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I recently did a deed poll to change my nric name. Man i tell ya, the hassles that come along with a new nric name is HORRENDOUS.
Well, 1st, you gotta do a deed poll at a law firm. That takes time and costs money. And then, you gotta bring you old nric and the deed poll to ICA to do a NEW nric with your new name. Again it takes more time & costs more money. Not to forget you got to spend $ to get a new picture for your new nric too. The good thing is very likely you can get your new ic on the same day.
But now comes the real troublesome part. Your new nric renders all your passports invalid. For whatever passports you have, you got to get them all replaced with new ones. Nope, ICA does not have a policy to replace your new passport And yes, that costs MUCH more time (A week's waiting time and hours of queue to get your turn) and even costs EXTRA money ~~~ 70 bucks for EACH passport.
Now i've spent like 2 weeks and about 300 bucks to get all these crap done, which was already a TERRIFYING ORDEAL to behold, who knows one week later I got a call out of nowhere from some junior ICA officer for me to bring back my passport to ICA cos of a technical glitch.
i went there and there were a lot of other pple who got called over. They took my passport made me wait a good 30 mins. Then later told me they checked my passport thoroughly and found NO PROBLEM.
I asked them what was the issue that made it necessary to come down, but they refused to give me any reason. What The Hell ? You asked me to come over to burn my lunch hour away just for NO REASON?
They gave me a pathetic keychain for my effort. Hey please, that cheapo keychain of yours I can get it anywhere ok?
Only later after reading online did I discover all this was due to a printing glitch.
This is UNFORGIVABLE !! Dont you do enough checks & screenings before issuing a passport which by all means is the MOST IMPORTANT document a person carries?
( I consider passport more important than the IC )
If a passport is not deemed *security-check* free, what dah hell do you even issue it in the first place?
This is really incompetence and a big SCREW Up on ICA's part !!
And not a thousand sorries or a miserable tinnie-winnie keychain's gonna make up for the time and effort by the people !!
I am sooooo gonna write a strong WORDED letter to express my utter disatisfaction with their botched up administraton and processes.
it's not just you who faced this passport glitch
Why change name in the first place?
Not easy to change a name.
For security reason, they have to thoroughly check all yr particulars.
Supposing you are in charge of the changing of names of a person nric.
Will you check and screen thru the particulars or just issue?
Originally posted by likeyou:Supposing you are in charge of the changing of names of a person nric.
Will you check and screen thru the particulars or just issue?
The issue is NOT a problem with nric, but the passport lah.
DUH ~~~~ !!