Middle name missing in COPR

[armoured]

This is totally correct. Middle names are useless in Canada.

Well, they're not useless from a systems perspective, in that sometimes they can help identify/differentiate between people with very common names.

But I look at it differently: the point of middle names is entirely social - to mean whatever the family and their social circle wants it to mean. It's just a second given name. Whether that's a patronymic (like in many languages incl Slavic) or mother's family name (eg Spanish tradition, still used in some countries with historic/cultural link to Spain) or just a grandparent or treasured relative, that's fine.

Obviously some want it to be a 'second family name', which is also cool - but it won't have that significance here unless somehow included in the last name field (which might require a legal change fo name).

But again: most Canadians won't get fussed about it. Use what you want in the contexts you want it used and most people will respect it.

 

[mpsqra]

Hi all,

I already obtained my CoPR and I'm planning to move to Canada in the next few months.

Where I'm from, our passports have a last name, given name, and a middle name. These are separate fields. When I was applying for EE, the instructions there said to write the given name as shown in the passport. My middle name therefore is not in my CoPR as there was no space to put it in the EE application. However, my CoPR is technically correct as it has my last name and given name on my passport.

It only dawned on me that there's a chance in the future that my middle name will be lost since it's not on any official Canadian document. I therefore want to have it appended to my given name. It is part of my identity.

What's the least painful way to go about this process? As much as possible, I'd like to settle this before the citizenship process in the future. There's technically no legal name change as my name on the passport did not change. I read in the port of entry examinations manual, p. 55 that if there's a "clerical error" in the CoPR, the border service officer can amend it and update GCMS upon landing. Anyone experienced this and would mine be a "clerical error" (although it's partly my fault that I didn't combine my given name and middle name)...?

I'd appreciate your suggestions if you have any experiences on this matter. Thanks!

did you land? any problme?

 

[mpsqra]

@steaky thanks. I don't see where, Any problem with the m name

 

[unforgettableseries]

Well, they're not useless from a systems perspective, in that sometimes they can help identify/differentiate between people with very common names.

But I look at it differently: the point of middle names is entirely social - to mean whatever the family and their social circle wants it to mean. It's just a second given name. Whether that's a patronymic (like in many languages incl Slavic) or mother's family name (eg Spanish tradition, still used in some countries with historic/cultural link to Spain) or just a grandparent or treasured relative, that's fine.

Obviously some want it to be a 'second family name', which is also cool - but it won't have that significance here unless somehow included in the last name field (which might require a legal change fo name).

But again: most Canadians won't get fussed about it. Use what you want in the contexts you want it used and most people will respect it.

The Spanish thing is quite funny, they have a LOT of names.

You had a very good explanation that it only becomes an issue from a system point of view if it gets included as part of your first or last name, and primarily the last name.

 

[armoured]

The Spanish thing is quite funny, they have a LOT of names.

Well I've known some (posh) French that have very elaborate names, but they seem to keep them to baptismal names (I think), I'm not even sure the French govt registers them.

 

[mpsqra]

The Spanish thing is quite funny, they have a LOT of names.

You had a very good explanation that it only becomes an issue from a system point of view if it gets included as part of your first or last name, and primarily the last name.

The long Spanish names was to identify the Christian roots, At the medieval time they were the only acceptable to live in the Iberic Peninsula, others,,, you know the rest of the historic moments of the greater Castilian-Aragon Kingdom, The Spanish kingdom is relative new.