Name change during conditional residency, a safe move?

[jenny_roser 0]

My husband has two last names because he is Peruvian and they are Vasquez Lurquin. When we got married I changed my last name to Vasquez and found out soon that we couldn't find a place to rent under my new last name. Potential landlords would pull up all the Rebel Vasquezs out of there background check name database with bad reputations, and assume it was me. So I went to social security and had them change my last name to Roser-Vasquez. Roser was my maiden name and I never had problems with that name. Well, now we want to change our last name to just Lurquin my husbands second last name. I don't like have so two last names or either does my husband, so why not take just one of his last names. The problem is that Lurquin is his maternal last name and not his paternal last name so we would have to get a court order I imagine. I know it costs 340 bucks for a name change on a GC but we willing to do that if that does not affect his case as a conditional resident. His conditional residency does not expire until june 2010. Do you guys think we could change it now, without the name changes affecting our case in a negative way?

Edited December 9, 2008 by jenny_roser

[cherr1980 1]

A name change has nothing to do with a GC status even especially that his name remains the same. I think you are complicated too much. I wonder which database those landlords are using or the one you went because your name should match your SSN. There are thousands of people with the same name. Lurquin is not even consider since the US only take in account the last name (first). I don't know how you could hyphenated with the SSA without a court order for that...in any case, make all your stuff in one name for your own financial/life issues and that should be for you not for USCIS. Again, if you want to keep your maiden name or no, has nothing or has no effect in your husband's GC status at all.

Good luck.

My husband has two last names because he is Peruvian and they are Vasquez Lurquin. When we got married I changed my last name to Vasquez and found out soon that we couldn't find a place to rent under my new last name. Potential landlords would pull up all the Rebel Vasquezs out of there background check name database with bad reputations, and assume it was me. So I went to social security and had them change my last name to Roser-Vasquez. Roser was my maiden name and I never had problems with that name. Well, now we want to change our last name to just Lurquin my husbands second last name. I don't like have so two last names or either does my husband, so why not take just one of his last names. The problem is that Lurquin is his maternal last name and not his paternal last name so we would have to get a court order I imagine. I know it costs 340 bucks for a name change on a GC but we willing to do that if that does not affect his case as a conditional resident. His conditional residency does not expire until june 2010. Do you guys think we could change it now, without the name changes affecting our case in a negative way?