Situation

ISC occasionally receives applications containing a name with accented characters (e.g. é, â, ç, etc.). In ISC’s system, accented characters are treated differently from unaccented characters. This would prevent a match from being found.

Solution

When you submit an application to ISC, make sure that you include any accented characters in the names you are using in the application. A few examples of accented characters are é, â, and ç. Accents are recognized as characters in the Land Registry and the ability to match a person’s name, character for character, on an incoming application with names already in our system in one of our registries, is vital to the effectiveness of some of ISC’s features.

NOTE: An example of when a name match is important would be when obtaining data from the Judgment Registry to auto-attach a judgment to a newly purchased title.