The Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women

Name to Appear on Passports – 1972

  • RESET

Category:

LEGISLATION

Sub-Category:

GENERAL

Resolution Number:

600.10.14

Club:

Edmonton

Province:

Alberta

Year:

1972

Status:

Resolved

Background:

Comments:

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT BPW Canada requests the Federal Government to change its passport application forms in order to indicate that a married woman may obtain her passport in either her maiden surname or in the surname of her husband; andBE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT BPW Canada requests that Federal Government modify its policy so that a women need not apply for a new passport after marriage unless she wishes to obtain it in her husband’s surname.

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