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My friend, an Israeli national, is filing I-485, the Adjustment of Status. His family moved to Israel from the former Soviet Union when he was a little child, and he started using a similarly sounding typically Israeli name ("Igal", as opposed to "Igor" in his birth certificate). There is no documentation about the change of the name -- all his Israeli documents list his new name from the very beginning. So bottom line, the first name in his birth certificate is different as compared to all his other documents (passport, marriage certificate, high school and college diplomas, etc). There are no other discrepancies in his documents, i.e. the date of birth and names of parents match, etc.
- Do you think it's better to just ignore this issue altogether, hope that USCIS doesn't care and deal with it if he gets an RFE? (Since it's obviously the same person -- very similar name, same DoB to the same parents, etc).
- If the answer is no, what kind of explanation USCIS expects here? If he needs to provide secondary evidence, what exactly does he need to show? A late usage of the old name or an early usage of the new one?
- Do you think it's better to just ignore this issue altogether, hope that USCIS doesn't care and deal with it if he gets an RFE? (Since it's obviously the same person -- very similar name, same DoB to the same parents, etc).
- If the answer is no, what kind of explanation USCIS expects here? If he needs to provide secondary evidence, what exactly does he need to show? A late usage of the old name or an early usage of the new one?
