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Hi everyone, I m filling out an N-600 for a child from Egypt and I m confused about the name section.

He has 6 names total, and under Egyptian naming convention they re not really middle names in the Western sense. The issue is that his name is shortened differently on different documents:

• Egyptian birth certificate = full name

• Egyptian passport = shortened

• green card = shortened differently

• Social Security card = shortened differently too

So I m not sure what the best way is to fill out the USCIS name fields.

Can you just put first name + last name and leave the middle name blank?

Or, if the person has multiple names, do you put everything that isn t the first name or last name into the middle name field?

I m trying to figure out what people usually do in this situation, especially for N-600 or other USCIS forms, so it matches USCIS records and doesn t cause problems later.

Would like to hear people's experiences. Did you get your waiver approved quicker? Any tips on how to speed it up?

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We've emailed them, the interview portal, called the embassy, checked on the CEAC website; still looks to be in transit. Does DHL usually take this long? I know we might have a more peculiar situation since we're waiting on the Ankara embassy in Turkiye, and the current events may be making it harder. We're about to file our DS-160 anyway; is this normal? Thank you for reading!

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