Are these "Roman" letters -> é ô ë ç

[ytdan 0]

When writing my fiancé(e)'s name, and the names of her parents and her street address etc., should I have the accent on the letters, or should I strip them out, and write them only in the box provided for the foreign language name?

Thanks for any advice!!!

[CA dreamer 3]

i think the petition is asking you if your name is rather than roman letters write it here: so roman is latin is what we write now,other than roman is east europe,greece,arabic,indian....etc

[YuAndDan 153]

Accent marks not needed on address.

[ytdan 0]

So when they say to use only "Roman" letters, they mean the English alphabet (A to Z). But no accents from other alphabets (French in my case). So only for my response to question 16 of the I-129F should I use é ô ë ç???

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

When writing my fiancé(e)'s name, and the names of her parents and her street address etc., should I have the accent on the letters, or should I strip them out, and write them only in the box provided for the foreign language name?

Thanks for any advice!!!

In a word, no.

The acute accent, circumflex, umlaut, and cedilla (which you used as examples) are not part of the "Roman" alphabet. They are called 'diacritical marks'. In some cases (such as French) the marks are an addition to the Roman characters. In other cases (such as Vietnamese) the addition of a diacritical mark to a Roman character might change the tonal characteristics and meaning of the word, and other diacritical marks might represent completely different letters of their alphabet (we can thank French missionaries for the Vietnamese alphabet!). For example, 'é' would just result in the word being spoken in a higher tone, but is otherwise no different from 'e'. On the other hand, 'ô' is a completely different letter from 'o'.

In general, you should leave the diacritical marks off of the Latin characters unless the form specifically requests something in the "native" alphabet.

I was concerned about addresses provided on my fiancee's G-325A, since the consulate in Vietnam is known to contact relatives on occasion. So I provided an address attachment for these forms that gave both names and address in both pure Roman script, as well as native Vietnamese script.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

When writing my fiancé(e)'s name, and the names of her parents and her street address etc., should I have the accent on the letters, or should I strip them out, and write them only in the box provided for the foreign language name?

Thanks for any advice!!!

They are Roman letters with accents. when writing her name in her native alphabet, as aske don the I-129f form, you should use the accents. You do not need to use them EXCEPT where the form asks you to print her name using the native alphabet. The French alphabet IS different than our as each letter with an accent is considered a separate letter. For address, parents name, etc., you do not need them

[ytdan 0]

Awesome.

Thanks everyone for clearing that up for me!

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

When writing my fiancé(e)'s name, and the names of her parents and her street address etc., should I have the accent on the letters, or should I strip them out, and write them only in the box provided for the foreign language name?

Thanks for any advice!!!

They are Roman letters with accents. when writing her name in her native alphabet, as aske don the I-129f form, you should use the accents. You do not need to use them EXCEPT where the form asks you to print her name using the native alphabet. The French alphabet IS different than our as each letter with an accent is considered a separate letter. For address, parents name, etc., you do not need them

Really? That's interesting. I took French for 6 years (only got into 3rd year French, though - long story, don't ask). We learned the French alphabet, but never learned different names for the letters with and without accents. For instance, "e" was always called (phonetically) "er", and "é" was called "er accent egu", and "ê" was called "er accent sear-cone-flex" (again, phonetically).

Vietnamese, on the other hand, has different names for letters with different accents, but this only applies to certain accents. For example, the name of the letter "e" is phonetically pronounced "er", while the name of the letter "ê" is phonetically pronounced "ay". The letter "é" is not a good example in Vietnamese because the accute accent doesn't change the name of the letter, but rather changes the tone of the word. You'll often see tone accents like accute, grave, tilde, hook, and dot combined on the same Latin root letter with letter accents like circumflex, breve, stroke (only on the letter "d") and horn.

The Vietnamese alphabet has 29 letters, even though it doesn't use the Latin root letters f, j, w, or z. This latter fact was humorous to me because they had to manually craft the letter "J" for my name on the signs at our engagement party.

[Kinito_2k3 5]

When writing my fiancé(e)'s name, and the names of her parents and her street address etc., should I have the accent on the letters, or should I strip them out, and write them only in the box provided for the foreign language name?

Thanks for any advice!!!

They are Roman letters with accents. when writing her name in her native alphabet, as aske don the I-129f form, you should use the accents. You do not need to use them EXCEPT where the form asks you to print her name using the native alphabet. The French alphabet IS different than our as each letter with an accent is considered a separate letter. For address, parents name, etc., you do not need them

Wrong - They are not different letters - they are there to emphasize a difference in tone and pronunciation when speaking - that's all

ytdan - Just fill everything without the accents, it makes no difference whatsoever, whether you are in an English context or french context - many french native don't know how to use them since it is "so simple" to use

Don't worry about it