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They refused to accept a romanization? If so that's doubly bad. Excusing technical deficiencies is one thing, but preventing people from working around them is

• kgeist 5y ago
  Yes, it had to be identical. The problem with romanization of Cyrillic is that there's no commonly accepted standard, and I suspect the employees who process the applications were very unlikely to be Russian, so they would have no idea how to match our romanized variant to what's found on the ID scans. At least if they allowed Cyrillic in the submit form, they could have compared it visually as a set of pictograms, no need to know Cyrillic by heart. And it wasn't some US-only application thing we ran into by mistake, it talked about providing identification documents "of your country". But for some reason, they excluded all countries which don't use Latin alphabet.
  • secondaryacct 5y ago
    Countries which are getting rarer and rarer. I'm in China and we havent yet faced such problems at the office (we too are mandated to get those certs). But in China, there are 5 Microsoft-approved offline training centers per metro station in any city with IT employees + the flats are so small you cant possible be uninterrupted during the exam during covid, so we mostly go offline.