DS-260 Question

[EG&XY 144]

2 minutes ago, aeromav said:

No..No.. in our country we only use one surname not combined.  One last thing... how about the Full Name in Native Alphabet.  Searched google and many answered does not apply.  do i have to do that too?  because we also use english alphabet.

You should be fine. That would be more for people like my husband, who would enter chinese characters in that field.

 

For example:

Surname = mama

Given name = huhu

Name in native alphabet = 马马虎虎

 

Ok, that was a bit of a joke, that isn't really his name. Literally those characters mean "horse horse tiger tiger" and it translates to so-so. But the surname and given name are how the english version of those characters are written for a form like this.

[aeromav 0]

2 minutes ago, EG&XY said:

You should be fine. That would be more for people like my husband, who would enter chinese characters in that field.

 

For example:

Surname = mama

Given name = huhu

Name in native alphabet = 马马虎虎

 

Ok, that was a bit of a joke, that isn't really his name. Literally those characters mean "horse horse tiger tiger" and it translates to so-so. But the surname and given name are how the english version of those characters are written for a form like this.

Haha... that made me smile...  So the native alphabet means in the from is the alphabet not in english letters like france, chinese, japanese etc...

I will put "does not apply" then instead putting her full name.  

 

Thank you...Thank you again.  You've been a great help. 

[EG&XY 144]

1 minute ago, aeromav said:

Haha... that made me smile...  So the native alphabet means in the from is the alphabet not in english letters like france, chinese, japanese etc...

I will put "does not apply" then instead putting her full name.  

 

Thank you...Thank you again.  You've been a great help. 

Yes, "native alphabet" just means the native language does not use the traditional latin characters. Basically that way they could easily match the name up with other documents that might be in the person's native language, which wouldn't be using the latin alphabet that the reviewer would understand. Plus, in some languages like Mandarin that latin alphabet version may actually represent several different things in native language. For example, "ma" can represent 马 (horse), 码 (mother), 麻 (hemp), or 骂 (scold). So that is why they also want to know what it is in the native alphabet. For a tonal language such as mandarin, simply writing the latin alphabet version won't tell you everything.

 

Sorry, you caught me on a particularly free night and got an unrequested lesson in Mandarin. 

[aeromav 0]

5 minutes ago, EG&XY said:

Yes, "native alphabet" just means the native language does not use the traditional latin characters. Basically that way they could easily match the name up with other documents that might be in the person's native language, which wouldn't be using the latin alphabet that the reviewer would understand. Plus, in some languages like Mandarin that latin alphabet version may actually represent several different things in native language. For example, "ma" can represent 马 (horse), 码 (mother), 麻 (hemp), or 骂 (scold). So that is why they also want to know what it is in the native alphabet. For a tonal language such as mandarin, simply writing the latin alphabet version won't tell you everything.

 

Sorry, you caught me on a particularly free night and got an unrequested lesson in Mandarin. 

Mandarin can be hard to learn but good for you to learn another language.  

 

Thank you...☺☺☺☺

Edited August 3, 2017 by aeromav