NAME UPDATE : Residents can update their name in Aadhaar through the existing process of enrolling by submitting valid document with slight modification as under.
  1. The existing practice of updation of Name, i.e., twice in a life time has been revised as under:
  2. The following cases shall not be counted as update request in terms of name update chances: i. A Resident is requesting for updating (correcting) his/her Name, which is to fix a typo mistake by an enrolment operator. ii. A resident requesting updating (correcting) his/her Name due to transliteration error. iii. Name update consequent to update of Regional Language of the resident. iv. ROs to initiate reprocess of such packets by forwarding such cases to Tech Centre with recommendation to reprocess the packet and not to count the update as a chance to update name. The resident shall be eligible for balance chances.
A detailed workflow depicting the procedure to handle the Name update requests are given at Annexure-I. Update requests beyond allowed chances will only be considered through the exception handling process.
3. Name update exception handling cases: In case of exhaustion of Name update chances, i.e., after exhausting the two chances, ROs may consider the request for Name update under exceptional handling, only if the following conditions are satisfied:- i. Common scenario wherein Name update is sought at ROs is in case of marriage/divorce/adoption related change. Under exception handling, resident will have to submit the marriage/divorce/adoption certificate and request shall be considered by RO. This document will be uploaded under PoI. ii. A resident may request to append/edit initials in name. For example: `person named as B I Hirani, would like to expand his first name or last name or both. In such cases, RO may verify if its in-line to the clarifications issued vide letter no. F. No. 4(4)/57/363/2018/UIDAIE&U-II (Vol. II) dated 30.09.2020(Attached) for Name update. iii. Resident update his/her name to change the sequence of the existing name: i.e. Rajesh Prasad Sharma requests to update his name as Prasad Rajesh Sharma.
 
iv. A few cases where a resident might seek complete name change request, like from Pankaj Kumar to Abhinay K Singh. In case of complete name change the Gazette Notification of name change to be uploaded as PoI document.
 
Process to be followed for i) For scenarios detailed in para 2 above, if the request is getting wrongly rejected during the process, the resident can raise the issue through any mode (directly to RO or through CRM by letter, mail or by calling 1947) and the concerned Regional Offices to reprocess the packet as per the process available for re-processing of wrongly rejected packets. If require, RO may instruct the resident to re-enroll with specific document and submit the EID for further process. ii) For Scenarios detailed in Para 3, a) Resident to enrol for Aadhaar update at the nearest enrolment centre with concerned document and intimate UIDAI through mail. In case the resident contacts through 1947, the resident should be advised to reenrol and submit the EID through mail. b) Once the request received at RO, the request to be verified with due diligence and to be packet to be processed as per the process available for re-processing of wrongly rejected packets.
 
iii. A detailed workflow depicting the procedure to handle the Name update requests in exception handling is as given at Annexure II.