I recall reading in the news in 2021 based on nadra that the practice of changing last name from father to husband on cnic after marriage has become optional for the girl, but a lot of people have informed me recently that girl's id card bearing father's name in Punjab for delivery purpose isnt accepted. Kindly share your recent experience from Punjab.
Delivery purpose? Explain please.
What is delivery purpose? Sehet Sahulat Program?
Childbirth, when the wife is admitted for delivery in the hospital.
Childbirth, not necessarily sehat sahulat program but admission of wife into any hospital for delivery.
Any private hospital doesn't need your wife's NIC. Government hospitals need only the name and NIC number. Only the Sehet Card hospitals need proper NIC and it's scanned copy.
Okay great, on another note if the wife wishes to retain her father's name on her NIC after marriage simply updating the marital status of husband and wife with nadra is sufficient?
changing name was always optional
both husband and wife need to get new id cards after shadikhandan number is made, family tree generated in system
Sufficient
won't recommend changing last name, it just causes unwanted problems with educational documents.
however, you need to go update your Martial Status and replace wife's Father Name field with Husband Name. Then get FRC made.
If the status is updated with NADRA, the last name does not matter.