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The following diagnostic is generating:

Taxpayer's name is being truncated in the e-file. The IRS may delay the posting of the taxpayer's return and, if applicable, any refund. Shorten the taxpayer's or spouse's name using the following priority: a. Omit titles such as M. D. or Ph. D. which are not part of the taxpayer's given name. b. Input middle initial instead of keying the entire middle name. c. Omit the spouse's middle initial. d. Omit the taxpayer's middle initial. e. Substitute initial for spouse's given name. f. Substitute initial for taxpayer's given name.

Solution:

This often comes up if the spouses have different last names. The only way to resolve it is to remove characters from the name fields until it goes away.

Start with suffixes like Jr, SR, etc. Then middle initials. After that, you can delete what you need to, but don't remove the first four of either last name or it will likely reject for Name Control issues.
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The same thing is happening to us and it is a problem for us, we cannot abbreviate the name of the taxpayers anymore

@Car10126 Why can't you?

Give the client a copy with their full name. Truncate as needed to get it to efile.

Same Thing, When I short client's Name, it said the name does not match IRS Data base. This diagnostic used to be informational, now they move it to Critical and it prevent Efiling which seems so unnecessary. 

We are experiencing the same thing. Cannot make clients name shorter because it doesn't match the IRS database.