The Full Form of FNU is First Name Unknown.
Such is life in the U.S. as an FNU, for “First Name Unknown,” the acronym assigned by American authorities to visa applicants with only one name. This nation of immigrants has managed to handle long names that spill out of boxes on official forms, or contain letters that don’t exist in the English alphabet.
If the surname is not included in the passport as in the following example: Given Name: Happy Traveler; Surname: Blank.
The visa will be issued as follows: Given Name: FNU; Surname: Happy Traveler
If the passport contains only the surname of the holder and not a given name as in the following example: Given Name: blank; Surname: Happy Traveler
FNU
means
First Name Unknown
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