Small concern over being denaturalized

[robhostein 57]

So this Denaturalization Task Force I've been hearing about has me just a bit concerned.

 

I became a citizen back in April, this year. At the time of my interview, the subject of my name was a bit of an issue because my legal name didn't match my IDs. That's because back in 2010, I got a court order approved to change my birth name. But I didn't change it on my IDs, I left them unchanged and continued to use my birth name. Even in 2015 when I decided to renew my green card (which was already expired for over a year), I still kept it in my birth name as I sent in the renewal application. 6 months later, new green card arrived in my birth name.

 

Now, fast forward to last year, when I was putting together my N400 application. I knew the name thing would be serious. Like, right, this is the N400. The big one. The application to become a naturalized citizen. There's absolutely no mucking about here. So using all the little bits of common sense that I had, I figured, the part where it asks what my current legal name was, I had to put down the name that I chose on that court order from 2010. And so I did. Where it asks of any other names I used in the past, I put down my birth name. Current name on green card, my birth name. And of course, I attached a copy of the court order.

 

But hold on, not only was my legal name from 2010 not on my renewed green card from 2015, but I also put down on the N400 application that I wanted to change the spelling of my currently legal name by a couple letters. Not the whole thing, just a couple letters.

 

Now you would think that all of this would be a little suspicious to an immigration officer. And you'd be right, it was, because at the interview, I was asked a ton of questions about my name, and what my intentions were with changing my name. A lot of questions. In fact, most, if not all of the interview, was focused on my name. I thought for sure, my application was going to be denied right then and there.

 

But for some reason, the interviewing officer gave me an approval at the end of the interview. I was stunned, but happy, nonetheless. Couple months later, oath ceremony.

 

So you've read my story. Do you think I have anything to fear from this Denaturalization Task Force?

[Cyberfx1024 7,978]

31 minutes ago, robhostein said:

So this Denaturalization Task Force I've been hearing about has me just a bit concerned.

 

I became a citizen back in April, this year. At the time of my interview, the subject of my name was a bit of an issue because my legal name didn't match my IDs. That's because back in 2010, I got a court order approved to change my birth name. But I didn't change it on my IDs, I left them unchanged and continued to use my birth name. Even in 2015 when I decided to renew my green card (which was already expired for over a year), I still kept it in my birth name as I sent in the renewal application. 6 months later, new green card arrived in my birth name.

 

Now, fast forward to last year, when I was putting together my N400 application. I knew the name thing would be serious. Like, right, this is the N400. The big one. The application to become a naturalized citizen. There's absolutely no mucking about here. So using all the little bits of common sense that I had, I figured, the part where it asks what my current legal name was, I had to put down the name that I chose on that court order from 2010. And so I did. Where it asks of any other names I used in the past, I put down my birth name. Current name on green card, my birth name. And of course, I attached a copy of the court order.

 

But hold on, not only was my legal name from 2010 not on my renewed green card from 2015, but I also put down on the N400 application that I wanted to change the spelling of my currently legal name by a couple letters. Not the whole thing, just a couple letters.

 

Now you would think that all of this would be a little suspicious to an immigration officer. And you'd be right, it was, because at the interview, I was asked a ton of questions about my name, and what my intentions were with changing my name. A lot of questions. In fact, most, if not all of the interview, was focused on my name. I thought for sure, my application was going to be denied right then and there.

 

But for some reason, the interviewing officer gave me an approval at the end of the interview. I was stunned, but happy, nonetheless. Couple months later, oath ceremony.

 

So you've read my story. Do you think I have anything to fear from this Denaturalization Task Force?

I have never heard of this denaturalization task force. 

[coloradoman 32]

41 minutes ago, robhostein said:

So this Denaturalization Task Force I've been hearing about has me just a bit concerned.

 

I became a citizen back in April, this year. At the time of my interview, the subject of my name was a bit of an issue because my legal name didn't match my IDs. That's because back in 2010, I got a court order approved to change my birth name. But I didn't change it on my IDs, I left them unchanged and continued to use my birth name. Even in 2015 when I decided to renew my green card (which was already expired for over a year), I still kept it in my birth name as I sent in the renewal application. 6 months later, new green card arrived in my birth name.

 

Now, fast forward to last year, when I was putting together my N400 application. I knew the name thing would be serious. Like, right, this is the N400. The big one. The application to become a naturalized citizen. There's absolutely no mucking about here. So using all the little bits of common sense that I had, I figured, the part where it asks what my current legal name was, I had to put down the name that I chose on that court order from 2010. And so I did. Where it asks of any other names I used in the past, I put down my birth name. Current name on green card, my birth name. And of course, I attached a copy of the court order.

 

But hold on, not only was my legal name from 2010 not on my renewed green card from 2015, but I also put down on the N400 application that I wanted to change the spelling of my currently legal name by a couple letters. Not the whole thing, just a couple letters.

 

Now you would think that all of this would be a little suspicious to an immigration officer. And you'd be right, it was, because at the interview, I was asked a ton of questions about my name, and what my intentions were with changing my name. A lot of questions. In fact, most, if not all of the interview, was focused on my name. I thought for sure, my application was going to be denied right then and there.

 

But for some reason, the interviewing officer gave me an approval at the end of the interview. I was stunned, but happy, nonetheless. Couple months later, oath ceremony.

 

So you've read my story. Do you think I have anything to fear from this Denaturalization Task Force?

No. You didn't misrepresent anything, at least not from what you're telling us. Unless you made false statements and lied to USCIS, there are no grounds for denaturalization.

[robhostein 57]

On 10/10/2019 at 12:25 PM, Cyberfx1024 said:

I have never heard of this denaturalization task force. 

 

On 10/10/2019 at 12:51 PM, Stevo1979 said:

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Well, from what I've read, the people from the Trump administration wanted to put a team together of around 300 USCIS immigration employees, and some investigators and paralegals. With a budget of, I think 200 something million dollars, their job would be going over past cases of naturalized citizens, all 20 million of them, find evidence of fraud and such, and bring those cases to immigration court.

Edited October 12, 2019 by TBoneTX

[robhostein 57]

35 minutes ago, coloradoman said:

No. You didn't misrepresent anything, at least not from what you're telling us. Unless you made false statements and lied to USCIS, there are no grounds for denaturalization.

Well, good. Cause every statement was as truthful as could be. I crossed all my T's and dotted all my I's.

[Cyberfx1024 7,978]

7 minutes ago, robhostein said:

Well, good. Cause every statement was as truthful as could be. I crossed all my T's and dotted all my I's.

Then you have nothing to worry about at all

[nyj215 103]

Relax.

[coloradoman 32]

The new “task force” is looking into cases where immigrants that had deportation orders applied for GCs under a false identity and later naturalized. A legal name change is not even in the same ballpark, especially since you had it changed years AFTER becoming a resident

[Nitas_man 3,100]

17 hours ago, robhostein said:

So you've read my story. Do you think I have anything to fear from this Denaturalization Task Force?

I think the Denaturalization Task Force will have the same astounding success as Kushner’s Middle East Peace Plan

 

You would have to have had something like an order of deportation under your old name then changed your name and refiled / received benefits to get denaturalized.  A few hundred people per year get caught doing things like  that but I don’t think you are anywhere near falling into that category.

Edited October 11, 2019 by Nitas_man

[Stevo1979 71]

4 hours ago, Nitas_man said:

I think the Denaturalization Task Force will have the same astounding success as Kushner’s Middle East Peace Plan

 

You would have to have had something like an order of deportation under your old name then changed your name and refiled / received benefits to get denaturalized.  A few hundred people per year get caught doing things like  that but I don’t think you are anywhere near falling into that category.

Lol @ astounding 

[TBoneTX 43,058]

Five noncontributory posts and a quote of one have been removed.  Answer the OP's question nonjudgmentally.

Edited October 12, 2019 by TBoneTX