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Likely nothing: usually they’re laws which apply to parents / birth certificates.

I guess it’s possible that an immigrant trying to get naturalised would have to adopt a “legal” name for the country, but I’m not aware of any country where that’s a rule, aside from the Zairianisation movement of Mobutu.



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