Jackolantern
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The OP's middle name was used on credit cards, passport, and driver's license. Not just a school certificate. With that much usage, it should have been listed in the "other names used" section of the N-400.Middle name is a person's own name. Sometimes it's used for religious purposes. People add their father's name as their middle name and don't officially use it on some of the legal papers. For example, there are people who write their dad's name on school documents, but not on their birth certificate. It's not necessary to include a name that's only on a school certificate.
Yes it can, depending on what country you're from. Ever heard of the basketball player Dikembe Mutombo? Mutombo isn't his last name, it's one of his middle names.Besides a middle name cannot be used as a last name.
Either you and your brother got a lenient IO, or they already included your middle name in the background checks because they saw the middle name elsewhere in your file before the interview.Funny how you say it's a Big deal. but the IO who interviewed me and my brother didn't seem to care at all. Maybe the USCIS in your jurisdiction is one of its kind and can denaturalize or prevent oath individuals for not mentioning their middle names on an application.
There have been cases where the interviewer noticed the middle name was omitted, and requested a new name check that included the middle name. Names are material information for background checks, so theoretically one could be denaturalized for omitting a middle name, although it may have never actually happened.