Name change question(Court Order)

[deathbydalbhat 0]

Hello all,

I changed my name legally for religious reasons by court order 4 years ago and all of my day-to-day employment- and financial-related records (IRS forms, checking account, ss card, etc.) are in my new name. However, I never bothered changing or amending it in my passport because I didn't want to be labled as a troublemaker by the Chinese government on my trip to Tibet last year for having a Tibetan first name as a Euro-American - maybe sounds crazy or paranoid but this is what my tour leader at the time recommended. Will this be a problem and what should I do? How much of a snag will the name change be likely to cause in the process even if I include a copy of the court order in my K1 packet?

[payxibka 10,047]

Hello all,

I changed my name legally for religious reasons by court order 4 years ago and all of my day-to-day employment- and financial-related records (IRS forms, checking account, ss card, etc.) are in my new name. However, I never bothered changing or amending it in my passport because I didn't want to be labled as a troublemaker by the Chinese government on my trip to Tibet last year for having a Tibetan first name as a Euro-American - maybe sounds crazy or paranoid but this is what my tour leader at the time recommended. Will this be a problem and what should I do? How much of a snag will the name change be likely to cause in the process even if I include a copy of the court order in my K1 packet?

As the USC you are not required to provide the USCIS with a copy of your passport, so unless you do they will never know or see the discrepancy. You will provide a copy of you birth certificate and then provide a copy of the legal name change document to bridge the gap from your birth name to your current legal name.

[deathbydalbhat 0]

Hello all,

I changed my name legally for religious reasons by court order 4 years ago and all of my day-to-day employment- and financial-related records (IRS forms, checking account, ss card, etc.) are in my new name. However, I never bothered changing or amending it in my passport because I didn't want to be labled as a troublemaker by the Chinese government on my trip to Tibet last year for having a Tibetan first name as a Euro-American - maybe sounds crazy or paranoid but this is what my tour leader at the time recommended. Will this be a problem and what should I do? How much of a snag will the name change be likely to cause in the process even if I include a copy of the court order in my K1 packet?

As the USC you are not required to provide the USCIS with a copy of your passport, so unless you do they will never know or see the discrepancy. You will provide a copy of you birth certificate and then provide a copy of the legal name change document to bridge the gap from your birth name to your current legal name.

Thanks - *sigh of relief*...

[William33 110]

Fwaguy,

Really? I sent in a copy of my US passport and still got an RFE for photocopies of all the pages.

As the USC you are not required to provide the USCIS with a copy of your passport, so unless you do they will never know or see the discrepancy. You will provide a copy of you birth certificate and then provide a copy of the legal name change document to bridge the gap from your birth name to your current legal name.

[payxibka 10,047]

Fwaguy,

Really? I sent in a copy of my US passport and still got an RFE for photocopies of all the pages.

Yep, if you look at the instructions, for identification purposes it is birth certificate OR if bc not available then passport identification page.

The reason you may have been asked for all pages of your passport was if you copied your ID page and a page showing entry/exit stamps showing activity in/out of your fiancee's country, unless on the page with the entry stamps you could show your name (ie.. say next to a required visa), they could ask for all pages of your passport becausethe page 16 of the passport you included (for example) as evidence could be anyones page 16 and they are trying to pull it together.

Does that make any sense?

[deathbydalbhat 0]

Fwaguy,

Really? I sent in a copy of my US passport and still got an RFE for photocopies of all the pages.

Yep, if you look at the instructions, for identification purposes it is birth certificate OR if bc not available then passport identification page.

The reason you may have been asked for all pages of your passport was if you copied your ID page and a page showing entry/exit stamps showing activity in/out of your fiancee's country, unless on the page with the entry stamps you could show your name (ie.. say next to a required visa), they could ask for all pages of your passport becausethe page 16 of the passport you included (for example) as evidence could be anyones page 16 and they are trying to pull it together.

Does that make any sense?

I was wondering this also, thought of it after posing my original ? but didn't know how to frame the question. I will need to show my Nepali visa which does not have my name on it, so I will need to show my passport after all, no?

[Texas Bound 0]

Dont leave any room for error. Put in complete copies of both passport, birth Cert & your name change documentation. It is worth the extra copies to not have an RFE & be delayed up to 3 weeks.

[payxibka 10,047]

I was wondering this also, thought of it after posing my original ? but didn't know how to frame the question. I will need to show my Nepali visa which does not have my name on it, so I will need to show my passport after all, no?

If you show your passport then show the whole thing

[deathbydalbhat 0]

Dont leave any room for error. Put in complete copies of both passport, birth Cert & your name change documentation. It is worth the extra copies to not have an RFE & be delayed up to 3 weeks.

Thank you - you're right, better safe then sorry - will include everything.