Problem with passport...see details!

I would take it in to your local PO or passport processing place and ask them to take a look at it and advise you. I doubt it is a problem but you want to be sure.

What @janbb said is a good idea, always best to check first before traveling. I doubt it will be a problem though, so long as it’s all spelled correctly. On mine, I have my full name, but I don’t have my middle name on all my other id’s, which wasn’t really an issue either.

He will have to eventually send it back to the regional passport office. Call their customer support, and I think they charge for customer support, at least they did when I had my issue. I got my passport right before a trip to Italy with my birth date wrong, the month was wrong. They had my birth certificate too. The only thing I can figure is that they didn’t look at it, they took the information of the handwritten application. I was born in April and the passport had me being born in September. My fours can looking kind of like nines so I can only think that was what happened. If flipped because there was no time to correct it. They said it would be o.k., just to take my birth certificate with me. To correct the problem I had to send the passport back to my regional passport office along with a certified copy of my birth certificate.

When you are at an actual border with an actual policeman, it won’t be a problem. They may ask questions, but they’ll figure out it’s a typo. But you should get it fixed whenever you get the chance.

Is it a common name (eg “Rober tson” instead of “Robertson”) or is it from another language (eg “Shang Chow” instead of “Shangchow”)? In the latter case they might think the name is just “Chow” and get confused, but they’ll figure it out in the end anyway.

If you have time to fix it, get it fixed.

If you don’t have time to get it fixed….....If you’re flying, just make sure the ticket is spelled the same way as the passport. It will also depend on where your final destination is. Is it somewhere you have to report to the police station when you get there or surrender your passport to the hotel you are staying?

The only way anyone will know there is an error is if you have to offer up another form of id, like his drivers license, so Car Rental might be an issue, but they usually aren’t THAT picky.

@Jack79 His last name is DeChambeau and the passport reads De Chambeau.
@cazzie We are taking a cruise to the Bahamas. No flying involved and no car rentals.

@ItalianPrincess1217 I don’t think that sort of typo will be an issue. My grandmother’s name was Delong, but I saw it spelled both Delong and De Long many, many times. Just an unfortunate aside of having a French name in the US!

@ItalianPrincess1217 no, that’s definitely not a problem. And I can imagine why people would write it as two words (it was originally two). I wouldn’t even bother changing it in this case. Same with Dutch names with “van” and so on. Don’t worry about it :)