Any practical benefit from having a passport / ID with a "localized" version of the name?

[OKboomer]

If one can legally get their hands on a citizenship whereby one can opt for having a "localized" version of their name (read different spelling or even a local translation of the name) thus giving a name different from that on all the other existing documents, does that give any practical benefits?

1) I understand that in the age of biometrics, the usefulness of this is lower
2) I understand of the headaches of dealing with ownership / legal rights for any matters where the original name still stands (for which there will be the prior passport from another country anyway)

are there any practical benefits from this from the point of view of confusing the system/matrix, or is it all still going to be easily connected through other logic (e.g. date and place of birth, etc).

e.g. if running a company with identity B (localized name), can any civil (not criminal) troubles, e.g. debts or civil lawsuits, come and haunt identity A and/or lay claim to their assets?

Thanks for any tips or experience

 

[JohnnyDoe]

Any decent search will target local variations of the name as well as DOB.
At best you might avoid appearing through Google searches, if the name is different enough (otherwise even Google will understand that it's still you).

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[cherry]

I've been thinking about this myself....

1. Get citizenship in a non-connected country.
2. Legally change your name there.
3. Get new passport from that country.
4. Use new passport to enter your old country.
5. Use your foreign identity as and when needed.
6. In your old country, change your name again, to disconnect from new country's paper trail.
7. Keep doing that between other countries too.

I haven't flown for many years though, so I think some countries might take biometric data in the arrival airport.

Last edited: Jan 11, 2025

 

[JohnnyDoe]

cherry said:
I've been thinking about this myself....

1. Get citizenship in a non-connected country.
2. Legally change your name there.
3. Get new passport from that country.
4. Use new passport to enter your old country.
5. Use your foreign identity as and when needed.
6. In your old country, change your name again, to disconnect from new country's paper trail.
7. Keep doing that between other countries too.

I haven't flown for many years though, so I think some countries might take biometric data in the arrival airport.
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You are not considering:
1. Name change records
2. Place of birth
3. Date of birth
In short, you can't change your identity “legally”.

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[cherry]

JohnnyDoe said:
You are not considering:
1. Name change records
2. Place of birth
3. Date of birth
In short, you can't change your identity “legally”.
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The key would be to do this in a "non-CRS" country for name change trails. But my knowledge of which countries those might be, is limited.

Say you change your name in country B, you could then go to country C and do it again. But I would need more info on what countries check with whom.

 

[liquidforce]

depeding on where you're located - there are countries where you could change to your mothers maiden name fairly easily.