French / American Couple - nom d'usage? 3 middle names...

[WC_AD 8]

Hello,

My French fiancé's passport has a nom and a nom d'usage and this is making my life complicated for the I-129F forms ! ... for example:

prénom: Jack

nom: Smith

nom d'usage: Smith-Stevens

(pas vraiment français )

So in his passport it says:

nom (name) : Smith usage Smith-Stevens

What last name should I be putting on all of his forms for the united states? Will they even get why he has these two different last names in his passport and what they mean?

Also, he has two middle names, one of which is hyphenated too ... so kind of like 3 ... is listing each name necessary?

Example, in his passport it says something like:

Prénom (name): Jack, John, Mark-Paul ... should all of this go in his forms or can I omit these? I feel like his eventual green-card won't be able to fit all of his names, haha: Jack John Mark-Paul Smith-Stevens .... a little much, no?

Any experience with this, other French/American couples?

Thanks !

[WC_AD 8]

Hello,

My French fiancé's passport has a nom and a nom d'usage and this is making my life complicated for the I-129F forms ! ... for example:

prénom: Jack

nom: Smith

nom d'usage: Smith-Stevens

(pas vraiment français )

So in his passport it says:

nom (name) : Smith usage Smith-Stevens

What last name should I be putting on all of his forms for the united states? Will they even get why he has these two different last names in his passport and what they mean?

Also, he has two middle names, one of which is hyphenated too ... so kind of like 3 ... is listing each name necessary?

Example, in his passport it says something like:

Prénom (first name): Jack, John, Mark-Paul ... should all of this go in his forms or can I omit these? I feel like his eventual green-card won't be able to fit all of his names, haha: Jack John Mark-Paul Smith-Stevens .... a little much, no?

Any experience with this, other French/American couples?

Thanks !

A little edit to my first post, to be more clear:

He only uses "Jack Smith-Stevens" for any administrative/bank/diplomas/work contracts/phone bills in France.

We want to be sure that for his USA K-1 visa and eventual green-card would all have the name that he uses to cause less problems administratively in the States in the future.

A good example was a student visa to Taiwan where they picked every single element of his name from his passport :

"JACK JOHN MARK-PAUL SMITH USAGE SMITH-STEVENS" that was actually cut at "JACK JOHN MARK-PAUL SMITH USAG"

because the whole name did not fit......

Thanks!

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A little edit to my first post, to be more clear:

He only uses "Jack Smith-Stevens" for any administrative/bank/diplomas/work contracts/phone bills in France.

We want to be sure that for his USA K-1 visa and eventual green-card would all have the name that he uses to cause less problems administratively in the States in the future.

A good example was a student visa to Taiwan where they picked every single element of his name from his passport :

"JACK JOHN MARK-PAUL SMITH USAGE SMITH-STEVENS" that was actually cut at "JACK JOHN MARK-PAUL SMITH USAG"

because the whole name did not fit......

Thanks!

Not sure if you've already figured out what to do, but this is what I did in my similar situation:

My French husband took my name after we got married, so (using your example names) his passport says

last name: Smith

usage: Stevens

So all his stuff here in France are Jack Stevens, though not everything, since some stuff they only use your birth name (like our son's birth certificate).

I put Stevens as his last on the i-130, with Smith in "other names used", and in my cover letter I explained that in France, you never totally change your name and he goes by Stevens, even though some official papers will only say Smith. I mostly wrote the explanation because I was worried they wouldn't accept a different name for a married man, whereas with married women, they're used to different names.

The NOA1 I got said Jack Stevens, so I guess it was ok!