Last name change of petitioner after 1-130

[rnottr 0]

Hello All,

I am a US citizen and I have filed an I-130 petition for sponsoring my mother for her GC. My mother is an Indian citizen and we filed the I-130 on Aug 2012 at the Vermont Service Center. The petition is still pending.

Also, I have been contemplating a change to my last name (I am a guy and the name change is not triggered by marriage). I would like to do this as soon as possible.

My questions for the group are as follows --

1. Is it advisable for the petitioner to change his last name after filing the I-130?

2. Has anyone done this? If so, is there a process that you followed?

3. Is there a form that one fills out for name change of the petitioner?

Many thanks in advance.

[ndu26 114]

considering the delay it might trigger, can the name change wait after the I-130 process for your parent? I mean in the U.S.A I am sure you can change your name with due process of the court but right now you are in the middle of an imprtant immigration process

[ChefCC 0]

  On 12/21/2012 at 4:29 PM, rnottr said:

Hello All,

I am a US citizen and I have filed an I-130 petition for sponsoring my mother for her GC. My mother is an Indian citizen and we filed the I-130 on Aug 2012 at the Vermont Service Center. The petition is still pending.

Also, I have been contemplating a change to my last name (I am a guy and the name change is not triggered by marriage). I would like to do this as soon as possible.

My questions for the group are as follows --

1. Is it advisable for the petitioner to change his last name after filing the I-130?

2. Has anyone done this? If so, is there a process that you followed?

3. Is there a form that one fills out for name change of the petitioner?

Many thanks in advance.

Lets see, if you are thinking to change your name you could do it in the Social Security Office, but them you have to change your passport, ID, and your citizen certificate, so I recommend you to keep it that way until your mom comes here.

Since you put the I10 already, to probe that you are a US citizen all your documents are with the last name you have right now, then later you will have to submit probe of your last name change that only will delay the process.

When you send the documents to probe the relationship with your mother you sent your birth certificate, and when you submit her documents they have to be the same. If she changes her name again she will have to submit more documents, see what I mean?

When I became a US citizen I changed my last name, but still I had to probe the relationship with my mother and submit my old passport (from my country) with my old last name, and the document saying that I did when I became a citizen.

Wait until she is here and gets here green card. You don't want to make this process long

Good Luck!