DVLA insistent on misspelling name

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JosephK
JosephK Posts: 240 Forumite
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Isn't it often the minor problems that can be the most irritatingly difficult to sort out. DVLA, despite several requests over the years, just will not correct the spelling of my wife's name on her driving licence.

Her surname (let's say, just for illustrative purposes) is KARNSTEIN, and has been since Dracula was a lad. However, DVLA have, since times long past, spelt it KARNNSTEIN, ie. with an extra N and seem unable or unwilling to alter it. Latest attempt, this month when she had to renew licence as coming up to age 700, sorry, 70. Couldn't renew online because of discrepancy so went by snail mail, completing renewal form with correct spelling and passport details, as requested by DVLA, to confirm.

The new licence duly arrived, with her name still misspelled.:naughty: Oh, well, back to drawing board.

Maybe I could try telling her she cannot drive anymore as she does not have a valid licence:D or, then again, maybe not.
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  • Blackbeard_of_Perranporth
    Blackbeard_of_Perranporth Posts: 7,605 Forumite
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    There, a quick search on the duck!

    Name Change
  • Gers
    Gers Posts: 12,033 Forumite
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    My forename is very unusual and causes me daily grief! Getting official documents to recognise it has been a problem for most of my life - and I'm 64 years old. To my knowledge there are only two of us with the forename.

    Comments range from 'are you sure?' to ' can you spell that again?' to 'gosh, that' unusual, where's it from?' The 'are you sure?' ones annoy me the most, why would I not be sure! Rhetorical question.

    Having to spell it out each time is fine, having to correct officialdom is just plain frustrating. So, my sympathies are with your wife, all I can suggest is being pedantic, insistent and calm. (being calm doesn't always work for me even though it's my aim). :rotfl:
  • Owain_Moneysaver
    Owain_Moneysaver Posts: 11,357 Forumite
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    Write to the Information Compliance Officer, DVRE, DVLA, Swansea SA6 7JL making an official complaint that the DVLA are holding incorrect personal data in contravention of the Data Protection Act and the GDPR.
    A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.
  • pulliptears
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    DH's christian names are Steven Stanley Surname. We once had a letter from the DVLA addressed to 'Steveb Stabket Surname'.
    I often call him by that to take the mickey.
  • robatwork
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    pulliptears wrote: »
    DH's christian names are Steven Stanley Surname. We once had a letter from the DVLA addressed to 'Steveb Stabket Surname'.

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  • tetley
    tetley Posts: 104 Forumite
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    Gers wrote: »
    My forename is very unusual and causes me daily grief! Getting official documents to recognise it has been a problem for most of my life - and I'm 64 years old. To my knowledge there are only two of us with the forename.

    Comments range from 'are you sure?' to ' can you spell that again?' to 'gosh, that' unusual, where's it from?' The 'are you sure?' ones annoy me the most, why would I not be sure! Rhetorical question.

    Having to spell it out each time is fine, having to correct officialdom is just plain frustrating. So, my sympathies are with your wife, all I can suggest is being pedantic, insistent and calm. (being calm doesn't always work for me even though it's my aim). :rotfl:
    Care to tell us what your forername is?
  • Gers
    Gers Posts: 12,033 Forumite
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    tetley wrote: »
    Care to tell us what your forername is?

    :rotfl::eek:
  • agrinnall
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    Gers wrote: »
    :rotfl::eek:


    No wonder people have difficulty spelling that, I never know whether the silent Z comes before, after or in the middle of the double J.
  • JosephK
    JosephK Posts: 240 Forumite
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    DVLA finally corrected spelling:T after final, very tongue in cheek, snail mail. Taken them only forty plus years of assorted requests - patient endurance attaineth to all things.
  • robatwork
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    Gers wrote: »
    My forename is very unusual and causes me daily grief!

    Is it Ran but pronounced Rain?
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