Aadhaar Card New Rules 2026: UIDAI Issues SOP for Name and DOB Updates; Stricter Rules for Repeated Date of Birth Changes

Aadhaar Card New Rules 2026: Updated guidelines by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) for updates to the demographic details of Aadhaar include updates regarding name and date of birth (DoB). The authority released an updated SOP regarding name updates on September 18, 2026, whereas the framework for DoB update currently being followed is as per the SOP released in December 2025. Moreover, UIDAI also posted a corrigendum for the annexure of the DoB SOP on September 28, 2026.

These updates are important in order to ensure that any updates made to the demographic details which are highly sensitive are backed by proper documents. The importance of these rules lies in the fact that the Aadhaar card holders have already exhausted their updates for name or date of birth.

Aadhaar Card New Rules 2026: UIDAI Revises Name Update Process

UIDAI’s new SOP for Name Updates, released on September 18, 2026, supersedes the previous SOP of name update that was issued in 2021. This new SOP takes care of several aspects of name change and correction, which include, minor spelling or typing error, regional language mistakes, name change post marriage/divorce, gender-based changes and name change.

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Other issues covered under the new SOP include, name change without the use of any title/prefix, names of children and change in the use of terms like ‘urf’. There is distinction between a minor change and a major one and the documentation to be provided for both the cases will differ based on the type of request.

In accordance with the existing framework of update in UIDAI, a person holding Aadhaar number can usually update his/her name twice. After exhausting this limit of two name updates, any further name change shall be done using the exception process.

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