N-400 "other names" or include identity affidavit?

[Bill Hamze 89]

So we're coming up on my wife's 3 year anniversary since she entered the country in June 2022, and we're starting to prepare to file N-400. 

 

One thing we have together is a mortgage deed, but on closing, they didn't put down her full legal name, only part of it. 

 

For example (I'm making up a fictional name), her full legal name is "Thi Kim Hoa Nguyen" where the first name portion is "Thi Kim Hoa" and the last name is "Nguyen". 

 

On most of our legal documents, we have her full legal name. But our mortgage deed only has "Hoa Nguyen". I wish I had the foresight to catch that on our home purchase closing, but we were too excited, and what's done is done. I don't want to change the title or otherwise mess with the mortgage deed, so that's a nonstarter.

 

So that leaves two options:

 

1) Fill out an identity / "same person" affidavit to say that "Hoa Nguyen" and "Thi Kim Hoa Nguyen" are the same person, and get it notarized. Submit along with existing mortgage deed as part of our evidence.

 

2) Just write "Hoa Nguyen" in the "Other Names Used" portion of the N-400 form if it's there. Skip the affidavit. 

 

Which one should I do?

Edited 18 hours ago by Bill Hamze
Forgot to include last part

[OldUser 8,161]

Welp, I think you have bigger problems than listing other names used on N-400. There's no harm in disclosing it on form. However, from life perspective, if her name is incorrect on deed, she may not be able to manage ownership of this property if you're no longer around etc.

[Bill Hamze 89]

5 minutes ago, OldUser said:

Welp, I think you have bigger problems than listing other names used on N-400. There's no harm in disclosing it on form. However, from life perspective, if her name is incorrect on deed, she may not be able to manage ownership of this property if you're no longer around etc.

 

That's probably something I'm gonna have to work through with a lawyer. But that's probably outside the scope of filing N-400?

[OldUser 8,161]

6 minutes ago, Bill Hamze said:

 

That's probably something I'm gonna have to work through with a lawyer. But that's probably outside the scope of filing N-400?

Yes

[Bill Hamze 89]

2 minutes ago, OldUser said:

Yes

 

Thanks. I can probably ask an attorney to do a quit claim deed to fix the name or something. Probably better than affidavit anyhow.