Update your legal documents
In this section are guides for updating your legal identity documents yourself. If you are interested in updating your legal identity documents, you don’t need to do this in any particular order.
The cheapest way to updating your identity documents is to do the name change first, followed by other documents. This way, you won’t need to re-update the documents with a new name. A lot of people do their birth certificates last because the law requires a particular medical standard be reached.
If you are having trouble with banks or other organisations that require certain identity documents - you might want to consider updating your passport first - it is widely accepted as a strong proof of identity, and it is easy to change the gender marker to F, M or X.
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Changes to Name & Gender
How to change your name and Gender marker on legal documents.
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Passports
How to change your name and gender marker on your passport.
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Refugee Travel Documents
Travel documents for transgender refugees in Aotearoa
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Other Forms of Identification
Change your name and gender marker on other documents.
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Education
How to change your name at your place of study.
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Costs
Price list for new and replacement documents.