April 3, 2002

INS Recommends Including Full Middle Name on all Paperwork

We have been advised that effective immediately, all applications and petitions at all Service Centers and at all District offices are being screened for name checks through name databases. As a result, individual petitioners, applicants and beneficiaries listed on applications and petitions submitted to INS need to list the full middle name, not just the middle initial. Failure to list the full name may result in a significant additional processing delay and an RFE requesting the missing info so that the name check can be run. We will contact our clients in situations where we do not have full middle names, but please note that this applies to individual listings on ALL petitions and applications.

Information Courtesy of American Immigration Lawyers Association