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cyntica   4

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Hi guys!!!

Do you know if I need to get a new passport with my name change or is it okey to travel outside the USA with my green having my married last name and my passport having my maiden last name? I thought I read something in here that you need to carry your marriage certificate? is that enough? or you think I need to get a new passport??? what's better??

Thanks you guys!!!!

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I-129F RFE(s) : 2012-08-17

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JensJrny2Ray   367

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I brought my marriage certificate, though they said it wasn't an issue. I would bring it just in case and you should have no issues. I kept my passport in my maiden name as I just had it renewed before I moved to the states.

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Name on your flight ticket should match name on your ticket.

Also keep copy of your marriage certificate as that would prove name on your GC is valid too, might need it when you re-enter.

Other than that you are good to go.

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Hi guys!!!

Do you know if I need to get a new passport with my name change or is it okey to travel outside the USA with my green having my married last name and my passport having my maiden last name? I thought I read something in here that you need to carry your marriage certificate? is that enough? or you think I need to get a new passport??? what's better??

Thanks you guys!!!!

Up to you as to how hard it is to get a new passport while in the US and the cost and all that. Carry your Marriage Certificate and make certain your ticket name matches the passport name.

Dave

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cyntica   4

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Thank you guys that makes sense.

I-129F Sent : 2012-01-30

I-129F NOA1 : 2012-02-09

I-129F RFE(s) : 2012-08-17

RFE Reply(s) : 2012-09-27

I-129F NOA2 : 2012-10-18

NVC Received : 2012-10-25

NVC Left : 2012-10-29

Consulate Received :

Packet 3 Received :

Packet 3 Sent :

Packet 4 Received : 2012-11-08

Interview Date : 2013-01-07

Interview Result :

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Hi. So we have the same dilemma.

My wife has booked a trip to Poland in 2 months without me.

Flight ticket (married name), Passport (maiden name), 10yr GC (married name).

It's too late to update her with a new Passport since the embassy seems very difficult to deal with and it's at least a 3 month process.

I assume leaving the US is not a terrible problem. But will coming back be a problem? Hopefully a marriage certificate will be a backup. What should she expect?

Thanks.

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Dave&Roza   748

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Hi. So we have the same dilemma.

My wife has booked a trip to Poland in 2 months without me.

Flight ticket (married name), Passport (maiden name), 10yr GC (married name).

It's too late to update her with a new Passport since the embassy seems very difficult to deal with and it's at least a 3 month process.

I assume leaving the US is not a terrible problem. But will coming back be a problem? Hopefully a marriage certificate will be a backup. What should she expect?

Thanks.

Actually getting out of the US maybe a problem as the government issued ID--Polish passport--does not match the name on her ticket. You could get a cranky TSA agent that will not let her past security, or a cranky airline employee that will not let her board the airplane or you may not have any problems at all. Her airline ticket should be in the name on the government issued ID used for travel. All the GC does is allow her to re-enter the US. The airlines check the GC very carefully. Typically people in your wife's situation book the ticket in the maiden name and use the marriage certificate to show that the GC name and the passport name refer to the same person for the return trip. She may not have any problems or she will have all kinds. I would change the name on the ticket to her maiden name, but that's me. YMMV.

Good luck,

Dave

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Actually getting out of the US maybe a problem as the government issued ID--Polish passport--does not match the name on her ticket. You could get a cranky TSA agent that will not let her past security, or a cranky airline employee that will not let her board the airplane or you may not have any problems at all. Her airline ticket should be in the name on the government issued ID used for travel. All the GC does is allow her to re-enter the US. The airlines check the GC very carefully. Typically people in your wife's situation book the ticket in the maiden name and use the marriage certificate to show that the GC name and the passport name refer to the same person for the return trip. She may not have any problems or she will have all kinds. I would change the name on the ticket to her maiden name, but that's me. YMMV.

Good luck,

Dave

I agree i think ticket name should always be the same as traveling document which in this case is Passport. Green card is "only" an immigration document allowing to enter US but not travel around the world. I'd change the name so at least call an airline company and after making sure i speak to a competent person and check if that's the case. Edited by agnesb

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~ Moved from AOS from Family Based to Working & Traveling During US Immigration - topic is travel, not AOS process ~

Link to K-1 instructions for Ciudad Juarez, Mexico > https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/K1/CDJ_Ciudad-Juarez-2-22-2021.pdf

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mrrichard   1

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Bought ticket in wife's Green Card name (married name). Passport is in maiden (Russian) name. Decided better to have ticket in passport (maiden) name after looking at many posts here and thinking about it. It makes much more sense. So, what to do? I called the airline. They changed the name on the ticket to my wife's maiden (Russian) name within one day at no cost. They actually seem to have replaced the original e-ticket with a new one. I don't know if it matters that I called with the change request the morning after placing the original order online; maybe I intercepted some process between America and Moscow (where the airline is headquartered). Or they just do this kind of thing routinely. My wife feels much better now.

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shilpa3846 Newbie

shilpa3846   1

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Hi All

I have my maiden last name on my passport and my married last name on Conditional Green Card.

Will that affect me traveling internationally or working here?

I have been following this link and what I read is, as long as the flight tickets match my passport and I have my marriage certificate its fine to travel internationally. Please let me know if its still valid since the post has been a year old, so wanted to know opinions

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The information is still valid.

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

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Skeiamn   24

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My case just got approved, my passport is in my maiden name. Should I just get my passport changed and then update NFC of the changes. To avoid this issue?

I-485

[Day 01 ] October 4 - Status "Fingerprint fee received"

[Day 36 ] November 9 - Biometric Appointment

[Day 37 ] November 10 - Status changed to "Request for Initial evidence was mailed"

[Day 41 ] November 14 - Received RFIE notice

[Day 44 ] November 17 - Mailed off Response

[Day 47 ] November 21 - Status Changed to ''Response to USCIS request for evidence was received'

[Day 57 ] December 01 - Status changed to "Request for Initial evidence was mailed"

[Day 61 ] November 05 - Received RFIE notice

[Day 68 ] December 07 - Mailed off Response

I-765

[Day 1 ] October 4 - Status "Case was received"

[Day 1/57] December 01 - Form I-765 will be processed within 90 days of the receipt of the requested evidence :cry:

[Day 58] December 7 - No updates :clock:
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