24/09/2026
A name spelled one way on a birth certificate, another way on a marriage certificate, a third way on the current passport. It is far more common than most applicants expect, and it can stall a file.
Across seventeen years of advising cross-border families, we have seen the same three causes account for almost every name discrepancy we resolve. Transliteration drift, where Arabic, Cyrillic, or Mandarin names render differently into Latin script depending on which issuer made the call. Order and structure, where family-name conventions transpose between documents. And plain clerical error.
The Citizenship by Investment units cross-reference every document against the others. A mismatch — even an apparent one — can return a file or hold it in queue for weeks.
There is a clean way through, and the order in which you resolve the documents matters more than most advisors will tell you.
The work happens before the application opens, not during it.
We walk through the resolution sequence in more depth on our website you can access by clicking the link in bio.
If any of this is live for your family right now, a complimentary first conversation with our team is the next step.
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