Originally Posted by teddybear99

It's because many agents know the limitations of the printing systems and how names often get truncated. I never had a problem traveling and I have used two different spellings of my first name, one with an "e", the other with an "a" as my parents each spelled it differently as I grew up. It took getting a copy of my birth certificate to find out the actual spelling of my first name and actually had to correct my SS card.