Members compared notes on handling name discrepancies between educational credentials (WES/ECA reports), passports, and birth certificates — a common issue for Indian applicants whose older documents may not have full or consistent names.
What the group reported:- A 'no-name affidavit' addresses a birth certificate that lists no name at all — a legal declaration confirming your identity despite the gap in the original document.
- A 'same-name affidavit' addresses differences between the name on your credential (or ECA report) and your passport. One member confirmed this was successfully submitted and accepted for a spouse's ECA through IQAS, when the degree certificate name differed from the passport.
- ECA organizations distinguish between 'name on credentials' and 'name on passport' as separate fields, which is where these affidavits become relevant.
The practical takeaway: name mismatches between your documents and passport are a known, manageable issue — a notarized same-name or no-name affidavit, matched to your specific discrepancy, has been accepted by ECA organizations like IQAS.