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CALPADS error brief · IVR

IVR0009

Invalid Characters in Field
Severity Fatal
Error type Input Validation
Record type IVR

Official CALPADS rule

What CALPADS is rejecting

Field must only contain Alphabetic letters, numbers, periods, hyphens apostrophes, forward slashes, spaces. Alphabetic characters with accents, tildes, or umlauts are allowed. Valid characters are based on the UTF-8 character set standards.

Focus fields

Fields validated

2.11 - Student Legal First Name 2.12 - Student Legal Middle Name 2.13 - Student Legal Last Name 2.15 - Student Alias First Name 2.16 - Student Alias Middle Name 2.17 - Student Alias Last Name 2.20 - Student Birth City 2.31 - Address Line 1 2.32 - Address Line 2 2.33 - Address City Name 2.34 - Address State Province Code 2.35 - Address Zip Code 2.39 - Guardian 1 First Name 2.40 - Guardian 1 Last Name 2.41 - Guardian 2 First Name 2.42 - Guardian 2 Last Name 2.43 - Student Preferred First Name 2.44 - Student Preferred Last Name 2.45 Mailing Address Line 1 2.46 Mailing Address Line 2 2.47 Mailing Address City Name 2.48 Mailing Address State Province Code 2.49 Mailing Address Zip Code

Recommended correction path

Suggested resolution

Frequently affected fields

Legal, alias, and preferred names; birth city; residential and mailing addresses; guardian names.

Severity: Fatal   Type: Input Validation

Character check

-Hyphen
'Apostrophe
.Period
/Forward slash
ÑSupported letter

Inspect for smart punctuation, tabs, line breaks, emojis, control characters, ampersands, backslashes, and copied formatting. Do not remove legitimate accents merely because another invalid character exists.

Minimal correction path

  1. 1

    Locate the exact character

    Inspect raw text and character encoding.

  2. 2

    Verify the source spelling/address

    Preserve legal names and supported diacritics.

  3. 3

    Correct entry or transformation

    Remove only unauthorized content and repair the extract.

  4. 4

    Resubmit and scan peers

    Check pasted/imported values from the same source.

Official IVR0009 page