My wife and I got our Green Cards about a month ago. We have both had CA Drivers Licenses for 10 years. We went to the local SS office today to request new SS# cards without the restrictive "INS" legend on them.
Everything went smoothly, but the SS officer noted that our names on our GC only used initals for our middle names, instead of the full middle names, while our (legacy) SS cards had our names spelled in full. She recommended that our new SS cards match our GCs EXACTLY, so she ordered new cards with our middle names just as initials.
When she looked at our DLs, where our middle names are spelled in full, she pointed out that renewing them (in 2006) might be a problem because the presentation of the middle names between the SS card, the GC and DL won't be consistent... and that the computer systems they use to cross-reference things count the number of characters or something like that.
This all sounds stupidly bureaucratic to me, but she said in the event that our DLs were not automatically renewed we should visit the DMV and request that our DL renewals be issued with our middle names just showing as initials so that all three documents match precisely.
Was she just being ridiculous, or could there be something to her observation? We've always received automatic renewals of our DLs, regardless of the presentation of our middle names between USCIS documents, SS records and DMV records.
After all, our passports have our full middle names (naturally) and the fact that our GCs only have our middle name initials didn't seem to bother the POE officer last time we entered the country!
Everything went smoothly, but the SS officer noted that our names on our GC only used initals for our middle names, instead of the full middle names, while our (legacy) SS cards had our names spelled in full. She recommended that our new SS cards match our GCs EXACTLY, so she ordered new cards with our middle names just as initials.
When she looked at our DLs, where our middle names are spelled in full, she pointed out that renewing them (in 2006) might be a problem because the presentation of the middle names between the SS card, the GC and DL won't be consistent... and that the computer systems they use to cross-reference things count the number of characters or something like that.
This all sounds stupidly bureaucratic to me, but she said in the event that our DLs were not automatically renewed we should visit the DMV and request that our DL renewals be issued with our middle names just showing as initials so that all three documents match precisely.
Was she just being ridiculous, or could there be something to her observation? We've always received automatic renewals of our DLs, regardless of the presentation of our middle names between USCIS documents, SS records and DMV records.
After all, our passports have our full middle names (naturally) and the fact that our GCs only have our middle name initials didn't seem to bother the POE officer last time we entered the country!
