Can you change your full name to whatever you want at the interview?

[icar 1]

Say your name is Juan Lopez. Can you change it to John Smith at the interview?

Even if you had previously chosen the option for "no" on the N-400 application?

[BigDaddy28 228]

You could you can ask the officer that you want a name change.

[cicitsang 0]

yes,you can request name change,when you go to interview,and this time is for free!good luck

[HeatDeath 430]

One of the purposes of the interview is to check and, if necessary, revise any aspect of the N-400 form that needs modification before the adjudicating immigration officer signs off on it. So yeah, I don't think it will cause any problems if you let the IO at the interview know that you do, in fact, want to do a legal name change as part of your naturalization.

FYI: the name change officially takes place during the oath ceremony, not at the interview. Name changes in the US are technically done as motions to a court, as are [technically] the naturalizations. USCIS is not legally empowered to make anybody a citizen, or change anybody's name. Only a judge can do that, by approving a motion during a session of court. So every oath ceremony is actually a session of court - USCIS formally submits a set of motions to have the approved immigrants be naturalized, an officer of the court administers the oath, and the judge approves the motions. Your name change, if you choose to have one, is one of the motions in the big bundle of motions USCIS submits to the court, in addition to your naturalization, and it is approved by the judge with the rest of the naturalization motions.

[Autumnal 25]

Yes, you can. I divorced two years prior to filing my N-400 and resumed my maiden name as part of my divorce decree. I remarried after I filed my N-400. The immigration officer asked me if I wanted to assume a new name, married name, or completely make myself something different. It was a tad surreal.