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Brassballs   48

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Situation:

Married my wife in the Philippines in May 2014. She has a 3 year old daughter. On the daughter's birth certificate it lists father as unknown.

Filed I-130 in June for my wife and her daughter using wife's last name for her daughter.

My wife indicates that she can apply at the NSO or other agency, using our marriage certificate as evidence to petition for a surname name change for her daughter to mine. And then apply for the daughter's passport using my surname (she does not have a passport now). If that is true what issues will it cause at visa issuing time if the surname on the application is different than what is on the daughter's passport?

Or would it be best to obtain daughter's passport using her mother's surname?

And then proceed with official adoption after arrival in the US?

Second question what is the difference between a surname name change and actual adoption? Legal or otherwise? In reading other topics they appear to be mutually exclusive, so I'm somewhat confused.

Thanks for advice and enlightenment.

Jim

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Hypnos   6,579

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A name change is exactly that, a name change only. The legal parent-child relationship between the father and child would still exist, and literally nothing else would change other than the name.

It would be easier for you to petition for your step-child yourself, and then pursue a step-parent adoption in the US down the line if that's something you wished to do. You would need to file another I-130 for the daughter if you chose this path.

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Hank_   9,174

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Situation:

Married my wife in the Philippines in May 2014. She has a 3 year old daughter. On the daughter's birth certificate it lists father as unknown.

Filed I-130 in June for my wife and her daughter using wife's last name for her daughter.

My wife indicates that she can apply at the NSO or other agency, using our marriage certificate as evidence to petition for a surname name change for her daughter to mine. And then apply for the daughter's passport using my surname (she does not have a passport now). If that is true what issues will it cause at visa issuing time if the surname on the application is different than what is on the daughter's passport?

Or would it be best to obtain daughter's passport using her mother's surname?

And then proceed with official adoption after arrival in the US?

Second question what is the difference between a surname name change and actual adoption? Legal or otherwise? In reading other topics they appear to be mutually exclusive, so I'm somewhat confused.

Thanks for advice and enlightenment.

Jim

You did the I-130 with the names on the birth certificates as they currently are, don't mess things up at the home stretch.

You can always adopt the daughter ..... later.

name change is just as it sounds... adoption is just as it sounds.

Hank

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