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When completing your online form, one of the first steps will be to provide your full name history. 

This section only requires you to provide us with legal names. You do not need to provide any names you did not legally change to (for example, nicknames).

This will need to cover your entire life. 

To begin with, you will need to provide your full current name. 


If you previously completed the Digital ID section (where you were asked to scan your ID documents) this will likely already be pre-populated for you, and you will not be able to edit this.

Next, you will need to select whether you have been known by any previous names. 

By clicking yes, you will now be prompted to provide the date from which you changed to your current name. 

Additionally, you will have the option to add any previous names below this. 

Similar to how you added your current name, you'll need to add the full previous name, along with the date you started using this name and the date you stopped using this name.

To add any further names, you will need to click '+ Add another name' and follow the same steps. 

Please ensure that you have provided all of your previous names, from birth to current. 

The form will not allow any gaps between these names, so you'll need to ensure that the dates are in a timeline order. 

We recommend adding these in order, to help avoid any mistakes. 

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