Adding Middle Name in Application for a Social Security Card

[panda-and-penguin 2]

Hello,

  My fiancee has just arrived in the USA. We are going to the Social Security office this week to get an SSN so she can open her bank account.

 

  We have had a discussion before that because she is Chinese and there is no middle name, she should use the English name that she has been using social for many year as her middle name in USA documents. She often uses this name is social situations because people have problems pronouncing and remembering her Chinese name. She has no plan to change her last name to my last name after the marriage because she wants to keep a Chinese name for her business as a translator and Chinese teacher. 

 

  So our question is, if we add a middle name at this point to her Social Security Application and then the AOS application, etc, will it cause problems when returning from China? Will the airline or customs in China refuse to let her leave China to go USA because the name on the green card would have a middle and the original passport would not have a middle name?

 

Warm Regards,

Man Panda

 

[Scandi 4,166]

You can't just add a name, you have to go by what the passport says. The SSA will go by what is in the immigrations system, that is the info that comes from the CBP officer scanning her passport at the POE.

[Tam&Luke 30]

Whatever is on the i94 and visa itself is what the SS office will go by.    They did it where his first middle and last name was his FIRST name and his 4th name as his last name.   So the SS office did the same.    When we filed K1 to AOS we always used his birth name which is first middle and first last name.    

[panda-and-penguin 2]

The Ss-5 form has 2 boxes, one says NAME TO BE SHOWN ON CARD and the other FULL NAME AT BIRTH IF OTHER THAN ABOVE. So you guys are saying,  if we fill out the first one with the middle name and the second with the passport name, they will reject the form?

 

pan man

Edited March 5, 2017 by panda-and-penguin

[Scandi 4,166]

The SSA won't reject anything, they will only send you a card in the name that is in the immigration system, regardless of what you put on that form.