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My wife will be coming to U.S. for the first time. Currently on her passport and U.S. Visa, her name appears as "Smitha Jose". Jose is her father. How can I change her name to "Smitha Tony". I'm Tony, her husband. She has an Indian passport and a U.S. Visa. Also, what should we do after her port of entry? She will be landing at Dulles, Washington D.C.

Thank you very much,

Tony

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My wife will be coming to U.S. for the first time. Currently on her passport and U.S. Visa, her name appears as "Smitha Jose". Jose is her father. How can I change her name to "Smitha Tony". I'm Tony, her husband. She has an Indian passport and a U.S. Visa. Also, what should we do after her port of entry? She will be landing at Dulles, Washington D.C.

Thank you very much,

Tony

Tony is your last name or first?

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Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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You cannot change another person's name.

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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If you guys are married, then when she comes here and applies for her SSN, SHE, not you, will be able to change her LAST name with your marriage certificate. However, that would allow her to take your last name, not your first.

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It will probably depend on what state/county you will reside in. Since it appears you were married out of the country the procedure may be different.

Here, in Houston County, Georgia. The name change is part of the marriage license process. The license allows the bride to choose the name she wants after marriage. The actual marriage certificate has her maiden name only. When we went to obtain her social security card, the agent wanted to see the marriage certificate to prove marriage, and the marriage license for the name to issue the card in. Additionally, my wife was able to change both her middle and last names on the license. Her social security, EAD, Military ID, drivers license, and Green Card all reflect the name(s) chosen on the marriage license.

You should probably run over to the local social security office and ask what they need. Here they basically told us, that if she had not elected to change her name on the marriage license, her social security card would have to be issued in her maiden name.

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In most states, a spouse can change his or her last name to the other spouse's last name with just a marriage certificate. Social Security will change it no problem and so will your bank. Government agencies may charge a fee to change the names on certain documents; driver's license, green card, etc.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2049711_change-surname-after-marriage.html

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