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Old Mar 6, 2024 | 8:32 am
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Originally Posted by Anonba
The accepted solution for BA is to add another title in place of the first name, so it would look like this: Abdullah Mr Mr
I always recommended ABDULLAH/ABDULLAH to JAX agents - unless like below they had a US visa issued as ABDULLAH/FNU in which case the pax was usually quite insistent on being ticketed as FNU.

Originally Posted by infrequently
When my friend, John (not his real name) went to the USA on student visa in the 90s, he was given the official name of "FNU John". The FNU stands for "first name unknown". The funny thing is that all of his Indonesian friends knew him as John, but when he brought a couple of coworkers to a gathering, they kept calling him "fuh-new".
US DHS still does this today, I've seen it on deportee bookings they make.
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