Passport name vs I-130 name format mismatch – risk of RFE?

[Joyanta 0]

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): P
Given Name: A B

So her full legal name is A B P

However, “P” 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 A B P.

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

• First Name: A

• Last Name: B P

• Middle Name: (blank)

My intention at the time was to treat "B" 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.

Edited March 23 by Ryan H
Reason for edit: to remove full name

[milimelo 5,023]

Immigrant visa will match what's in her passport - so if you're not at the collecting stage yet of police certificate, court certificates, I'd make sure it matches passport.

[TBoneTX 49,517]

16 hours ago, milimelo said:

Immigrant visa will match what's in her passport - so if you're not at the collecting stage yet of police certificate, court certificates, I'd make sure it matches passport.

This, and utilize the "other names used" box on all USCIS and consular forms.  Attach a concise letter of explanation, saying what you've told us here.

[S2N 690]

Other piece of advice is that consular officers are reasonable people who live in or near the countries they’re assigned to process visas for. If it’s happened to to your wife, it’s probably happened to someone else, so they’ll recognize it.

[Ryan H 3,943]

**Moved from Progress Reports to Process & Procedures.  First post edited to remove full name for privacy purposes.**