Further ID escapades.

[agoodwinsmith]

So, I had put off updating my ID because I currently have the haircut from heck, and I wanted to get another done before the driver's licence people took a new picture.  I'm not ready for the haircut because I need it to get long enough that it will be a clean slate for my hairdresser (long story).  And then I got a bug in my hat and decided I wanted to at least get my SIN card done.  So I looked up the rules.  I need a birth certificate in order to update my SIN - but I had to turn in my birth certificate to the name-change people, so now I don't have one.  So I looked up the rules.  In Alberta, I need to send a copy of the name change doc, and a copy of my driver's licence.  So, I went in and paid the money, and was ready to present my best side - and they didn't want a new picture (because it gets renewed in 2009 anyway), but they did want a new signature.  Since I started signing with an illegible squiggle in imitation of my father, when I started using Goodwin-Smith, I just kept my illegible squiggle, since I could tell you I was signing "Mrs. Smith" and you wouldn't be able to tell that I wasn't.  So my new licence (when mailed) will have my new name, my old picture, and my new old signature.  Go team go.

I still think it is silly that my birth certificate name will change.

Comments

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

Birth Certificates are primary identity documents. All else is based upon them, I discover. So when you're playing administrivia you needs must begin with the birth certificate. Grrrrr.

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

And every province has their own kooky little procedures. And if you wait a week the procedures will change again.