Quick answer: Any notary in Lucknow can attest your affidavit and the stamp is worth the same everywhere. Go to the Kaiserbagh court area anyway if you can, because the stamp paper vendor, the typist and the photocopy shop are all in the same few lanes, and a name change affidavit usually needs all three. Take the exact spellings written down, your identity proof, and know what you want the affidavit to say before you arrive.
People search for a notary as though finding one is the hard part. In a city this size it is not. What actually goes wrong is arriving with the wrong wording, or without stamp paper, and having to come back.
At a Glance
| Where notaries sit | All over the city |
| Densest area | Kaiserbagh, around the courts |
| Court address | District and Sessions Court, Kaisarbagh 226001 |
| Also found in | Aliganj, Alambagh, Rajajipuram, Balaganj |
| Nearest metro | Hazratganj and KD Singh Babu Stadium |
| Validity | The same wherever you go |
| Why the court area | Stamp paper, typists, photocopiers together |
| What decides quality | The wording, not the stamp |
Key Takeaways
- A notary's stamp is equally valid anywhere in Lucknow.
- The court area is worth the trip for everything around it.
- A notary attests that you swore it, not that it is true.
- So the wording is your responsibility, not theirs.
- Take the exact spellings written down before you go.
What to Take: Quick Facts
| Both spellings, written out | Exactly as each document has them |
| Class 10 marksheet | The document the affidavit cites |
| Aadhaar | Identity at the desk |
| The document number | Passport, policy, folio, whichever applies |
| Cash | Small amounts, and not every stall takes cards |
| A printed draft | If you have one, which saves the typist |
| Photographs | Some offices ask for them later |
| Photocopies | Made on the spot, cheaply |
Table of Contents
- Any notary is valid
- So why Kaiserbagh
- What a notary does not do
- The wording is yours
- Making one trip of it
- Stamp paper, plainly
- Central Gazette: the complete process and file format
- Areas we serve
- Key terms
- Related guides
- Why choose our office
- FAQs
Any Notary Is Valid
People assume proximity to a court somehow adds weight. It does not. What proximity to a court adds is convenience, and on a day when you need three separate things done, convenience is the whole argument.
So Why Kaiserbagh
- The District and Sessions Court sits at Kaisarbagh, with the civil court blocks and the bar association on the same premises.
- Stamp paper vendors are concentrated there, which is the item people most often arrive without.
- Typists work in the same lanes, so an affidavit can be drafted, typed and printed in one place.
- Photocopy shops are next door, which matters because every office you visit afterwards keeps copies.
- And Hazratganj and KD Singh Babu Stadium metro stations are close, which makes it reachable without parking.
What a Notary Does Not Do
| What people assume | What actually happens |
|---|---|
| The notary verifies the facts | They attest that you swore to them |
| The stamp makes it true | The stamp records that you said it |
| They will spot a mistake | They are not checking your spelling |
| They know what your office wants | They do not; that is your homework |
| A wrong affidavit gets refused there | It gets refused later, by somebody else |
What the affidavit should actually say, and the stamp paper values used in Uttar Pradesh, are on our affidavit guide.
The Wording Is Yours
Write both spellings down before you leave home
Exactly as each document has them, letter by letter, rather than from memory.
Decide which document the affidavit will cite
Usually the Class 10 marksheet, with its roll number and board, because that is what makes it checkable.
Name the specific record being corrected
A passport number, a policy number, a folio, a khasra: whatever the affidavit is about.
Say plainly that both names are one person
That single sentence is what the whole document exists to carry.
Read it before signing, slowly
A typist working fast will transpose a letter, and that is the one place it must not happen.
Then swear it
Which takes minutes once everything above is settled.
An affidavit that names a checkable document and a specific record is worth several that say only that you are known by two names.
Making One Trip of It
- Go on a working morning rather than late afternoon, since typists and vendors keep court hours rather than shop hours.
- Take cash in small notes, because stamp paper, typing and copies are all small separate payments.
- Get more photocopies than you need, while you are standing next to a machine that costs almost nothing.
- Photograph the signed affidavit before you leave, so a copy exists on your phone from that moment.
- And keep the original flat, since folded affidavits look worse at counters than they should.
Court days, holidays and vacation periods change how busy the area is. Nothing about the affidavit changes, but the queue does.
Stamp Paper, Plainly
That figure surprises people who have been quoted much more. It is a small job. What it costs in practice is the trip and the care taken over the wording.
Central Gazette: the Complete Process and File Format
Our core service: the affidavit sworn in Lucknow is stage one of the gazette file. Here is the whole route from our chamber.
Stage 1: The affidavit
Take this wording with you. A typist working from a page rather than from a description makes fewer mistakes, and the fifteen minutes it saves is fifteen minutes of standing in a lane.
Stage 2: The Public Notice, in two copies
Each witness gives signature, full name and address, and both sign both copies at one sitting. Get this typed on the same visit, since you are already standing next to a typist.
Stage 3: The CD and CD-Certificate
Stage 4: Newspapers, fee, covering letter and dispatch
Publish in two newspapers and buy six copies
A Hindi daily of your district and an English paper, complete original pages.
Pay Rs 1,100 on BharatKosh
With the function head, PAO and DDO checked and two receipts printed.
Write the covering letter
To The Controller, Publication Department, Civil Line, Delhi 110054, with your mobile number and email.
Assemble, check and photocopy
A full copy set kept at home.
Courier it, tracked
One to two days from Lucknow to Delhi in normal course.
Then Aadhaar, and outwards from there
Everything else compares against it.
Do Everything Typed in One Sitting
Witnesses can sign the Public Notice at home afterwards, so their absence is not a reason to leave it untyped.
Gazette Fees, Time and the File
| Stamp paper and notary | Usually Rs 100 to 500 together |
| Typing | Small, per page |
| Photocopies | A few rupees, buy plenty |
| Adult gazette fee | Rs 1,100 |
| Newspapers | A few hundred rupees per paper |
| Courier to Delhi | A couple of hundred rupees |
| Our service | Basic from Rs 999, Complete from Rs 1,999, quoted separately |
The envelope in one line: covering letter with your phone and email, affidavit (notarised), Public Notice typed in two copies with two witnesses on each, CD in MS-Word format with the signed CD-Certificate, both complete newspaper pages, photo identity proof, address proof, photographs and the BharatKosh receipt.
Before You Go: Check These
- Have you written both spellings out, letter by letter?
- Do you know which document the affidavit will cite?
- Are you getting all four papers typed, not just the affidavit?
- Do you have cash in small notes?
After the Gazette: What Updates Next
Aadhaar first, then everything that compares against it. Keep the affidavit permanently rather than treating it as spent once the gazette arrives, because counters ask for it again for years afterwards.
What Other Websites Get Wrong
- Wrong: you need a notary near the court. Right: any notary in the city is equally valid.
- Wrong: the court area gives the affidavit authority. Right: it gives you stamp paper, a typist and a photocopier in one lane.
- Wrong: the notary checks what you wrote. Right: they attest that you swore it; the wording is your responsibility.
- Wrong: get the affidavit, then arrange the rest. Right: get all four papers typed in one sitting.
- Wrong: affidavits are expensive. Right: stamp paper and notary together usually run Rs 100 to 500.
Areas We Serve in Uttar Pradesh
Every district has notaries around its own court, so this pattern repeats across the state. Across all 75 districts, most often these:
| Purvanchal and eastern UP | Varanasi, Prayagraj, Gorakhpur, Azamgarh, Jaunpur, Ballia, Deoria, Mirzapur, Basti, Ghazipur, Mau, Sonbhadra |
| Western UP and NCR | Noida, Greater Noida, Ghaziabad, Meerut, Agra, Aligarh, Mathura, Bulandshahr, Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur, Hapur, Firozabad |
| Rohilkhand and Bundelkhand | Bareilly, Moradabad, Rampur, Shahjahanpur, Budaun, Pilibhit, Bijnor, Amroha, Jhansi, Banda, Mahoba, Chitrakoot |
| Awadh and central UP | Lucknow, Kanpur, Unnao, Raebareli, Sitapur, Hardoi, Barabanki, Lakhimpur Kheri, Sultanpur, Ayodhya, Amethi, Bahraich |
Wherever you are, the rule is the same: the notary is not the variable, the wording is, and the court area is where the stamp paper and the typist happen to sit together. Our chamber is at Chamber No. 19, Sadar Tehsil, Sector 5, Gomti Nagar Vistar, Lucknow 226010, with the city guide on our Lucknow page. Call 9540003316 or WhatsApp 9540005002 from any district.
Key Terms on This Page
Plain definitions for the words that come up at the counter:
- CD-Certificate
- A short signed declaration that the text on the CD matches the printed copy in a gazette file.
- Public Notice
- The typed declaration filed with a gazette application, signed by you and witnessed by two people who give their full name and address.
- Attestation
- Confirming that a copy matches an original, or that a signature was made in front of the person confirming it.
- Stamp paper
- Government-issued paper carrying a duty value, used for affidavits and similar declarations.
- Notary Public
- An officer who attests that a document was signed in front of them. They verify the signature, not the facts written above it.
- Affidavit
- A statement you swear is true, signed before a notary on stamp paper. The notary confirms you signed it, not that the contents are true.
Related Guides on This Site
Whichever counter you reach next, there is a guide for it here:
- name change in Lucknow: the city guide, and where else things sit.
- the affidavit guide: wording, stamp paper values and formats.
- passport at PSK Lucknow: the other Lucknow counter that reads this affidavit.
- the gazette guide: what the affidavit is stage one of.
- newspaper advertisements: the stage that follows.
- the master document list: what the affidavit sits alongside.
- two names in different documents: when an affidavit alone is the answer.
- affidavit, newspaper or gazette: what each one actually establishes.
- correction versus change: which wording your case needs.
- what it costs: every stage, priced.
- contact the office: Lucknow chamber, phone and WhatsApp.
- Aadhaar in Lucknow: a name update needs you in a chair.
- the gazette from Lucknow: there is no Central counter in the city.
- after marriage in Lucknow: a wedding leaves papers in two districts.
Why We Send Wording, Not Directions
People ask us which notary to use in Lucknow and we send them the text of the affidavit instead. The notary is genuinely not the variable here: any of them will do the job in ten minutes. What decides whether the affidavit works is what it says, which document it cites, and whether it names the specific record being corrected. Get that right and the nearest notary to your house is fine. Vipin Chauhan, B.Tech LL.B, worries about the paragraph, not the postcode.
- We draft before anybody travels: since a typist works better from a page.
- We name a checkable document in it: usually the marksheet, with roll number.
- We get all four papers typed together: not the affidavit alone.
- We keep a copy permanently: because it gets asked for again.
Associate office at Chamber No. 19, Sadar Tehsil, Sector 5, Gomti Nagar Vistar, Lucknow 226010, serving all 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh, Monday to Saturday, 10 AM to 6:30 PM. Call 9540003316 or WhatsApp 9540005002.
Get the Wording First
Uttar Pradesh Name Change
Associate Office: Chamber No. 19, Sadar Tehsil, Sector 5, Gomti Nagar Vistar, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226010
Head Office: Metro Pillar 337, Hardev Nagar, Street 1, Shop No 1 (Shri Sham Documentation)
Call: 9540003316
WhatsApp: 9540005002
Email: info@uttarpradeshnamechange.com
Hours: Mon to Sat, 10 AM to 6:30 PM
Send both spellings exactly as your documents have them, and tell us which record is being corrected. We will send back the text to hand the typist.
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Notary in Lucknow: FAQs
Does it matter which notary I use?
No. A notary's attestation is equally valid anywhere in Lucknow, and no office will ask which part of the city it was sworn in.
Then why do people go to Kaiserbagh?
Because the stamp paper vendors, typists and photocopy shops are all in the same few lanes as the courts, and a name change affidavit needs all three.
Where exactly are the courts?
The District and Sessions Court is at Kaisarbagh, Lucknow 226001, with the civil court blocks and the bar association on the same premises.
How do I get there without driving?
Hazratganj and KD Singh Babu Stadium metro stations are both close to the area.
Are there notaries elsewhere in the city?
Yes, across Aliganj, Alambagh, Rajajipuram, Balaganj and other areas. If you have everything else ready, the nearest one is fine.
Will the notary check my affidavit?
No. They attest that you swore to it. They are not checking your spelling or whether the wording suits the office you are preparing for.
So who catches a mistake?
Nobody, until the counter you were preparing for reads it weeks later. The wording is your responsibility.
What should the affidavit cite?
Usually your Class 10 marksheet with its roll number and board, because that makes the statement checkable, plus the specific record being corrected.
What does it cost?
Stamp paper and notary together usually run somewhere between Rs 100 and Rs 500.
Can I use old stamp paper from home?
Better not to. Buying it the same day avoids questions that are easier not to invite.
What else should I get typed while I am there?
The Public Notice in two copies, the CD-Certificate and the covering letter. All four are short and all four are needed.
Do witnesses have to come with me?
No. They sign the Public Notice, and that can be done at home afterwards, so their absence is no reason to leave it untyped.
Official Sources
- District and Sessions Court Lucknow at lucknow.dcourts.gov.in, Kaisarbagh, Lucknow 226001.
- Notarial practice in Uttar Pradesh governing attestation of affidavits.
- Stamp duty arrangements for non-judicial stamp paper in Uttar Pradesh.
- Department of Publication requirements for the affidavit within a gazette file.
Facts here are checked against these sources and our own casework in Lucknow. Court timings, vendor arrangements and stamp values change from time to time, so confirm locally rather than relying only on this page.
The Short Version
A notary in Lucknow is a notary in Lucknow. A stamp from Aliganj is worth exactly what a stamp from the court area is worth, and no office anywhere will ask which part of the city your affidavit was sworn in. So the reason people go to Kaiserbagh is not authority, it is adjacency: the stamp paper vendors, the typists and the photocopy shops are all within a few minutes of the courts, and a name change affidavit needs all three. Which leads to the thing actually worth knowing. A notary attests that you swore to the contents; they do not check them. They will stamp a badly worded affidavit exactly as readily as a good one, and the error surfaces weeks later at the passport counter or the Tehsil. The stamp is not quality control. Write both spellings out before you leave home, decide which document the affidavit will cite, and get all four papers typed in one sitting.