Tuesday, November 1, 2011

With or Without a Joseph or an "S"

OH NO...snag city (possibly or possibly not) but we are NOT taking a chance.

Here's our dilemma:

Jacques birth certificate is spelled:  JACQUE_  MORIN (with NO 's')

Jacques drivers license is spelled:  JACQUES JOSEPH MORIN (with an 's' and with a 'Joseph')

Jacques passport is spelled:  JACQUES MORIN (with an 's' and with NO 'Joseph')

Can you see there may be an issue here ???

First line of defence:  getting driver's license changed to say JACQUES MORIN (with NO Joseph)

AND....the tougher one is having Jacques birth certificate changed (which could take up to 8 weeks - not a big deal just yet) to HAVE an "S" - which is the way he was always taught to write his name!!!

A little story of Jacques history!

So, he was born and his parents either never had or lost his birth certificate.

He got baptized and his baptismal certificate was used for getting his drivers license (must be common around small French 'catholic' Canadian towns) when he was 16. 

NOW, his baptismal certificate had the middle name of JOSEPH (very common to catholic French children who were not given a 2nd name) - SO his drivers license has the name of Jacques JOSEPH Morin.

Fast forward a few years (2004), when Jacques applied to get his passport.  He filled out his paperwork, spelling his name "WITH an 's'" and NO Joseph.  Once the paperwork was filled out, we waited for his original birth certificate to come in the mail. 

Once it arrived, he was surprised to find out that he didn't even know his own name and that he had been spelling it wrong all these years!

SO...he took the application and the birth certificate into Passport Canada and they issued his passport with his name spelled WITH an 's'!

SO........NOW........he has 3 documents, ALL spelled differently!!!

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