Given Name

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You must enter the Given Names exactly as they are shown on the title page of your passport. Even if you have changed your name since the issue of your passport, you must enter the details as shown in the passport.

You may use the letters A to Z, hyphen (-), apostrophe (') and space.

Please do not include qualifiers such as Snr, Jnr, Esq, PhD or 3rd as part of your name.

Given Names are sometimes called Christian Names. In some cultures, Given Names appear to be the main name; the Family Name is rarely used in day to day conversation. Most passports will show both the Given Names and the Family Name.
The Given Name is usually the name that you would use to identify individual members of your family while the Family Name is used by all members of the family.

There may be more than one Given Name. Use the name(s) exactly as shown in your passport, even if you use nicknames or modified versions of the first name as common practice. If you have more than one Given Name, enter them all (provided they are shown in the passport) and leave a space between each name. If you have a hyphenated Given Name (eg. Klaus-Dieter) enter it with a hyphen but no spaces.

If you have no Given Name, enter only a hyphen (-)

At present, only the standard Roman characters used by the English alphabet are accepted by the Internet ETA System. Japanese, Arabic, Thai, Chinese, Greek and other non-Roman character sets are not accepted. Please make certain your computer is set up to accommodate this. Similarly, modified Roman characters (such as the German Umlaut) are not accepted. If you usually translate a character like 'ß' to 'ss', you may enter this translation into the system.

	Right		Wrong
	Nesuda		Noi (nickname)
	Andre Napoleon		ÆØÇ (non-Roman)

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