No legal surname in home country

Hi All,

I have an Irish long term visa and will be flying to Ireland in December for employment. In my home country, surnames are optional and my details on my local passport are as follows:

First name: ABC
Surname: --
Father name: XYZ

When applying for Irish visa, clear guidance was given on Irish department of justice website to place a dash in case you have no surname, I followed this guidance and got my visa. My name on visa is "- , ABC" (i.e. surname, first name).

Recently I went to create a MyGovID, but it is not accepting a dash as username. So now my main query is, when applying for IRP, PPS and all other official Irish tasks, I understand that surname is a mandatory requirement. So what should I write on the relevant IRP, PPS forms,

1. Should I write my father name as surname on IRP application, PPS application and other forms as my father name can be verified from my passport (but is not written on Irish visa)?
2. Or should I just write my first name as both first name and last name?


Thanks you for your time and attention.

Hi,

Try to write 0 there. If it's not allowing you try None or N/A. Since you will need to upload online your passport for PPS application and physical passport for IRP it won't be an issue . The other ones which wont require an I.D its best you include a cover letter with a copy of your I.D.

Tmh9179 wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 10, 2023 5:14 am

but it is not accepting a dash as username

Username or surname? Username is different.

Try putting a dot.

meself2 wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 10, 2023 7:42 am

Tmh9179 wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 10, 2023 5:14 am

but it is not accepting a dash as username

Username or surname? Username is different.

Try putting a dot.

He means he's trying to signup for MyGovID so surname. However OP has to know you can't do anything beneficial with that website until you have a PPSN and PSC.

Dash and Dot is the preferred way but since it's not accepting a dash maybe it might not accept a dot. So alternative incase it doesn't accept these 2 will be None or 0. Other is XX or Alt key, type 255 which makes the column blank.