Hello,
I have a fairly confusing situation with regards to my middle name. Being from the former USSR, I do not have a middle name per se, but rather have a patronymic name which, from the USCIS perspective, is interpreted as a middle name.
Here's what I have on various documents:
- Russian passport: first name, patronymic name, last name in russian, only first and last name in english.
- SS card: first name, middle [derived from patronymic] name, last name, all fully spelled out
- GC: first name, middle initial, last name (yes, even at the bottom part where they have <<< characters, as well as at the top part)
- I-485 application: as on SS card (fully spelled out).
So I do assume that USCIS has my full middle/patronymic name on record somewhere and perhaps it was considered too long to fit even at the bottom part of GC.
Based on that assumption I plan to put my fully spelled out name in the "legal name" section of N-400.
Of course I put what's exactly on my GC into the appropriate section, with just the initial for middle name.
Now the tricky part. Once naturalized, I don't want to carry my full patronymic middle name with me -- just doesn't make sense. I would like to keep the initial though -- there're way too many instances where I'm known as XXX Y ZZZ and there're quite a few computer systems that require a middle initial. Hence the question: can I request a single-character "full" middle name in the appropriate section of N-400? I know they state "no initials", but is a single-letter name acceptable?
Any comments will be appreciated...
I have a fairly confusing situation with regards to my middle name. Being from the former USSR, I do not have a middle name per se, but rather have a patronymic name which, from the USCIS perspective, is interpreted as a middle name.
Here's what I have on various documents:
- Russian passport: first name, patronymic name, last name in russian, only first and last name in english.
- SS card: first name, middle [derived from patronymic] name, last name, all fully spelled out
- GC: first name, middle initial, last name (yes, even at the bottom part where they have <<< characters, as well as at the top part)
- I-485 application: as on SS card (fully spelled out).
So I do assume that USCIS has my full middle/patronymic name on record somewhere and perhaps it was considered too long to fit even at the bottom part of GC.
Based on that assumption I plan to put my fully spelled out name in the "legal name" section of N-400.
Of course I put what's exactly on my GC into the appropriate section, with just the initial for middle name.
Now the tricky part. Once naturalized, I don't want to carry my full patronymic middle name with me -- just doesn't make sense. I would like to keep the initial though -- there're way too many instances where I'm known as XXX Y ZZZ and there're quite a few computer systems that require a middle initial. Hence the question: can I request a single-character "full" middle name in the appropriate section of N-400? I know they state "no initials", but is a single-letter name acceptable?
Any comments will be appreciated...