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Dave H   12

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Hi everyone, just a couple of questions I hope someone can help with.

I received my green card just last week and wanted to know if I can travel inside the U.S. without my passport, as my wife (U.S.C.) says that I will only need I.D. like a driving license as that's what she uses, as well as my green card.

I am not sure regarding this, I thought I would need my U.K. passport as well as my green card.

One problem with my passport is that I changed my surname, well actually hyphenated it and added my wife's name too so we are both hyphenated. I know I have to send off my passport to Washington to have my name changed on my passport so I just wanted to know is my wife right or not?

Thanks

Dave :)

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You just need to show identification if it's within the USA. The GC is a good proof of ID.

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I know I have to send off my passport to Washington to have my name changed on my passport so I just wanted to know is my wife right or not?

Thanks

Dave :)

Wife is right like the others said. However some online reservations ask what ID you will be using. I just made reservations last night on Continental. They have all our info saved so I wasn't paying great attention to detail. It did ask what form of id and the default was passport. There was a dropdown where ID#2 was driver's license. And there was a place to edit or add the ID you would provide. It says you must provide the ID you choose. Lucky I noticed it or I guess they would have been expecting my passport. This could be just a Continental procedure but wanted to give a heads up since I almost missed that technicality in my haste.

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Dave H   12

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Green card is the perfect Identification document and you need not have anything else if you possess an updated and a valid green card.

Thanks Jessica24.

Dave :)

Wife is right like the others said. However some online reservations ask what ID you will be using. I just made reservations last night on Continental. They have all our info saved so I wasn't paying great attention to detail. It did ask what form of id and the default was passport. There was a dropdown where ID#2 was driver's license. And there was a place to edit or add the ID you would provide. It says you must provide the ID you choose. Lucky I noticed it or I guess they would have been expecting my passport. This could be just a Continental procedure but wanted to give a heads up since I almost missed that technicality in my haste.

Thanks so much,

When I book any flights I will check for this.

Dave :)

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Hi there. Just wanted to endorse what the others have said. I use my drivers license as ID with no problem when flying domestically. This is important to me because my frequent flyer miles are in my married name with some airlines, and in my former name on others. I use my passport when flying with them since the names are different.

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Dave H   12

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Hi there. Just wanted to endorse what the others have said. I use my drivers license as ID with no problem when flying domestically. This is important to me because my frequent flyer miles are in my married name with some airlines, and in my former name on others. I use my passport when flying with them since the names are different.

Thanks for the reply, I will keep that in mind.

Dave :)

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Dave,

you use your driver's license within the U.S. as the accepted form of identification anywhere.

In cases where you may come in contact with ICE or CBP, you take your Green Card with you, just in case. Keep in safe!

Only in cases where you travel internationally, you'll take Green Card and passport with you. If your passport shows a different name than your Green Card, you need to book your flight in the name of your passport.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

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Dave H   12

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Dave,

you use your driver's license within the U.S. as the accepted form of identification anywhere.

In cases where you may come in contact with ICE or CBP, you take your Green Card with you, just in case. Keep in safe!

Only in cases where you travel internationally, you'll take Green Card and passport with you. If your passport shows a different name than your Green Card, you need to book your flight in the name of your passport.

Thanks for that, but if I don't get to change my passport in time with my new full name change, will I still be able to travel (with booking in my old name) and my green card in my new name, Or don't I need to use my green card with my passport.

Thanks

Dave :)

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Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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Thanks for that, but if I don't get to change my passport in time with my new full name change, will I still be able to travel (with booking in my old name) and my green card in my new name, Or don't I need to use my green card with my passport.

Thanks

Dave :)

What matters for air travel and the required passenger manifest is that the name on the ticket matches the name on the accepted form of government-issued I.D.

When you attempt to board a plane in London-Heathrow, your Green Card is irrelevant. What they want to see is your U-kay passport, so that name has to be on the ticket.

When you meet the immigration guys back in the U.S., they want to see your Green Card. At that point they don't care much whether or not you have changed the name in your passport.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

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What matters for air travel and the required passenger manifest is that the name on the ticket matches the name on the accepted form of government-issued I.D.

When you attempt to board a plane in London-Heathrow, your Green Card is irrelevant. What they want to see is your U-kay passport, so that name has to be on the ticket.

When you meet the immigration guys back in the U.S., they want to see your Green Card. At that point they don't care much whether or not you have changed the name in your passport.

Oh, so I can travel on my old passport name to Europe (with flight tickets with my old name) and when I travel back to U.S I show them my Green card. Is this right :)

Thanks

Dave.

 
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