What should I do if my visa application was rejected due to a minor typo in my name?

@Christopher **********

rubbish airlines are very particular as they have to bear the cost of any repatriations

@Anna ********

That makes it worse. Fortunately, airline check-in (for example) are reportedly more customer focused. Middle names missing or reversed with surnames etc appear to be accepted. They understand the reality of different nationalities formats and the quirks of airline/travel agent booking systems. Plus, it’s harder to be tough when you’re face to face with a person. Easy to be awkward when they’re on the other end of an email.

Anonymous participant Agree. Passports are standardised and the embassy has a duty of care to you, their customer. A reasonable person would expect a decent standard of competence too. If I were you, I would put together another email stating these points and asking them to waive the fee. If they won't, initiate a chargeback with your bank/credit card company. They will ask the embassy for an explanation. If they agree with you or the embassy fails to respond within 30 days you will get your money back.

Anonymous participant

@James *******

The old "entitlement" chestnut again. Foreigners should be allowed to get their names wrong, fail to pick it up in the double check (having been warned already), but then cry when an embassy official notices the applicant doesn't know their own name! This Generation Entitled is laughable

Anonymous participant you were the one who kept calling your error a typo not me🤣

Anonymous participant but obviously not the same as your passport which is what is required

Fair or not that’s the way it is and it’s happened to lots of who didn’t check properly

Anonymous participant I have a hyphen in my first given name as well, and when the system captured it, and it's displayed differently on the biographical page on the passport. In the MRZ (machine-readable zone), it omits the hyphen, but my full name above shows it. The OCR in the e-visa application system separated my first name into first and middle incorrectly and left out the middle name. I corrected the first name but didn't input my middle name. Didn't think omissions of non-essential (in some cases) parts of your name were errors. Actually didn't think my middle name is important for a visa. So, yeah, I got rejected but ended up getting accepted later. I also don't agree with it, and it isn't common to take large application fees for minor errors in other countries, despite the vigorous defense this topic seems to provoke here.

Anonymous participant Passport are meant to overcome this, don't they ?

@De ****

consider it low level Darwinism

@De ****

the website tells you in advance that corrections aren't allowed, before you choose to pay

@De ****

while it's courteous, the applicant does mark, agreeing that all information is accurate and correct. The system even allows you to confirm the information before submitting the application. In addition to that, there are several Facebook groups that allow you to ask questions and double check. To even drive this home, embassies even accept emails.

While I empathize, it's simply not the embassy's responsibility.

@De ****

- They place warning notices everywhere telling you that any mistake can’t be fixed and the double check and ensure you entered everything correctly. If not, they are up front, saying you will lose your fee.

@De ****

if they did that they would be allocating visas to all sorts of fraudulent people or giving visas to people that weren’t valid because it had the incorrect name on it

Surely any Visa that is approved has to match the name on the passport

If you can’t enter your name correctly that’s your fault