Name with an accent - DD passport application

[champagneplanet]

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Applying for DDs first passport and wanted some advice please. Her name has an é which is included on her birth certificate. Do I put this on the passport application or not, and will it cause problems if I do or if I don't? Has anyone experienced this before?

This from the UK passport application website.
If your name has a special character or accent mark please enter your name using a normal letter eg e instead of é or a instead of ä etc.

They tell you just to write the letter with no accent. My daughter has the same

Thank you, I saw this and it would make life so much easier. I was just worried it may cause issues that they don't match but I suppose passport overrules birth certificate anyway.

In hindsight I suppose I should have opted against the accent when registering her, only my close family use it anyway and it doesn't affect the pronunciation. I do worry it will cause problems it's documents when she's older.

UK bureaucracy can't handle special characters and accents, and neither can a lot of online forms. It doesn't cause any issues with just plain accents, but since the accent on her name is purely decorative and nothing to do with pronunciation (and a pain to type on English settings), I expect she'll just stop using it sooner or later.

Laughing at 'normal letter', though. All those foreign weirdos with their abnormal letters, eh?

My daughter is an adult now. She hasn't had too much trouble. She has the accent on her birth certificate.
She really likes it and it's not on her long list of things I've done wrong

My DD is 20, she has a é on her birth certificate but not on anything else. Actually it was only due to this thread that I remembered about it.