change your surname when you get married?!\u00a0 I mean, seriously!! These people make me insane! I’ve been trying to sort out a new passport because we are going back to Canada in October …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[54,26,90,162,33],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-tantrums-rants","tag-dutch","tag-foad-thursday","tag-idiots","tag-marriage","tag-netherlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4633,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/4633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}