what is my official name (state ID or passport)

[mrs.sr 0]

Hi all,

I am the petitioner for sending my husband's AOS, and my name on my SSN card differs from my name on Passport - SSN and birth certificate has a middle name but neither passport or drivers license has middle name. Should I include my middle name in all the forms, or leave it out?

Also, my husband's birth certificate in India just has "SR" for last name, and here in the US he has a middle and last name spelled out. Is this going to be a problem since we have to send the birth certificate in?

thx in advance for your advice!!

-a

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

You don't have to show your SS card, only passport and driver license (as form of ID at the interview), so there's not really a problem.

[VanessaTony 3,567]

Your proper name is the name you were given at birth. The only way to change your name is by marriage, or by deed poll (think that's what it's called in the US). For this reason you must include your middle name.

It seems when filling out paperwork you have elected to not include your middle name (i.e. your passport and drivers licence) however it is part of your full legal name so that's what you need to use... and that is why your SSN includes it.

For future reference, you should always include your full proper name on all paperwork. My husband is called Tony by his friends and myself, yet I would never write Tony as his name as it is Anthony and that is his LEGAL name. If there is a spot for "preferred name" then I would write Tony but otherwise it's Anthony.

Also, my father has 2 middle names so that's what we write for him (however annoying), same for my brother. An ex-boyfriend was foreign and had 6 "names" total. He went by only 2 of those in his professional life but admitted that in all paperwork he had to write them all.

Edited January 10, 2010 by Vanessa&Tony

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Hi all,

I am the petitioner for sending my husband's AOS, and my name on my SSN card differs from my name on Passport - SSN and birth certificate has a middle name but neither passport or drivers license has middle name. Should I include my middle name in all the forms, or leave it out?

Also, my husband's birth certificate in India just has "SR" for last name, and here in the US he has a middle and last name spelled out. Is this going to be a problem since we have to send the birth certificate in?

thx in advance for your advice!!

-a

Include your middle name. Your husbands name should be exactly as on his VISA which should be as on his passport. In the AOS process, the name on the VISA rules.

Edited January 10, 2010 by Gary and Alla

[mrs.sr 0]

Include your middle name. Your husbands name should be exactly as on his VISA which should be as on his passport. In the AOS process, the name on the VISA rules.

soo..... if I include my middle name, but it is NOT on my passport or my state ID, and it IS on my birth cert. and SSN, is this going to be a problem?? should I try to get the BMV to add in my middle name...?

[VanessaTony 3,567]

soo..... if I include my middle name, but it is NOT on my passport or my state ID, and it IS on my birth cert. and SSN, is this going to be a problem?? should I try to get the BMV to add in my middle name...?

Well I don't think it should be a problem, but you should take your birth certificate with you which proves your correct name.

Also if i were you, over time (like when renewals come up) I would correct all my I.D, or if you truly don't like your middle name, change it. It's kinda like someone spelt your name wrong, you really should fix it.

Edited January 10, 2010 by Vanessa&Tony

[mrs.sr 0]

Well I don't think it should be a problem, but you should take your birth certificate with you which proves your correct name.

Also if i were you, over time (like when renewals come up) I would correct all my I.D, or if you truly don't like your middle name, change it. It's kinda like someone spelt your name wrong, you really should fix it.

Thanks, all. I decided to try to get my middle name onto more of my documents, to make everything consistent, so I'll try to go do that this week on as many things as possible. it actually didnt get onto my passport or several other things for no particular reason at all and over time I've had at random different names on different documents, even at one point three different spellings of my LAST name (that part got fixed at some point a few years ago). when you dont think you're going to ever have to prove any documents, you dont' really notice these discrepencies.