Names with Tilde (~)

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rjmco

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Names with Tilde (~) on top of the letter n for example:

Castaneda
Pena
Tano

How will you write or spell it if a tilde is not recognized in the English alphabet? Will it be a problem to write your name with or without the tilde?
 
You can write it with tilde..keyboards are universal these days so USCIS should be able to print it out on certificate.
 
rjmco said:
Names with Tilde (~) on top of the letter n for example:

Castaneda
Pena
Tano

How will you write or spell it if a tilde is not recognized in the English alphabet? Will it be a problem to write your name with or without the tilde?
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My last name uses a tilde....when I filed for my green card I included it but USCIS just changed it to "n"...no big deal to me, it's a different last name now, it kind of sounds italian without the "ñ"

Guacho.
 
One day I was driving down highway 280 with the family when I saw a sign that said Canada Rd, and I thought that's funny, an homage to our northern neighbor :) However a short distance down the road there was another sign that said Cañada Rd or Cañada College, I'm not sure. That changes things quite a bit. I've noticed a tilde revival, check for Cañada or Canada college on the Internet. If I were you I would politely insist in getting the tilde included. You might want to write a cover letter. In this day an age, as Bobsmyth points out, computers can print any character easily. Anyway, it's an uphill battle. The computer revolution is primarily an English speaking revolution and for many years accents and tildes have been removed from names. I'm afraid you'll have to live with variations of your name. I always found bad whenever they misspelled and mispronounced the secretary of transportation name: "Federico Peña". Peña and Pena don't mean the same thing in Spanish.
 
The University that I studied in back in India took it on themselves to "correct" the names of their students and issue certificates with the names of the students spelled differently (sometimes significantly different). This was due to some idiot university administrator many years back who introduced a policy about correct spellings of Indian names.

This became an issue for me occassionally in the US, when I had to explain that the two names (one on the certificate and one on the passport) are actually the same. Thankfully the N400 process does not ask for educational certificates, else I would have been hassled once again.
 
My name has a tilde (~) on n and I wonder if I don't use it anymore, will it be a problem in the future or does it matter?
 
Nope, so far so good! In our country, I always spell it with the tilde but I notice when I came here people never spell it with a tilde, so tilde or not are they the same?
 
For me they are not the same, as it is not the same Cano and Caño, but in practical terms it is pretty common in the US that the tilde is lost. It's up to you. I don't know if they would issue a US passport with tilde or accents. I'm not sure if they would do this even in other countries. Does your country of origin passport include the tilde both in the biographic data and on the machine readable section at the bottom of the photo page? I'm not sure whether the machine readable section admits any kind of symbols on top of characters that includes ^öóñ and others.

How is it currently spelled in your Green Card? I mean, ñ or n?
 
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The passport from my country of origin is just handwritten with the tilde. On my Green Card it is just my middle initial on it. The tilde I'm talking about is with my middle name.
 
Other choice you might have is that if it is in your middle name I assume it is your second last name. Some people in that case drop their second last name (which would end up as middle name) and just go by first name and last name. Anyway, I'm pretty sure writing it with ñ or n won't make a difference.
 
Huracan said:
Other choice you might have is that if it is in your middle name I assume it is your second last name. Some people in that case drop their second last name (which would end up as middle name) and just go by first name and last name. Anyway, I'm pretty sure writing it with ñ or n won't make a difference.
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Thank you very much for answering my questions. I think your suggestions will work.
 
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