Name and /or surname changing

General information
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Categories of applicants
Acts required for the changing
The terms and costs
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General information

Name and surname constitutes attributes that identify the concrete person in society and mandatory are inscribed into the civil status act, as well as in other official acts in accordance with the national legislation.

Name and/or surname may be changed in an administration way, by adopting the conclusion of the civil status office, which is approved by the Civil Status Service.

Name and/or surname could be changed in the following reasons:

Difficult pronunciation, if those consist of indecent expressions, lack of euphony, ridiculous, and if they have been transformed (corrupted) by translation;
Desire to have the name and/or surname corresponding to applicant nationality;
Requesting a simple name instead of a double name;
Persons desire to have husband’s name or to add her/his or husband’s name, in case if they do it in marriage;
Desire to return to the name until the marriage if they didn’t do it in divorce;
Desire to have stepfather’s or stepmother’s name or another person involved in the education of the applicant;
Cases based on name change are recognized those when the applicant has a different name from that which is registered in the birth act;
Other reasons if they will be well founded, which will be described in detail in the conclusion of the Office of civil Status.

Reasons that are not considered legal basis to change the name and/or surname:

Transition to ascending relatives name from that intend to inherit property;
Name and/or surname change from reasons related to the astrological interpretation;
Identification the intention to change the name and/surname for misure related to the visa violation, evade of maintenance or debts payments etc.

It is not permitted to change the name and/or surname in the following cases:

Applicant has chosen a name and/or surname that is difficult or ridiculous pronounced;
Applicant shall be prosecuted or has a criminal record and is not rehabilitated;
In result of name and/or surname change it will be composed of three names;
Applicant is a married person and the surname, which is asking to be changed, has the husband who refuses to request of surname changing;
Requesting name and /or surname transliterarea with Latin characters based on orthographical rules of a foreign language or using signs or accents.

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Solve steps

To change the name and /or surname you will go over the following steps:

Request application:

The request on name and/or surname change shall be submitted personal:

at the Office of civil status in whose territorial range you are domiciled;
if your residency is abroad at the Diplomatic missions or Consular offices of the Republic of , which will execute the request via postal services;
in case you live abroad and want your application to be emergency examined in base on attorney by the OCS you can address to Diplomatic missions or Consular offices of the Republic of , which will authenticate the your signature on the application and will draw up the attorney;

Request examination:

The Office of civil status, the Diplomatic mission (Consular office) examining your request, will draw up the dossier, will draw up the conclusion on name and/or surname changing and will send it to the Civil Status Service to be approved (approval period is for 15 working days, without taking into account the term of postal transmission).

Dossier approval:

The dossier examination may be executed on person’s request in an emergency by the Civil Status Service, in case of personal presentation to the Methodical Department and the dossier examination of the Civil Status Service on the Mihail Kogalniceanu, 58A Street

For an emergency dossier examination should be submitted the following documents:

Respective dossier sealed (in the envelope) as established;
Applicant’s identity card;
Proof of authorization (in case of representation): attorney, the contract proxy, mandate contract, service ticket that confirms protection authority or other authorized body, etc.
Payment fee of settled taxes.

Act registration of name and/or surname change:

OCS /diplomatic mission (consular office) receiving the conclusion will invite the applicant to register within 1 month of the name and/or surname changing act and issue to the applicant the certificate of changing.

In case of applicant absence to draw up the respective act within 1 month, the conclusion on name and/or surname change conclusion lapses validity.

If the reason of absence turned out to be based the expired term may be restored. Reinstatement on term to register the act of name and /or surname change will be examined on applicant request by the CSS.

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Categories of applicants

The following categories of applicants may request the name and /or surname changing:

Citizens of the Republic of who have reached the age of 16 years;
Note: the name and/or surname changing of a person who has not reached the age is solved with parents, adopters or guardian agreement, except the cases to obtain full exercise by the applicant until achieving the age, in the manner provided by the law.
Foreign citizens with acts registered at the civil status bodies from the Republic of .

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Acts required for the and /or surname change

Request on name and/or surname changing F-22
Autobiography;
Explication on reasons for name and/or surname changing
Applicant’s birth certificate
Birth certificates of minor children
Marriage certificate
Divorce certificate
Identity card or applicant passport
Two photographs, format 3x4
Notice, issued by the police in whose territorial range lives the applicant, the confirmation or invalidation the existence of criminal record
Payment fee of settled taxes.

in cases:

Parents, adopters or guardian written accord of the person who hasn’t reached the full age (16-18 years)
Proof of representation, attorney from abroad, contract
Copy of name and/or surname changing dossier, with the copy of civil status act draw up by the office of civil status after the 1992, placed on the territory of the self-proclaimed transnistrian republic, if the dossier was draw up in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of .
Other acts if necessary.

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The terms and costs

Examination the request on name and /or surname changing by the OCS (drawing up the dossier and sending it to be approved by the Civil Status Service)

Terms	Cost	State tax	Total cost
Ordinary:
60 days	free of charge	20 lei	20 lei
Emergency:
30 days	80 lei	20 lei	100 lei
15 days	240 lei	20 lei	260 lei
5 days	400 lei	20 lei	420 lei
24 hours	640 lei	20 lei	660 lei

Examination the request on name and / or surname changing presenting the attorney from abroad

Terms	Cost	State tax	Total cost
Ordinary:
30 days	200 lei	20 lei	220 lei
15 days	600 lei	20 lei	620 lei
5 days	1000 lei	20 lei	1020 lei
24 hours	1600 lei	20 lei	1620 lei

Restoring in terms the registration of name and/or surname changing act by the CSS

On the applying day – 50 lei

Examination the dossier on name and /or surname changing by the CSS

Important! The service tax is levied from applicant at the moment of application, regardless of the outcome of the examination.

Terms	Cost
Ordinary:
More than 15 days	free of charge
Emergency:
15 days	50 lei
5 days	100 lei
24 hours	150 lei
1 hour	250 lei

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Facilities*

Are exempt from the tariffs the following persons:

disabled of I, II and III group;
participants in the Second World War;
pensioners of age;
parents who have 3 and more children;
orphaned children;
participants in the liquidation of the consequences of the damage from Cernobyl;
citizens of the Republic of that participated in armed conflicts for the Republic of interest - 50 % of the total cost of service.
to citizens who repeat the requesting to be issued death certificate on behalf of repressed relatives and subsequently rehabilitated or to be substituted those issued previously.

* In accordance with Annex no. 3 at Classification and charges for services rendered by the Civil Status Service and offices of civil status (approved by Government Decision no. 738 of 20.06.2008 and published in the Official Gazette no. 112-114 of 27.06.2008).

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