If your name has changed

To be served at a driver licensing office, you need to bring two pieces of accepted ID. If your name has changed, you also need to show proof of this change.

A marriage certificate or a legal name-change certificate may be used as proof of a change in your name.

Important: Passports cannot be used as proof to change your name.

If your name has changed more than once

In this case, you need to provide "linking documents" that show every change of your name.

Acceptable linking documents are:

• a marriage certificate
• a legal name-change certificate
• a divorce certificate that includes both your married name and your previous name, or
• a court order, stamped by the court registry.

Important: Passports cannot be used as "linking documents".

Photocopies

Important: All identification must be original documents.

We accept a photocopy only when it is certified (stamped) as a true copy of the original document by the government agency that issued it.

Learn more about our ID requirements »