Some non-UK nationals don't always have just one first name and just one last name. Some of us have two first names and two last names and none of them are considered middle names either in our passports or our countries of origin. Spanish nationals, for example, have two last names because they carry their father's family name and their mother's family name (Spanish women, for instance, keep their maiden's name when married and, pass their family's name to their children). In addition, sometimes our names have diacritical marks which are usually erased or omitted when we are being registered in UK records.

These issues are bringing legal problems in terms of identity when dealing with official documents as in for example, council taxes, bank accounts or health records among others and mostly, when dealing with documents between the UK and another country.

It is also bringing personal identity problemas as we have to adopt names which are not who we really are.

As Scotland is considered an inclusive country, I make the petition that in any kind of registration, not matter if it is a more official one as in councils, NHS, workplaces or,  just in less official ones as in rent leases, the fact that other nationals need to have all their names included in the registration must be a mandatory action to avoid legal issues in documentation for those citizens.

We all have the right to be accepted in our cultural differences. We all have the right to keep our names in the way that they originally are. We have the right to keep our names written as they originally are in our mother tongue.