Green card and SS card name match passport or birth certificate?

[underdawg 0]

I am a US citizen and sponsored my father for an immigrant visa. His name on his birth certificate is John Adam but the name on his passport is John Adam Smith. I filed his I-130 with his name as John Adam. Based on advice I got from the NVC I filed the immigrant visa application primarily with the name John Adam Smith while listing John Adam as a name that he also uses. So the names on his passport and immigrant visa match (John Adam Smith).

On his immigrant visa application we selected the option to apply for a social security number in the same application. My question is once he arrives in the US and he gets his social security card and green card in the mail, which name(s) will these cards bear?

Thanks

[apple21 953]

It will bear the same name that's printed on his immigrant visa.

Technically the visa bears the same name as the passport.

Edited February 4, 2015 by apple21