Help regarding name split.

[immihelp]

Hi

While searching for FNU problems I landed to your site.
I would like to thank you for pointing out about the consequences of not having the Surname in Passport.
My case is also similar.

In my passport my Given Name is "Mukesh Kumar" and Surname field is left blank.
So to avoid FNU problem going ahead, I want to split my name. I want my name to be read as First Name : Mukesh and Last Name: Kumar.

So my question to you is as following:-

1. Do I need to apply for new passport or just adding an observation on passport will be sufficient?
2. How long will it take for new passport/adding observation?
3. Is "Kumar" as a surname accepted? Since I dont have surname as such in any of the document. My all the document shows my name as Mukesh Kumar only?
4. Is there any chance of visa getting rejected just because of name related issue - no surname, name changed , name split ..etc?

Waiting for your reply....... Thanks in advance.

[immihelp]

1. New passport.
2. Timings vary.
3. As such 'Kumar' surname is acceptable. If you don't have any document to prove so, how will you prove what your surname is? Your email says your surname is Sahu. Why don't you add that itself?
4. No.

[immihelp]

Thank you so much for quick response.

I will be getting new passport with Name: Mukesh and Surname Kumar. (suggested by RPO officer)
Since all the documents has my name as Mukesh Kumar , I can say that Kumar is my surname. There is no separate field for surname as such in any of the document except passport. So I can easily split Kumar as surname in passport.... What do you say?

Yes sahu is my family name but if I go for adding "sahu" as surname then I will have to go through name change procedure which requires news paper advertisement and again it will mis-match with the name present in all the documents.

Let me know your opinion.

[immihelp]

1. You can do that.
2. Even when making 'Kumar' as your last name, you may be required to do the paper ad etc.