Fixing a name mismatch between certificate and passport through an ECE evaluation — how do you prepare?

The scope of this answer is “Fixing a name mismatch between certificate and passport through an ECE evaluation”, so it deals with the case-specific points first and the shared rules afterwards. The next step is confirming the filing channel and the copy or file format required. Note who signed each certification and on what date for later reference. Attach a document index to the bundle so nothing is lost during review. When several certification layers are required, start with the slowest one. Documents with a short validity window should be produced as close to the filing date as possible. Before starting, verify the source document is still within any validity window the recipient applies, then count the number of certified sets needed before work starts, because extra sets restart the certification steps, then confirm with the receiving body whether it wants an original, a certified copy or a certified translation. The common failure in this group of cases is a translation that does not match the certification type required. Check first whether the issuing office of the source document is one the destination recognises. The terms that frame this page are Fixing · name · mismatch · between. ECE (Educational Credential Evaluators) is a member of NACES, the association of U.S. evaluation services. Its reports are used by institutions and licensing boards, and are issued either as a document-level report or as a course-by-course report showing converted credits and grades per subject. The name on the qualification must match the passport used in the application. If you changed a given name or surname, married or divorced, or the romanisation on the certificate differs from the passport, prepare the linking evidence — the official name-change certificate, marriage registration or divorce registration — translated and certified together with the academic set, so the file is not returned for a name mismatch. A Thai-issued academic document used by a foreign body normally follows the same order: obtain the official document from the issuing institution, translate it in full including every seal and signature, then have the translation certified by the Legalisation Division, Department of Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and where the receiving body requires it, by that country's embassy or consulate afterwards. Thailand is not a party to the Apostille Convention, so no apostille is issued on Thai documents. Cost and lead time depend on page count, target language, how many certified sets are needed and the steps the receiving evaluation body sets, so every file is quoted before work starts. Send scans of every page of your academic documents together with the requirement page from the evaluation body, via LINE @NAATI, call +66 80-557-8887 or email ilc@thainotary.co.th.

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