tax returns with unmarried name on it

[newlyweds 0]

Hi i am in the process of putting together my n400 application and

i just noticed that our first evern tax return that was done as married filing jointly,

shows my unmarried name, I forgot why that was, my husband filed it thru turbotax,

will that be an issue with my n400 application? I mean on the n400 form I put my married name as my legal name..

coz it's what I use now and my forms of identification for it are my mil ID and GC so I figured that would be my legal name already right?

thanks

[newlyweds 0]

and we're do i find it if it would reflect anything saying I am a resident of the US? coz when we applied for it, i didn't get my GC in the mail yet so i was afraid to have my husband say i am a resident already when i didn't have my GC in the mail yet.

[NickD 202]

and we're do i find it if it would reflect anything saying I am a resident of the US? coz when we applied for it, i didn't get my GC in the mail yet so i was afraid to have my husband say i am a resident already when i didn't have my GC in the mail yet.

I am envious again, only four months from the time you sent in your AOS to receiving your green card, was more like a year for us.

I am up in the air about if a woman really has to use her married name period, many of the women doctors around here stick with their maiden name because it would cost a fortune to get all of their certificates and licenses changed to their married name. Even use their maiden name on their passport, SS cards, and drivers' license.

Is there a law that says you have to use your married name? I really don't know. Even filing a joint return, can use any a different last name on the 1040. To change your maiden name to your married name, have to bring in your marriage certificate. Anyway, you have three more years to find out.

[v333k 59]

Did you change your name legally when you got married? If yes, then you may need to see what you should do to get it corrected (if you even have to). Else, there is no written law that the name needs to be changed upon marriage. In my opinion, I think showing married filing jointly and showing that both of you still "donate" to uncle Sam, then that covers 99.9% of their approval of your tax returns.

[newlyweds 0]

I am envious again, only four months from the time you sent in your AOS to receiving your green card, was more like a year for us.

I am up in the air about if a woman really has to use her married name period, many of the women doctors around here stick with their maiden name because it would cost a fortune to get all of their certificates and licenses changed to their married name. Even use their maiden name on their passport, SS cards, and drivers' license.

Is there a law that says you have to use your married name? I really don't know. Even filing a joint return, can use any a different last name on the 1040. To change your maiden name to your married name, have to bring in your marriage certificate. Anyway, you have three more years to find out.

lol thanks! i actually thought it took forever for AOS lol coz we got RFEs but after the CSC transfer it went on so smoothly lol

I am so happy I am finally able to get answers lol I am trying to process paperwork for the INA 319b so immigration wont be such a hassle anymore especially being stationed overseas. i wanna say goodbye to immigration and get my blue lol

anyway, our marriage certificate shows my name as maiden name still.. was too excited/anxious during wedding day that i forgot to bring it up with the pastor lol

i did read different threads here about the name change ordeal some had no issue, others did..so i'm not sure lol

[newlyweds 0]

Did you change your name legally when you got married? If yes, then you may need to see what you should do to get it corrected (if you even have to). Else, there is no written law that the name needs to be changed upon marriage. In my opinion, I think showing married filing jointly and showing that both of you still "donate" to uncle Sam, then that covers 99.9% of their approval of your tax returns.

after the wedding i started using my married name, and adopted the Philippine way of name change, drop the mother's maiden name(which is our middle names before marriage), and the father's last name takes its place and finally my last name is my husband's.

It is kind of a cultural thing but it's an automatic change and very much like a rule in philippines. I thought it was like that in the world lol i never heard about the names and all not until we got married. My husband said I can keep my maiden name but i want to just keep my new name now.. will that be a problem during interview and oath? i don't really wanna do the whole judiscial oath which could drag on for so long

[Mountain Climber 186]

Hi i am in the process of putting together my n400 application and

i just noticed that our first evern tax return that was done as married filing jointly,

shows my unmarried name, I forgot why that was, my husband filed it thru turbotax,

will that be an issue with my n400 application? I mean on the n400 form I put my married name as my legal name..

coz it's what I use now and my forms of identification for it are my mil ID and GC so I figured that would be my legal name already right?

thanks

If you just received your green card in Feb. of this year, how is it that you are able to apply for citizenship? I believe you will not be eligible until the end of 2012. Maybe I am missing something

Edited July 6, 2010 by Mountain Climber

[VanessaTony 3,567]

Hi i am in the process of putting together my n400 application and

i just noticed that our first evern tax return that was done as married filing jointly, shows my unmarried name, I forgot why that was, my husband filed it thru turbotax, Most likely the same reason my husband and I did, because my I-94 expired and I didn't want to risk going in and changing my name to my married name while "out-of-status". We filed married-jointly and had to use the same name as on my SSN or it wouldn't go through. Another girl had an issue because she tried using her married name when her SSN said maiden.. it didn't match

will that be an issue with my n400 application? I mean on the n400 form I put my married name as my legal name.. coz it's what I use now and my forms of identification for it are my mil ID and GC so I figured that would be my legal name already right? No it's not an issue. You may have just "decided later" to change your name. No-one says you have to do it right away

and we're do i find it if it would reflect anything saying I am a resident of the US? coz when we applied for it, i didn't get my GC in the mail yet so i was afraid to have my husband say i am a resident already when i didn't have my GC in the mail yet. There's a section on the tax form somewhere that says "resident, citizen, non-resident" etc

after the wedding i started using my married name, and adopted the Philippine way of name change, drop the mother's maiden name(which is our middle names before marriage), and the father's last name takes its place and finally my last name is my husband's. Hate to break it to you but you cannot do the Philippine style name change without it saying so SPECIFICALLY on your marriage certificate that you changed your middle name. Another girl is having issues because it's not a legal change. The marriage certificate ONLY changes last name unless, like in Iowa, it actually specifies name before and after marriage and if you write it there and then. So while you might want to call yourself "Name, Fathers surname, husbands surname" unless you have a marriage certificate like mine you legal name can ONLY be "Name, Mothers maiden name, husband name" and then the husbands name CAN be a variation such as hyphenated "fathers-husband" or " father husband" no hyphen.

It is kind of a cultural thing but it's an automatic change and very much like a rule in philippines. I thought it was like that in the world lol i never heard about the names and all not until we got married. My husband said I can keep my maiden name but i want to just keep my new name now.. will that be a problem during interview and oath? i don't really wanna do the whole judiscial oath which could drag on for so long

I agree with a previous poster. WHY are you applying for citizenship when you were only made a conditional LPR in Feb 2010?? You need to ROC first (I-751) before Feb 2012 but after Dec 2011, and you're only eligible for citizenship after 3 years of marriage (minus 90 days) which seeing you got married Oct 2009 is still July 2012. You have at LEAST 2 years to go still and a bunch of paperwork in the middle before Naturalisation.

[newlyweds 0]

If you just received your green card in Feb. of this year, how is it that you are able to apply for citizenship? I believe you will not be eligible until the end of 2012. Maybe I am missing something

I am trying to apply for the article 319b of the INA, it doesn't require the 3 yr because of my husband being stationed overseas

[newlyweds 0]

I agree with a previous poster. WHY are you applying for citizenship when you were only made a conditional LPR in Feb 2010?? You need to ROC first (I-751) before Feb 2012 but after Dec 2011, and you're only eligible for citizenship after 3 years of marriage (minus 90 days) which seeing you got married Oct 2009 is still July 2012. You have at LEAST 2 years to go still and a bunch of paperwork in the middle before Naturalisation.

thank you so much for all the answers. I read up on so many threads here regarding the name change, for some it wasn't questiond because they said maybe it had something to do with the IOs maybe used to the whole thing because there are so many filipinos and mexican in the area. I was so confused when I looked my Marriage certificate and it still said my maiden name on it, I know I don't want to undergo the whole judicial oath, so I guess I will have to see on the interview. I have been really stressing out on what I should do about that, and what I write on the legal name, so many people who had done the naturalization whom I've asked said it wasn't asn issue with them, so i guess it's more like dependent on the IO if he/she makes a fuss out of it... I wonder if the ones from fairfax, VA will.. I am gonna specify I want my interview to be done there when I apply because they are used to the military expedited naturalization.

I know i was supposed to do the ROC 1st, so i actually didn't care about the naturalization yet until someone told me to look into it because of my husband's overseas miltary orders. So I'm just praying everything goes through well with this so we will say good bye to immigration then lol

[NickD 202]

thank you so much for all the answers. I read up on so many threads here regarding the name change, for some it wasn't questiond because they said maybe it had something to do with the IOs maybe used to the whole thing because there are so many filipinos and mexican in the area. I was so confused when I looked my Marriage certificate and it still said my maiden name on it, I know I don't want to undergo the whole judicial oath, so I guess I will have to see on the interview. I have been really stressing out on what I should do about that, and what I write on the legal name, so many people who had done the naturalization whom I've asked said it wasn't asn issue with them, so i guess it's more like dependent on the IO if he/she makes a fuss out of it... I wonder if the ones from fairfax, VA will.. I am gonna specify I want my interview to be done there when I apply because they are used to the military expedited naturalization.

I know i was supposed to do the ROC 1st, so i actually didn't care about the naturalization yet until someone told me to look into it because of my husband's overseas miltary orders. So I'm just praying everything goes through well with this so we will say good bye to immigration then lol

Wife used that maiden-married format name throughout the entire USCIS process, that was the tradition in her country, but found its too confusing here for all of our computer records, even the phone book. Her maiden name put her under the "T's", married name under the "D's". She dropped her maiden on the N-400, wasn't even considered a name change by the USCIS, no problem with that, nor for her new SS card, nor with the IRS. After we did that, her name follows mine in the phone book.

What gets a bit messy is providing a paper trail for names. When she petitioned for her son that has her previous marriage name on his birth certificate and her application with her new married name on it, as proof that she is the mother, had to provide proof of her maiden name, her birth certificate, her first marriage certificate, her divorce, then our marriage certificate. The USCIS does have all this stuff, but you always have to send it in again.

[newlyweds 0]

Wife used that maiden-married format name throughout the entire USCIS process, that was the tradition in her country, but found its too confusing here for all of our computer records, even the phone book. Her maiden name put her under the "T's", married name under the "D's". She dropped her maiden on the N-400, wasn't even considered a name change by the USCIS, no problem with that, nor for her new SS card, nor with the IRS. After we did that, her name follows mine in the phone book.

What gets a bit messy is providing a paper trail for names. When she petitioned for her son that has her previous marriage name on his birth certificate and her application with her new married name on it, as proof that she is the mother, had to provide proof of her maiden name, her birth certificate, her first marriage certificate, her divorce, then our marriage certificate. The USCIS does have all this stuff, but you always have to send it in again.

oh wow, i guess when it comes down to it, i'll drop my maiden name then lol don't want to deal with so much changing middle names, i can drop my middle name though right? it's weird to carry my mom's maiden name as my middle name lol i wonder if when i would apply for dual citizenship in philippines they would make my maiden name my middle name.. oh well

[NickD 202]

oh wow, i guess when it comes down to it, i'll drop my maiden name then lol don't want to deal with so much changing middle names, i can drop my middle name though right? it's weird to carry my mom's maiden name as my middle name lol i wonder if when i would apply for dual citizenship in philippines they would make my maiden name my middle name.. oh well

Feel this board needs yet another topic heading, NATURALIZED CITIZENS WITH USA/FOREIGN PASSPORT ISSUES.

[v333k 59]

Feel this board needs yet another topic heading, NATURALIZED CITIZENS WITH USA/FOREIGN PASSPORT ISSUES.

are you going to start this topic????