Help Please.

[deepakvraghavan]

Hi Everyone,

I am having a tricky situation at hand. I have my first and last names combined as one name in Indian passport. I have the first and last names as two different names in all legal documents. My first name is Deepak and last name is Vijay Raghavan, and it is combined as Vijay Raghavan Deepak in my passport. I am planning on going for visa stamping soon. If I carry all the supporting documents, will this be a problem?

Please advise as I am worried about this.

Best Regards,

[darko]

I don't know how to answer your question, but I just would like to share what happened to me.

My first and last name were spelled differently in my new passport "o" instead of "ou" and "s" instead of "ss". So technically my name was different on my passport than on my old visa (which was in my old passport).

I was worried and carried proof with me of why it was changed (coz of new translation techniques). INS officer at the border didn't say anything about why it was different.

[deepakvraghavan]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. If I take SSN card, state ID, License, educational certificates from university in USA, current employment letter, bank statement, and all my educational certificates from India, is this enough proof?

Or do i need anything else?

Please reply. Thanks a bunch in advance.

[darko]

Honestly, I don't know. You should wait for one of the moderators' reply.
It's just that I had similar experience and found that INS officers tend to be more easy going when they know you are you

I had horrible thoughts in my head that they had my name as it is on visa in their database and that there is no way they would let someone through with technically different name But he didn't care!