Birth Certificate Question

[rs1971 0]

Hi,

I'm in the process of preparing an I-129F petition and I have a quick question. For reasons which have never been entirely clear, the last name on my birth certificate is my mother's maiden name and not my fathers name. I never used that name though, even for a day. When I was 15 or 16 (25 years ago) and needed a social security card, my mother finally got around to having the name legally changed to my father's name (this was the first I even knew of the birth certificate issue). Rather than dealing with getting copies of both the court order and the long form birth certificate, I plan on just side-stepping the whole thing by using a copy of my passport instead. On both the G325A and the I-129F I answered 'none' to the other names used question, which is truthful as I never have used the name on my birth certificate. Does anyone think that I might run into any problems here? I don't see how I could, but this is the government that we are talking about here.

Thanks in advance.

-rs1971

Edited March 31, 2010 by rs1971