The only sort-of complication in my case is my name and I want to know what do you think or what suggestions you may have. The short background story: My dear parentals decided to name me after my mommy and give me all of her lovely three names. So my legal name, as is on my birth certificate and my passport, consists of FIVE names.

Now on to the complication,

My first name is misspelled in some important records I definitely want to include in my package. Personally, I don't think it would be that big of a deal given that is just one extra letter. (Most commonly the name is spelled with a "th", my name has no H.) Big deal or not?

Now the really complicated part and the one I don't know what to do with is the records that I have with the name I go by instead of my first name. (i.e. award certificates, receipts). The name I have gone by my entire life is a shorten version of my third name. I will definitely include this on the Other names used part of the application. What I can't decide on what to do is if I should include the documents where that other name is used or just avoid them and keep things simple. A lawyer suggested to include an affidavit explaining the name as my identity. Lawyer did not mention anything about yay or nay on including the records

I feel so cheesy on including this but it's just like in Gilmore Girls. They're both named Lorelai but daughter is Rory and there's always confusion with the names.

This is just something I can't make up my mind about. There's just such insistence on ALWAYS writing your name exactly the same way every single time on all your documents. I mean, it would be breezy if my name was X Y but it's X A B Y Z. And I don't think it's ever spelled the same. Like sometimes is X A(dot) Y. Sometimes, X A Y Z. Sometimes X (spelled wrong) Y. Sometimes, X B Y. And rarely C Y. I mean... see what I mean?

TL;DR

Legal name = X A B Y Z
Commonly used name = C Y
To affidavit or not to affidavit?