--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The first time I > went abroad, people at the immigration cannot > reconcile Joseph Santos > Palis with Joseph Palis. So I have to have a lawyer > to put in black and > white that Joseph Palis is really also Joseph Santos > Palis.
That's incredible. What's their problem? It's like a middle name - lots of us have those. My brother-in-law, who is Mexican had trouble when he immigrated to Canada because in Mexico they use both their father's and mother's surnames, with the mother's surname coming AFTER the father's. He was generally known by his father's surname, so he was known generally as Rafael Balarezo. But he would normally sign his name Rafael Balarezo Berumen or Rafael Balarezo B. That drove Anglo-Canadian immigration types nuts, because you just *can't* have something coming *after* your last name. That was about 30 years ago and things have changed and I have a feeling they wouldn't force him to change his name if he were to immigrate today - those were the days when, on wedding licenses, the man if he had never married before, was described as "bachelor" and the woman as "spinster", and a woman, if she decided to change back to her before-married name, had to get her husband's permission to do so. But that's a whole 'nother story. ______________________________________________________________________ Post your ad for free now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
