Name Fields Job Aid

• Surname/family name
• From the passport/Primary identifier contained in the passport’s machine readable zone

Note: The only name for someone without another name.

• Latin (Roman) alphabet
• No hyphens
• No apostrophes
• No special characters
• One space between names
• No names of: LNU, Unknown, Not Applicable, or None
• UNK and NA entries require confirmation that UNK or NA is the nonimmigrant’s name
• 40-character limit

• Latin (Roman) alphabet
• No hyphens
• No apostrophes
• No special characters
• One space between names
• No names of: FNU, Unknown, Not Applicable, or None
• UNK and NA entries require confirmation that UNK or NA is the nonimmigrant’s name
• 80-character limit

• Personal suffix (i.e., Jr., Sr., III, etc.), if the individual has one
• Does not include a professional or educational suffix (i.e., MD, PhD, SJ, etc.)

• Latin (Roman) alphabet
• Selected from drop-down list

• Nonimmigrant’s full name
• Allows entry of the name used by the school if different from fields above
• Examples:
  • Susan Zhang instead of Yibin Zhang
  • Hélène Müller-Garçon

• Latin (Roman) alphabet
• Hyphens allowed
• Apostrophes allowed
• One space between names
• Comma and one space allowed before suffix
• Period allowed in suffix
• Also allowed: alphabetical characters with: ¨, ^, `, ´, °, ¸
• 145-character limit

• Latin (Roman) alphabet
• No hyphens
• N apostrophes
• One space between names
• 39-character limit