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I have a question about a name formatting issue on my wife’s immigration forms.

My wife is from Bangladesh. In her Bangladeshi passport, her name appears as:

Surname (Family Name): PEW
Given Name: ANAMIKA BASAK

So her full legal name is Anamika Basak Pew.

However, “Pew” was originally intended to be just a nickname, but it ended up being included in her official documents by mistake. As a result, all of her academic certificates (high school through university) show her name as Anamika Basak Pew.

When I filed the I-130, I entered her name as:

  • First Name: Anamika

  • Last Name: Basak Pew

  • Middle Name: (blank)

My intention at the time was to treat "Basak" as her surname and keep the full name consistent with her academic records. I was also thinking that once she immigrated to the U.S., we might simplify her name on future documents.

Now I am preparing the I-864 and DS-260, and I realized that the I-130 name format does not exactly match the passport structure.

My questions are:

  1. Should I keep the same name format used in the I-130 for consistency?

  2. Or should I match the passport format exactly on the new forms (Last Name: Pew, First Name: Anamika, Middle Name: Basak or First Name: Anamika Basak)?

  3. Is this type of difference likely to cause an RFE or delay?

Any advice from people who have dealt with similar South Asian naming issues would be greatly appreciated.

 
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