Full Middle name Missing on Green Card

[gmf3000 9]

My wife received her physical green card. Her middle name is cut off by 2 letters. Should i File an I-90, or is it because the first and middle name are too long to fit? It is hard to reach someone live at the uscis number.

[pushbrk 13,716]

2 minutes ago, gmf3000 said:

My wife received her physical green card. Her middle name is cut off by 2 letters. Should i File an I-90, or is it because the first and middle name are too long to fit? It is hard to reach someone live at the uscis number.

Most likely, too long to fit.  The limit is 30 total characters which would include spaces.

[gmf3000 9]

9 minutes ago, pushbrk said:

Most likely, too long to fit.  The limit is 30 total characters which would include spaces.

For just given name? Or including surname?

[pushbrk 13,716]

19 minutes ago, gmf3000 said:

For just given name? Or including surname?

Full name.  I said "total characters".

[NorthByNorthwest 459]

37 minutes ago, gmf3000 said:

My wife received her physical green card. Her middle name is cut off by 2 letters. Should i File an I-90, or is it because the first and middle name are too long to fit? It is hard to reach someone live at the uscis number.

 

Is the full name listed in the machine-readable zone on the back of the card? If it is, no need to change since that's the part that matters.

[gmf3000 9]

2 minutes ago, NorthByNorthwest said:

 

Is the full name listed in the machine-readable zone on the back of the card? If it is, no need to change since that's the part that matters.

The back shows the same as the front. The 2 letters missing from the middle name.

[NorthByNorthwest 459]

1 minute ago, gmf3000 said:

The back shows the same as the front. The 2 letters missing from the middle name.

 

OK, likely exceeding the length then as @pushbrk already mentioned. Looking at the MRZ it will be obvious if there is no more space. Standard passports allow up 39 characters, so she would not have run into the problem before.

[Ryan H 3,923]

Moved from IR-1/CR-1 Process & Procedures to General Immigration-Related Discussion.

[From_CAN_2_US 1,130]

 

22 hours ago, pushbrk said:

Most likely, too long to fit.  The limit is 30 total characters which would include spaces.

Wait, they normally put the whole middle name on the card? They only put an initial for me for my middle name. The total characters is just over 18 (20 with spaces). The reverse of the card does spell out the whole middle name.

 

Is this a problem at all?

Edited Friday at 10:17 PM by From_CAN_2_US

[Scandi 4,313]

33 minutes ago, From_CAN_2_US said:

 

Wait, they normally put the whole middle name on the card? They only put an initial for me for my middle name. The total characters is just over 18 (20 with spaces). The reverse of the card does spell out the whole middle name.

 

Is this a problem at all?

No, not an issue. My greencards also only had First name, middle initial and last name on the front. On the back they had first name, surname, one full middle name and only half of my second middle name. Never an issue. 

In Sweden it's normal to have two middle names (often counted as first names, so I guess technically you have three first names and one last name), and the US isn't made for that many characters, lol. So every US document I had (from SSA, DMV etc), my second middle name was always only half, instead of "Therese" it was "The". 😆

So the first thing I did when filling out my N-400 form was to remove one of my middle names in the "do you want to change your name" field, so I would only have one middle name. It has made things sooooo much easier!

[From_CAN_2_US 1,130]

10 minutes ago, Scandi said:

No, not an issue. My greencards also only had First name, middle initial and last name on the front. On the back they had first name, surname, one full middle name and only half of my second middle name. Never an issue. 

In Sweden it's normal to have two middle names (often counted as first names, so I guess technically you have three first names and one last name), and the US isn't made for that many characters, lol. So every US document I had (from SSA, DMV etc), my second middle name was always only half, instead of "Therese" it was "The". 😆

So the first thing I did when filling out my N-400 form was to remove one of my middle names in the "do you want to change your name" field, so I would only have one middle name. It has made things sooooo much easier!

Thanks for that confirmation. So interesting about the naming conventions in Sweden.

[pushbrk 13,716]

2 hours ago, From_CAN_2_US said:

 

Wait, they normally put the whole middle name on the card? They only put an initial for me for my middle name. The total characters is just over 18 (20 with spaces). The reverse of the card does spell out the whole middle name.

 

Is this a problem at all?

No