French Accent in Name

[Marie-Eve 3]

Hello again, good people of VJ!

There is an accent in my French surname: "Préaux". I will often omit it as english form most of the time don't do well with accents: "Preaux". Then again, this is my name, on an immigration-related form.

So what do you think? Should I write it with the accent or without?

Merci for your input!

[duraaraa 203]

I think it is entirely up to you. In the U.S., there are some documents on which they are willing to put the accent marks, and others which they aren't. As long as you put it with the accent for the 'name in native alphabet' section, I don't think it will be an issue.

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

We have a name with a weird letter in it å. We chose to keep all the immigration paperwork and everything with aa instead of å besides the native alphabet thing.

It might cause less headaches to not use the accent.

[moondream 36]

Hello again, good people of VJ!

There is an accent in my French surname: "Préaux". I will often omit it as english form most of the time don't do well with accents: "Preaux". Then again, this is my name, on an immigration-related form.

So what do you think? Should I write it with the accent or without?

Merci for your input!

i was french went from H1B to Green Card to be US Citizen and i just took all the accents out of my name after H1B.

Was a pain every where. Never had a problem since then

[cazzers 83]

write it the way it is in your passport. My name has romanian letters in it too, but in the passport i dont have the romanian letters, so i wrote it down like in my passport.

Edited March 12, 2013 by cazzers

[JohnR! 5,495]

Hello again, good people of VJ!

There is an accent in my French surname: "Préaux". I will often omit it as english form most of the time don't do well with accents: "Preaux". Then again, this is my name, on an immigration-related form.

So what do you think? Should I write it with the accent or without?

Merci for your input!

You can drop the accent. My wife had two in her name and zapped both...

[Pitaya 2,577]

Put the accent or other characters in the immigration apps/petitions form areas designated by "use native alphabet", i.e., not in common-American use.

FWIW, We had a whole page of additional information with our apps/petitions when providing "native alphabet" information for my Chinese wife and stepson.

祝你好运。(Good Luck.)

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Hello again, good people of VJ!

There is an accent in my French surname: "Préaux". I will often omit it as english form most of the time don't do well with accents: "Preaux". Then again, this is my name, on an immigration-related form.

So what do you think? Should I write it with the accent or without?

Merci for your input!

Options

1. Doesn't matter so don't sweat it, most Americans can't pronouce the accent anyway and have no clue what it means.

2. Write it in by hand, you CAN do that

3. Buy a French keyboard. Order them online. I bought mine in Montreal, but Montreal is close to me. plugs in the USB port, I also have a Russian (Cyrillic) keyboard I bought in Ukraine. (note I write "Montreal" without the accent acute) but I want you to know that here in Vermont, pres a la Quebec, we DO pronounce it properly "Mohn-ray-al, Kaybek")

4. Use "Control 130" on the right hand number keys for accent acute and "Control 138" for accent grave

Choose any of the above, Bienvenue!

[Marie-Eve 3]

Options

1. Doesn't matter so don't sweat it, most Americans can't pronouce the accent anyway and have no clue what it means.

2. Write it in by hand, you CAN do that

3. Buy a French keyboard. Order them online. I bought mine in Montreal, but Montreal is close to me. plugs in the USB port, I also have a Russian (Cyrillic) keyboard I bought in Ukraine. (note I write "Montreal" without the accent acute) but I want you to know that here in Vermont, pres a la Quebec, we DO pronounce it properly "Mohn-ray-al, Kaybek")

4. Use "Control 130" on the right hand number keys for accent acute and "Control 138" for accent grave

Choose any of the above, Bienvenue!

The problem really isn't about typing the accent (I have a french canadian keyboard) but more about if I should or shouldn't include the accent at all. The consensus seems to be that Id be better off leaving the accent out except for the part where I have to type my name in my native alphabet.

Thanks for the informations anyway