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Hi,

Instead of explaining, i will just write the example:

#1. My wife's name before marriage in her education records: Sunita Kumari (last name missing).
In Indian passport : Sunita Mathur (name changed, removed Kumari).
She never used Sinita Kumari name after the marriage. All travel to us/visa are in the name of Sunita Mathur. Her education records have her old name. She does not have birth certificate.

Should she write:
C. If you have used other names, provide them below:

Family Name: leave blank or write NO LAST NAME or sonething else
First Name: Sunita
Middle name: Kumari

or suggestions?


#2. My daughter's last name was missing from her Indian passport when she first came with us to US.
After coming to US, I got her last name included in Indian Passport and I have to give advt. in Indian and US news paper to declare the name change. It was the the requirement of Indian Passport issuing authority. Now she has correct name as Sajal Mathur

Should she write:
C. If you have used other names, provide them below:

Family Name: leave blank
First Name: Sajal
Middle name: leave blank

or suggestions?

#3. I use my initials at my office. Though in all office records, I have my full name but in day to day communication I use OP Mathur, like time off or emails etc.

Should I write:
C. If you have used other names, provide them below:

Family Name: Mathur
First Name: OP
Middle name:

or suggestions?

Some more small confusions:

#4. while writing the A# should I start A123-456-789 in the box in N-400 or just 123-456-789.
#5. The dates in 5 year home addresses : should be mm/dd/yyyy or mm/yyyy?

Thank you very much for reading this and replying. I appriciate your help.
 
1. For previous names, your wife should enter the LAST name to be Kumari, not the middle name because Kumari was her maiden surname.
2. Correct entry for your daughter's previous name. I'm surprised that a passport was issued without a surname. You should take proof of the name change when you go to the interview.
3. For your own case, I don't think you need to enter OP Mathur as an alternate name because your official records at work have your full name. OP can be seen as a shortened form of the name, sort of like people named Robert being called Bob.
4. Write just the numbers only. The A# box already has the A prefixed on the form.
5. Use the mm/yyyy format.
 
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JPBoston said:
1. For previous names, your wife should enter the LAST name to be Kumari, not the middle name because Kumari was her maiden surname.
2. Correct entry for your daughter's previous name. I'm surprised that a passport was issued without a surname. You should take proof of the name change when you go to the interview.
3. For your own case, I don't think you need to enter OP Mathur as an alternate name because your official records at work have your full name. OP can be seen as a shortened form of the name, sort of like people named Robert being called Bob.
4. Write just the numbers only. The A# box already has the A prefixed on the form.
5. Use the mm/yyyy format.
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Thanks for the quick reply.
1. The Family Name for my wife is Sexana. Like her father's name is Sexana but it is not in her Educational records. So can I still rite kumari as last name. As you know that kumar and kumari use to be very common middle name.
2. My daughter did not have her last name in the passport and when I came to US my offiec attorney suggested that I dhould include her last name and then I have to go thru the newspaper advt etc. and she got her last name included in her passport. First name is still the same. They just added her last name now. If I leave her last name blank in the Question C, will the USCIS not conclude that I forget to mention it and it is incomplete. She has correct name in her GC and all communication with USCIS in the past. As I got her last name included before starting my GC.
 
1. Yes so since her school records had her name as Sunita Kumari, enter Kumari as the last name.
2. I see your point regarding your daughter's situation however you will have the opportunity to explain that situation at the interview if it ever even came up as a discussion point. Do you have your daughter's old passport with her name just being Sajal? Take that as well as her current passport with you as proof at the interview.
 
Yes I do have old passport with just the first name (missing last name).
As the first name has been same and just the last name was missing from passportwhen she first came to US, does it still make sense to write the answer in Question C.

C. If you have used other names, provide them below:

Family Name: leave blank
First Name: Sajal
Middle name: leave blank

My worry is that if she leaves the last name blank, USCIS may think that she forget to write this and the application is incomplete.

How about writing 'NO LAST NAME' in the family/last name column to this question?
 
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BTW, how old is your daughter now? If she is still a minor, she does not need to have her own N-400 application and so that question is not even needed. In this case, when you or your wife become naturalized citizens, she automatically will become a citizen too under the derivation rule. If she is not a minor, then she will need her own N-400 application and I would answer that previous names question with her name as Sajal since she has an official passport with that name and she entered the US with it. You can explain that at the interview if it ever comes up.
 
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Thanks again.
How about writing 'NO LAST NAME' in the family/last name column to this question?

She is 19.
I think it is good idea to write Kumari as last name for my wife as suggested by you. Though I dont have a proof when I removed it and put mathur as her last name except that it shows on her indian educational certificates.

I am still not sure if I should write my OP Mathur as response to Question C.
As I have been using this name on time off and emails and most people know me with this name.
 
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Any other thoughts.

I am thinking to put my name also as mathur op as other names.
Will they ask for a proof for the name change? as it is not a name change but people call me and I use this name in office communications.
 
For your daughter's case, I suppose if you wrote "No Last Name" (including the quotes marks) in that column, it would be understood by anyone reviewing the app. And it can be explained during the interview.

My personal opinion is that if you do not use your other names like OP Mathur in any official documents, then don't mention it. The key is whether you have used that name officially and it has since changed. I think informal variations of your name does not need to mentioned. Regarding email, here at my work, people like Robert, James, Steven have their names show up on our email as Bob/Rob, Jim and Steve because that is how they are informally called. Go with whatever makes you comfortable and just remember that you can explain everything at the interview.
 
thanks JPBoston. My only worry is that if I mention OP Mathur, will they ask for name change. I have a payphone and I used my short name to get that. May be I might have used for other places. but all official documents where I need to provide my SSN, I have always used my complete name (utility/phone/credit card/sams membership) or any other place needing the ssn has my complete name.

I feel more comfortable disclosing my short name too but my worry, if they ask for name change from short to full, I dont have any document as a matter of fact i never changed, JUST I used it that way.

It is a good idea for my daughter as to say "NO LAST NAME". Thank you so very much. But will it not make the FBI name check more complicated? How about just forget the other names for her as the Last Name was not changed but it was missing in the indian passport?


I am using KUMARI as last name for my wife too as it was in her educational certificates but pasport and visa and GC has Sunita Mathur. and I also dont have a proof for her to for name change as I did it in india before getting her passport.


thanks again
 
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Go with what makes you comfortable regarding your alternate name. If I was in your position, I would feel comfortable not including that name variant only because I don't have any official documents using that name. Again this is just me and you have to decide for yourself what feels right for you. If you do include your shortened name, it can explained in the interview anyway and maybe you can print out some sample emails and take that with you to the interview to show the IO that is what you are informally called in the office.
 
Thanks JPBoston for the advice. I dont want a suitation(I know it is close to 0%) where they find out that I use my short name. Thanks
 
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