Middle Name Question.

[dxg68 0]

Like all Russian and Ukrainian people my fiancé has a long middle name. Her middle name is in her birth certificate and in her Ukrainian passport but not in her travel passport (passport that she has to bring to embassy). She believes that this is how the travel passports are issued – without people’s middle name. I am working on I-129 petition to USCIS and for now I included her middle name on all forms. My concern is that later she will have to fill out DS-156 for her interview and field 7 says “First and Middle Name (As in Passport)”. Then she will have her middle name everywhere else including her birth certificate but not in her travel passport and DS-156. I am wondering how everybody else handled this problem. Thank you very much!!!

[Joe_&_Nadiya 1]

Like all Russian and Ukrainian people my fiancé has a long middle name. Her middle name is in her birth certificate and in her Ukrainian passport but not in her travel passport (passport that she has to bring to embassy). She believes that this is how the travel passports are issued – without people's middle name. I am working on I-129 petition to USCIS and for now I included her middle name on all forms. My concern is that later she will have to fill out DS-156 for her interview and field 7 says "First and Middle Name (As in Passport)". Then she will have her middle name everywhere else including her birth certificate but not in her travel passport and DS-156. I am wondering how everybody else handled this problem. Thank you very much!!!

We filled out all K-1 forms with my wife's middle name, but when it came time for DS-156 we used her name exactly as it appeared on her international passport. It didn't cause any problems.

Joe.

Edited October 25, 2009 by Joe & Nadya

[dxg68 0]

We filled out all K-1 forms with my wife's middle name, but when it came time for DS-156 we used her name exactly as it appeared on her international passport. It didn't cause any problems.

Joe.

Joe,

Could you please tell if Nadya has her middle name written in her travel passport? Thank you!

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Like all Russian and Ukrainian people my fiancé has a long middle name. Her middle name is in her birth certificate and in her Ukrainian passport but not in her travel passport (passport that she has to bring to embassy). She believes that this is how the travel passports are issued – without people’s middle name. I am working on I-129 petition to USCIS and for now I included her middle name on all forms. My concern is that later she will have to fill out DS-156 for her interview and field 7 says “First and Middle Name (As in Passport)”. Then she will have her middle name everywhere else including her birth certificate but not in her travel passport and DS-156. I am wondering how everybody else handled this problem. Thank you very much!!!

Her belief is correct. Her patrynomic (not technically a middle name) is her father's first name with the appropriate feminine suffix, is not in the foreign passport. (not any I have seen, no to say there isn't one out there)

Fill in all forms with her complete name, but the visa will be issued in the name exactly as in the passport, which means, most likely, no middle name. Alla does translations of Ukrainian and Russian documents and you will also have multiple spellings and transliterations of her name, not a concern. The cinsulate will accept any reasonable spelling and print the visa exactly as it says in the passport.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Alla and both our boys do not. We see lots of copies of Ukrainian passports, birth certificates and internal passports. I haven't seen a foreign passport with the patrynomic yet.

[dxg68 0]

Gary, Thank you for the explanation!

[Joe_&_Nadiya 1]

Joe,

Could you please tell if Nadya has her middle name written in her travel passport? Thank you!

Nope...Nadiya doesn't have a middle name on her international passport.

Good luck

Joe.