Applying for schengen Visa with a new passport: old passport has US F1 visa without name change I am going to change the name on my Indian passport from Given Name:ABC XYZ, Surname: "Blank" ----> Given Name:ABC, Surname: XYZ. My US F1 student visa will remain on my old passport with the old name. As far as I've read, this should not cause issues while re-entering the USA as I will have proof of the name change.   The question I have is regarding an application for Schengen Visa (at the Slovenian embassy in the US): will they accept my US F1 visa with the old name as a proof of stay in the United States? Will having these two passports cause problems for getting the Schengen visa?
What are the practical implications of a name change for international travel and activities abroad? I am considering a name change, which seems to be a relatively straightforward action, when one remains in the same country: certain documents are replaced with new ones bearing the new name, and others are presented together with the name change document.  However, I travel internationally multiple times per year, and I often change temporary residence from one country to another. So I often deal with immigration and similar things. Furthermore, I have a lot of things going on like work and studies.  Quite obviously, if I change my name, I would often have to produce a proper translation of the name change document, which may include notarized translation thereof with apostille or, for example, traduction assermentée in France.  However, it would be great to hear about experiences of people, who have dealt with this issue first-hand, so I can weight the disadvantages against advantages of this correctly. In particular, I would like to know if anyone has encountered unforeseen difficulties with this, and how people rate the overall difficulty of such experiences.
Hide deleted answers with certain characteristics Today I exceeded 10K reputation on Stack Overflow, and I see deleted answers.  I am now faced with pages like  where half the answers are "deleted."    Among these are many non-answers deleted by diamond moderators, and a self-deleted answer deleted on Nov 25 '09.  I find this very distracting, especially in my chosen sort order of "oldest" where these deleted answers are NOT displayed at the bottom.  I wish to be able to hide deleted answers based on combinations of characteristics such as:   age since deletion deleted-by-owner deleted by diamond moderators zero undelete votes   This would be a setting every user could enable for himself.    Here are HTML excerpts that may be useful for userscript filtering.  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If I do the following  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tocloft} \addtocontents{toc}{\cftpagenumbersoff{section}} \renewcommand{\cftdot}{} \begin{document} \tableofcontents \newpage \section{Appendix} \section*{Another Letter} \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Another Letter} \end{document}   then the section "Another Letter" is left aligned, so it doesn't look like the  others.  Question  Is it possible to have "Another Letter" styled the same way as normal TOC entries, but just without section number, dots, and page number? $f'(x) = [f(x)]^{2}$. Prove $f(x) = 0 $ Let $f:\mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ be a differentiable function such that $f(0) = 0$ and $f'(x) = [f(x)]^{2}$, $\forall x \in \mathbb{R}$. Show that $f(x) = 0$,  $\forall x \in \mathbb{R} $.  I first (unsuccessfully) tried using the Mean Value Theorem, but this is in the Integrals chapter so the solution probably involves them. Can't really see where integrals come in here though.  What I've got so far:   (i) Since $f$ is differentiable, thus it is continuous and, hence,  integrable. Therefore $f^2$ is also integrable and as $f'=f^2$, $f'$ is too.   (ii) $f' \geq 0$, $\forall x \in \mathbb{R}$ When it's OK to omit "where?" How do I create subtle background gradients like this? This has been bugging me for ages. I want to recreate the shadows that are on the background of this image. Whenever I attempt to recreate something like this the shading ends up looking very amateur no matter how much noise or blur I add or how many layers I introduce. I would really appreciate help on this! Why do Windows 10 foreground apps mysteriously launch as background processes? Badge request: "Practically Perfect in Every Way" Why does a 12V 2A adapter measure only 0.358A on a multimeter? I assume that the multimeter should read 2A, why is it only 0.358A? If this is how it is supposed to be, why? 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I'm interested both in where to put the files on the filesystem itself, and how to go about using Eclipse's functionality to set up the resources. Question: If $c\neq 1$ is an $n^{th}$ root of unity then, $1+c+...+c^{n-1} = 0$  Attempt: So I have established that I need to show that $$\sum^{n-1}_{k=0} e^{\frac{i2k\pi}{n}}=\frac{1-e^{\frac{ik2\pi}{n}}}{1-e^{\frac{i2\pi}{n}}} =0$$ by use of the sum of geometric series'. My issue is proceeding further to show that this is indeed true.