Wife is illiterate. How shall I sign her name to the Application?

[mojorisin 5]

Hi everyone, I am worried about signing her name on her behalf. What do I do about wife who is unable to sign her name? She is Kenyan. She just prints her name or signs with one letter. I doubt this would be accepted.

She travels to other African countries with an unsigned passport.

[ATPEACE 43]

Your wife should print her own name, Printing of her name is the same as a signature.

[Zen Den 18]

Hi everyone, I am worried about signing her name on her behalf. What do I do about wife who is unable to sign her name? She is Kenyan. She just prints her name or signs with one letter. I doubt this would be accepted.

She travels to other African countries with an unsigned passport.

by any means, dont sign for her. you might be accused of a lot of things (forgery, coercion)

since she'll be signing a lot of papers from now on, it would be best to have her decide on how she wants her name to appear and sign her passport with that (a printed name is considered a signature really as long as it's written with her own hand. and in most forms there's a provision for writing her name in her native alphabet, if it's applicable.

good luck and god bless.

[pushbrk 12,968]

Hi everyone, I am worried about signing her name on her behalf. What do I do about wife who is unable to sign her name? She is Kenyan. She just prints her name or signs with one letter. I doubt this would be accepted.

She travels to other African countries with an unsigned passport.

A signature need not even be legible. Have her sign the way she signs. My wife signed in a way I certainly couldn't read, as she signed in her native Chinese characters.

[mojorisin 5]

Thanks for all your responses.

[Darnell 8,478]

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