Can my wife change her first name (not maiden name)?

[alfredeneumann 0]

I have just married my wife in the U.S. She is from Taiwan and came in to the U.S. on a K-1 visa. Our marriage certificate lists her Chinese name. But, as with many Chinese people she has an English nickname. She would now like to use that English nickname in the U.S. as her official first name (and have her Chinese name as serve as her middle name).

Now, we are applying for adjustment of status (AOS) and I would like to know when in this process we can apply for this name change, if at all possible.

I have posted this as a separate topic because all other name change questions I have seen on this board all involve change of last name from maiden to married name. We do not have this problem because we both have the same last name.

Anyone have an experience or advice regarding this?

[sjoefl01 1]

Lucero dropped her first name when she filed the AOS papers and we had no problems.

The beginning of this process is the filing of the AOS papers. USCIS is more or less the standard for your identification.

We weren't really sure what would happen when we sent the papers but we did it anyway. I figured that the worst that would happen would be an RFE for some new forms but there was no problem.

[alfredeneumann 0]

Lucero dropped her first name when she filed the AOS papers and we had no problems.

The beginning of this process is the filing of the AOS papers. USCIS is more or less the standard for your identification.

We weren't really sure what would happen when we sent the papers but we did it anyway. I figured that the worst that would happen would be an RFE for some new forms but there was no problem.

Thanks for the response. But, I would like to know. When Lucero dropped her first name, was her "new" name shown on the marriage certificate? I ask this because, at the time we got married, the officiant (minister) asked us, "well, what do you want to call yourselves after marriage?" as he helped us fill out the marriage license. At the time, my wife did not have this idea to change her name, so we just put her official name on the marriage license. So, that is what I want to make sure of - that is, when I apply for AOS for my wife, if I try to write a "new" name for my wife - will the gov't. allow this even though we have no documents of any sort from the past that show her desired "new" name? Thanks.