So,my daughter is happily married for a year.They have already gone to a lawyer and paid $500 to change his Mum's first name from her "nickname" (a mistake at his birth certificate issuing,her name of course is on his certificate,to complicate it even worse her town of birht was wrong and the year (the Dad was doing all this and guessing while seh was having the baby in the hospital 27 years ago) It took 8 months and finally the lawyer got it done.Of course this name is also on their marriage certificate and although not a big deal they want everything perfect before they apply to Canada (they have been together 3 years, have proof ,live in DR...etc) my question is...can't we just go to Santo Domingo and go to vital statistics or whatever government thing they call it there and just get the paper fixed? Why were they told a lawyer? Maybe he just assumed a lawyer would be the only way. So I am going down in August and it would be great,so flippen great to just do this up and get it ready.It has not been easy financially for them let's just say and they are a young couple. so looking forward to any advice thanks