SSN: Middle name then first name as "given name" on i-94

[Nowrya 59]

My fiancee entered the US about 10 days ago on a K1-visa. She is from Vietnam. The US consulate in HCMC lists the given name on K1 visas in the passports as: middle then first name. She has 2 middle names and 1 first name, ex: Thi Thuy (middle) Vy (first).

But when we printed out the i-94 form it only listed her name as Thi. We went to the local Social Security Office and the person there said we needed to fix that since that isn't her first name. So we drove a long distance to a CBP office and the refused to just enter her first name as Vy. But instead they listed her entire middle and first name as the given name: Thi Thuy Vy

We weren't able to make it back to a SS Office before it closed.

 

Now I'm worried that her given name wont match her real first name on her marriage certificate (we will be getting married very soon). And it wont match up for when she wants to get an ID or driver's licence.

 

Wont this throw up some serious delays and road blocks later in the future for the rest of her life?? The name wont technically be correct on her Social Security Card. Should we just get married and put her first name down as "Thi Thuy Vy" with no middle name?? But that isn't what is on her Vietnamese birth certificate. The rest of her life her first name will be wrong on everything.

 

I read many posts on here that the people at the CBP office (PoE) will change her name just to be her first name but that is not the case anymore. The head guy there said they have to list it exactly as it is listed on her visa. I told him that the US Consulate in Vietnam list the middle then first name on the visa so it matches the passport. He just kept saying her name has to match the visa.

[Scandi 4,166]

I had issues with my name too. My first SSC looked completely f*ucked up as ALL my names were clumped together in one loooong word. When we fixed our marriage license I obviously wrote my name correctly on it and after the wedding I went back to the SSA to have the name changed, they then went totally by the marriage certificate and not what was in the immigrant database. 4 days later I got a new SS card with the correct name on it (I also changed to my husband's surname). 

Edited May 21, 2017 by Scandi

[Nowrya 59]

Thanks for the fast response!

I did ask the person at the Social Security office if that would be an option, changing it to match the marriage certificate after we get married. She said only the last name is changed after we get married. But she seemed like a complete idiot. I have my doubts it will work, but maybe it will.

[Scandi 4,166]

Sometimes the intelligence and knowledge differ quite a bit from SS office to SS office, and from SS employer to SS employer. The first time I applied for mine they told me they have to go strictly by what it says in the immigrant database, which is probably true and also what happened to you. When I went back after the wedding with my marriage certificate it was no issue at all to put my name on the card exactly the way it looks on my marriage certificate. But who knows, maybe it depends on which office you go to and who you talk to.

[f1660114 18]

Every Vietnamese citizen who got US visa nowadays (since April 2016) got the same issue like you pointed out (if you can read Vietnamese here is the ref http://xuatnhapcanh.com/threads/tng-lanh-s-quan-m-da-thay-di-cach-vit-ten-nguoi-tren-th-thc-m-2016.27460/). There is no efficient way to fix it unless you are to submit a name change petition to the local court to change the legal name. Then change the name on every ID including SSN afterwards.

 

"You may have heard that the U.S. Embassy and Consulate have made changes to the name order printed on U.S. visas. As of Spring 2016, U.S. Mission Vietnam Consular offices have been issuing immigrant and nonimmigrant visas to Vietnamese citizens with names exactly in the order as on the Vietnam passport biographic page. This ensures that the information contained on U.S. visas meet international travel document standards."

Edited May 21, 2017 by f1660114
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[D and L 1]

11 hours ago, f1660114 said:

Every Vietnamese citizen who got US visa nowadays (since April 2016) got the same issue like you pointed out (if you can read Vietnamese here is the ref http://xuatnhapcanh.com/threads/tng-lanh-s-quan-m-da-thay-di-cach-vit-ten-nguoi-tren-th-thc-m-2016.27460/). There is no efficient way to fix it unless you are to submit a name change petition to the local court to change the legal name. Then change the name on every ID including SSN afterwards.

 

"You may have heard that the U.S. Embassy and Consulate have made changes to the name order printed on U.S. visas. As of Spring 2016, U.S. Mission Vietnam Consular offices have been issuing immigrant and nonimmigrant visas to Vietnamese citizens with names exactly in the order as on the Vietnam passport biographic page. This ensures that the information contained on U.S. visas meet international travel document standards."

 

Is there anything that we could do or someone that we could tell at the Consulate in Vietnam after our interview to make sure that they could do it correctly to avoid this mistakes before they issue the visa?