Citizenship Certificate
To change your name on your Citizenship Certificate, complete an Application for Citizenship Certificate for Children and Adults. With this application, you must submit two identical and unaltered Canadian passport-style photos taken within 12 months of the application.
If you have legally changed your name within Canada, submit a photocopy of your legal name change document (e.g. Certificate of Name Change).
If you have legally changed your name outside Canada, submit the following:
- a foreign passport or other national authoritative documentation amended to reflect your new name;
- a document that links your previous name to your new name (with an official translation if required); and
- a document in your new name issued by a Canadian province or territory (e.g. driver’s license, health card, age of majority card, senior citizen’s identification card, or social service card).
If you wish to change your gender marker on your citizenship certificate you must also complete a Request for Change of Gender Designation and submit it with a completed application form.
Note: Citizenship Cards are no longer issued.
Citizenship Records
Since June 4, 2019, individuals are able to request the “X” gender identifier printed on documents issued by IRCC. This includes Canadian passports and travel documents, citizenship certificates and permanent resident cards.
Temporary residents (TR) can be issued a TR document with an “X” gender identifier if the passport issued by their country has an “X” (or an equivalent, non-binary option) in the sex field.