<p>I am a chinese with a christian name, and the format of my name is lim xxx xxx, aaaa (aaaa being my christian name). but since high school i have been using aaaa as my first name and lim as the last for my SATS and school applications. my I20 reflects only aaaa and lim as my first and last name respectively.</p>
<p>Will this affect my visa application since my full name on my passport is longer?</p>
<p>yes it will.</p>
<p>Your full name on your passport must be the same as that which appears on your I-20.</p>
<p>You should have entered your name exactly as it appears on your passport. It is really your own responsibility, but the college too should have check to see that the name they entered matches the name on the passport.</p>
<p>I was in a similar situation. In my college application, I wrote my first and last names and excluded my middle name. Then, the college contacted me and said that the name does not match the name on my passport and asked me to change it.</p>
<p>Contact your college and ask for a new I20 to be issued. US visa procedure can be very bureaucratic, it's best not to have any discrepancies in your documents.</p>
<p>To make sure they dont make another mistake.. just send in a copy of your passport.. my college required it, to double check my legal name and birth date..</p>
<p>no it won't affect anything. exact same problem, collected my visa today.</p>
<p>Will it matter if the name in the passport is AAAA but I used Aaaa in my test and school information? For some reason, my name was all capitalized. So I just capitalized my first letter of my name.</p>
<p>bump...anyone?</p>
<p>dude, all details are capitalised on a passport. mine anyway.</p>
<p>hey guys, finally i've chanced upon a thread about the same problem i'm having! only thing is my problem goes like this:</p>
<p>for my college apps, i used "christian name" "chinese name" and "family name" as first, middle and last names, in that order. on my passport, it goes like "family name" "chinese name" "christian name". I'm from an asian coutnry, so there's no exact rule that specifies which is your official first, middle, last names etc - and it didn't occur to me that it might affect my visa. would i have problems getting my visa?</p>
<p>if i DO have problems with the visa, would my college agree to issue me an I-20 bearing my passport name, even though my passport name is different than the one I used for my college apps? both my passport and college app names have the 3 same words, just in different orders. would i be kicked out of the college or have my offer rescinded just because of these naming discrepancies?</p>
<p>How about a name which appears as A (last name) B C (first name) on my passport, but B C (first name) A (last name) on all my college stuffs?.. What should I do?</p>
<p>lol, YOU i think that is really completely okay. the contents of your first and last names in both ur college apps and passport match exactly, unlike mine.</p>
<p>can anyone help me with my situation in post#10?</p>
<p>I very much doubt that you will be rescinded. Send your college's I20 issuing office a full clarification and they'll send you whichever pattern of words in the I20 they feel will be most appropriate for the visa.</p>
<p>The name that you have on your passport should be the same on your I20. If not, you might get into trouble once you arrive in the immigration. Your I20 is xxxxxxtremely important, ask your school how they can help you fix it as soon as possible before you go get your visa.</p>
<p>Antilles, are you from Singapore or Malaysia or something, since you're from SEA? </p>
<p>and lol the thing is my country has no definite ordering of names into first/middle/last, unlike Western countries. what I have is an English Christian name, a Chinese name, and a surname - I put my English name as first name since I'm going America. since there's no official definition of names and name orders, nobody can really call that wrong... just need to follow what the American embassy and immigration wants.</p>
<p>It matters what the name on the I-20 is because the immigration is VERY strict about it.</p>
<p>If your name is Lee Mei Xin Anna, your family name is "Lee" and the given name is "Mei Xin, Anna".</p>
<p>Hope this helped.</p>
<p>fiona, you sound very sure of that - you must have had some experience before. could you tell me about it? hmmm, i just hope my college is flexible enough to issue me with an I-20 bearing a name that's different from my college application name.</p>
<p>If you have doubt about Fiona's point what don't you just contact your school and talk to them to see if there is a way to correct the mistake? You know what? Just email the embassy and the Homeland security to ask them if it is a problem. They will reply to you. If you use outlook, when you send the email, request a receip confirmation and send it with high importance.</p>