When to change name to married name during before or after green card application?

[bdav65 0]

Hi,

I am an F-1 student with a social security card in my maiden name. I recently got married and want to start the green card process. I would like to know if I should change all my documents (including social security number) before I submit my I-485 application or after? If I change it after, then perhaps immigration will have an easier time with my documents (since they'll all have my maiden name), if I change it before I will get 3 different socials (current one, one with married name and F-1 status, and one with green card status and married name). Is one route better than the next? Or can I just get one with my married name and adjusted status at the same time?

Any advice would be wonderful.

Thanks in advance,

bdav65

[Inky 1,111]

If your going to use your married name then you apply for your AOS in your married name.

Your green card arrives in your married name, then you go to the SSN office and have them change and update your SSN to married name and GC holder status.

[VanessaTony 3,567]

Do it whenever you want to do it. The key is if you WANT your married name you write that on the AOS forms. I only changed my bank card before I filed AOS, the rest I did afterward and my married name was on the forms (and thus on my GC).

Your won't have "3 different socials". You will have the same social number the entire time. You change it to married name it charges the card name, but not number. Then you remove conditions again, new card but same number.