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Originally Posted by not_today
Your job as a DACA applicant is to make sure that your name appears on your EAD the way you want it so that the SSA can use exactly that name. You are not a US citizen, you can't go by the name on your foreign birth certificate since in the US, USCIS establishes your legal identity in this country.
When in the US, use your name exactly as it appears on your immigration document. This will help you avoid any potential problems in the future, and when your name changes again, for instance, through marriage, a legal name change, or naturalization, then you should use that name once you've updated the change with USCIS.
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When I helped out at DACA events, I think the lawyers volunteering with us also said something along these lines. Because in the US the common usage is just one first name and one last name, they told us it was ok to fill out the forms this way IF the person wanted to omit a second first name and second last name.
The important thing is to be consistent on all applications. And they also told us to use the 'Other Names Used' field to list the full name. So you want the name on all the applications and the EAD card to be how you want it to appear on everything else (DL, SSN, banks, etc).
Also there's a difference between abbreviating your name, and changing it (which you can't do as easily)