Changing name during Naturalization in San Francisco CA

[Pinkranger 0]

Happy New Year everyone!

Anyone here who had a recent experience in changing name during naturalization in SF? I read an old post that it's not that easy if you're doing it in SF, just SF alone.

Here's the old post: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/438333-name-change-during-naturalization-in-san-francisco/

Doesn't sound good

[JimmyHou 611]

From everything I've managed to find, this may be limited to northern California offices. Normally, you would be able to fill out the name change section on the N400, sign the name change forms at your interview, and officially change your name at a judicial oath ceremony, but there are several posts out there about the San Jose and San Francisco offices refusing to accept name change requests.

Here's a San Jose experience:

http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?323449-Name-change-in-San-Jose

Note that one of the replies on that link states that said San Jose will still accept name change requests where the only change is taking a spouse's last name - San Francisco may do the same.

[Pinkranger 0]

Oh wow, thanks a lot for your help. So I guess it's nothing new.