AOS Married or Maiden Signatures???

[mike42979 57]

Should my wife sign her AOS forms with her maiden name or married name as all the documents have her married name on them?

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Does she want to change her name or not? If all her docs have a new name on them, then I assume she wants to change her name. She should sign documents in her current name.

Edited February 6, 2012 by Harpa Timsah

[Vince and Cheryl 1]

ItS her choice Congrats

Edited February 6, 2012 by Vince and Cheryl

[Travis and Meghan 24]

If she wants her married name on the green card then she needs to use her married name for all of the paperwork. If she wants to keep her maiden name then she needs to use her maiden name on all of the forms.

[Moomin 292]

Yes, married name when the AOS and all other papers are in the married name. I signed everything in married name from the day after changing it with SSA, and all papers to USCIS(and when having called them) are in married name.

[kcoyclay1 98]

Should my wife sign her AOS forms with her maiden name or married name as all the documents have her married name on them?

Use the name she decided to use on her marriage certificate. Based on what you have written, I am assuming that it is her married name. All the best.

[Lainie B 465]

The marriage certificate is her legal proof of name change, if she ha decided to use your name as her married name(and signed her married name), then that is the name she should use from now on, including AOS. There is one space in the forms where they ask for "name as it appears on the I-94", that is where she will use her maiden name, the rest is in her married name. Don't worry about USCIS being confused, they deal with it all the time.

[mike42979 57]

The marriage certificate is her legal proof of name change, if she ha decided to use your name as her married name(and signed her married name), then that is the name she should use from now on, including AOS. There is one space in the forms where they ask for "name as it appears on the I-94", that is where she will use her maiden name, the rest is in her married name. Don't worry about USCIS being confused, they deal with it all the time.

The marriage cert in Florida is in her maiden name and we were told if she wants to change her name she will have to do it for each institution individually ex.. SSA, Bank, Department of motor vehicles etc...

[Lainie B 465]

The marriage cert in Florida is in her maiden name and we were told if she wants to change her name she will have to do it for each institution individually ex.. SSA, Bank, Department of motor vehicles etc...

Ok so she didn't take your name on the marriage certificate? SSA, banks, etc etc, will require a document showing legal name change, such as a marriage license/certificate that has her old name and her new name, before they change her name on anything. There is no way to do it other than changing her name individually with each institution, but she must have the marriage certificate to do so. She won't be able to change her name without such proof. Who told you that she could change her name individually without a marriage certificate with her new name on it? That doesn't sound right.

From what I can understand here I believe the problem is that she never changed her name legally using the marriage certificate, so USCIS (and all other institutions) will not recognise her married name. She is still legally her old name.

Edited February 6, 2012 by Lainie B

[mike42979 57]

Ok so she didn't take your name on the marriage certificate? SSA, banks, etc etc, will require a document showing legal name change, such as a marriage license/certificate that has her old name and her new name, before they change her name on anything. There is no way to do it other than changing her name individually with each institution, but she must have the marriage certificate to do so. She won't be able to change her name without such proof. Who told you that she could change her name individually without a marriage certificate with her new name on it? That doesn't sound right.

From what I can understand here I believe the problem is that she never changed her name legally using the marriage certificate, so USCIS (and all other institutions) will not recognise her married name. She is still legally her old name.

You misunderstood, there is nowhere to put married name on the marriage application form in Florida and the gentleman at the court house said we would have to change everything at each institution after we were married. You are correct she hasnt changed her name with SSA because they said she needs her green card or EAD before they can do it. Oh well were filing everything for AOS with the married name well see what happens i guess.

[Lainie B 465]

OK, that must be a Florida thing, the marriage certificates I have seen have a place for the "old" name and one for the "new" name, but I would think that regardless the marriage certificate is still a proof of legal name change, which she will use when she changes her name on her bank accounts, etc. I'm curious, did she sign the marriage certificate in her maiden or married name?

Edited February 6, 2012 by Lainie B

[Travis and Meghan 24]

Arizona is the same, there was only space for my old name but all i have to do to change my name anywhere is show the marriage certificate. I had to sign it in my maiden name too. It's so confusing how things like this are different in every state, lol

[Lainie B 465]

Arizona is the same, there was only space for my old name but all i have to do to change my name anywhere is show the marriage certificate. I had to sign it in my maiden name too. It's so confusing how things like this are different in every state, lol

I guess I shouldn't have assumed all marriage certificates in different states are the same, OP sorry about creating confusion, as others have said she can use her married name if that is what she is going by.

[Travis and Meghan 24]

lol, i assumed all marriage certificates would have been the same too before i read this post

[Bule&Cantik 8]

Should my wife sign her AOS forms with her maiden name or married name as all the documents have her married name on them?

if they are all filed with married name. then why would she not just sign with married name?

Edited February 6, 2012 by Bule&Cantik