Hit a bump and need some advice on flying with the wife.

[St&Sv 33]

Greetings everyone, It's been quite awhile since I've been active on the forums but I've been more active offline now that the wife is here. Thing is though we have hit a sort of a snag that I thought would be an easy coasting road. So I was hoping to turn to anyone with a similar experience for advice.

The problem: I've booked a flight for my wife and I to Denver that will be in 2 weeks and used her new married name. The only thing we have linking her to the new married name is the marriage License. The social security office would not issue her a new card with the new name until after the work permit or green card is issued. We have also just recently started the AoS (submitted and received by the USCIS) and her I-94 is now expired. I thought it would be easy to obtain her a State ID card and so we tried that today and found a road block. Additional information needed to be received from the USCIS in order for them to process it, and so we have to wait. When they will get back to us, we are not sure, and being that I booked her tickets in her married name I wonder if I should change it to her maiden to match her K1 VISA. We now plan to bring a certified copy of the marriage license with us and use her international passport w/k1 visa as her photo proof of who she is. I'm concerned that with the only the maiden name it make create a hassle when trying to board the plane.

Has anyone had a similar experience and what did you do?

[southernman 29]

You should have no problems as long as she has her passport with visa and your marriage certificate.

[Umka36 781]

Can you even change the name once you book the flight? If it's allowed, I would change it to match her passport.

[Protocol417 161]

I'm confused by what you mean by "match her K-1 visa". Do you mean match her passport?

If so, I would follow Umka36's advice. From everything I've read, the name on the ticket should match the ID. If you're unable to change the name or cancel the flight and rebook, then bring the marriage certificate which is proof of name change.

I don't have personal experience with this (I've always booked my tickets with the name on my passport, even if that was not my current name) but I have read of people doing this on travel blogs and having success.

[Sirdaniel42 86]

The name on the ticket must be the same as the name in her passport, call your airline and have them issue you a new ticket with the correct name!!

Good Luck.

[St&Sv 33]

Whoa quick responses, thank you everyone for the advice. As per what I meant by the K1 visa I was referring the K1 Visa that is within the international passport.

[vbtwo 54]

It's a domestic flight? I don't know what exactly they'll accept, they might accept the marriage certificate as proof of name change or they might not.

For international flights the name on the ticket must always match what's in the passport and it doesn't matter what the current name is.