N400 Question about: C. If you have used other names, provide them below:

[emno 0]

Hi,

Instead of explaining, i will just write the example (Actual Names changed):

#1. My wife's name before marriage in her education records: Sunita Kumari (last name missing).

In Indian passport : Sunita Mathur (name changed, removed Kumari).

She never used Sinita Kumari name after the marriage. All travel to us/visa are in the name of Sunita Mathur. Her education records have her old name. She does not have birth certificate.

Should she write:

C. If you have used other names, provide them below:

Family Name: leave blank or write NO LAST NAME or sonething else

First Name: Sunita

Middle name: Kumari

or suggestions?

#2. My daughter's last name was missing from her Indian passport when she first came with us to US.

After coming to US, I got her last name included in Indian Passport and I have to give advt. in Indian and US news paper to declare the name change. It was the the requirement of Indian Passport issuing authority. Now she has correct name as Sajal Mathur

Should she write:

C. If you have used other names, provide them below:

Family Name: leave blank

First Name: Sajal

Middle name: leave blank

or suggestions?

#3. I use my initials at my office. Though in all office records, I have my full name but in day to day communication I use OP Mathur, like time off or emails etc.

Should I write:

C. If you have used other names, provide them below:

Family Name: Mathur

First Name: OP

Middle name:

or suggestions?

Oner more small confusions:

#5. The dates in 5 year home addresses : should be mm/dd/yyyy or mm/yyyy?

Thank you very much for reading this and replying. I appriciate your help.

[NickD 203]

In our case, wife had her maiden name and previously marriage, so we had to fill in two of the three blanks. Her friend was divorced three times so needed four blanks and had to use a separate sheet of paper.

In any case, best to be completely honest and complete and list all the names that were used with an explanation, even though you have to use a separate sheet of paper.

One problem we did run into however was her country didn't know how to type and we needed documentation to back up the names we put in. To do that, she had to go to court, and if you didn't want to wait three years for a court date, had to slide a couple of US bucks under the table, actually quite a bit more than a couple of bucks. It was their errors, but we had to pay to get it corrected. I see the B and V are next to each other on a standard keyboard and that was the major error. But all this was done during our AOS stage, for the N-400, it was smooth sailing because all that was done previously.

Certainly you went through all that, why is it a problem now at the very end?

We showed continuity from the N-400 back to her I-485 and G-325A. They also screwed up her daughters birth certificate, that was another couple of bucks under the table, but ironically they got their state ID done correctly, but that is done in person. All names have to match.

[emno 0]

any other thoughts?

[emno 0]

any other thoughts on this please.