Last Name on AOS documents?

[MASH 172]

Hey everyone,

I was just wondering if I am able to put my last name with my husbands last name for the documents? What I mean is I got married and got marriage certificate from Texas but it just has my former last name on it same with my SSN but I wish my green card to have my original last name with my husbands last name in it? Am I able to do that or just put only my last name in the documents I'm going to be sending for the AOS?

Edited January 26, 2016 by MASH

[Dashinka 24,804]

If you decided to adopt your husband's family name, then use that for the AOS documents. Many marriage certificates do not specifically show a name change (our's is similar to your's), but they still function as a legal name change document in the US. Once you get your EAD/AP or GC in your new married name you can go and change it on your SSC. Theoretically you should be able to change the SSC with just your marriage certificate, but when you include the immigration factor, the SSA becomes clueless, and it is easier to make the change once you have your new cards in your married name.

Good Luck!

[Jerseygirl28 1]

I recently got married and I did have to specify my last name change. In the AOS documents they ask you for prove of last name change. In my case it was my marriage certificate. You have to legally change your name first, and then apply for AOS if that is what you want.

Good Luck!

Edited January 26, 2016 by Jerseygirl28

[Unidentified 2,930]

I recently got married and I did have to specify my last name change. In the AOS documents they ask you for prove of last name change. In my case it was my marriage certificate. You have to legally change your name first, and then apply for AOS if that is what you want.

Good Luck!

Your name change on your marriage certificate is the legal name change so only thing you need to do is wrote your married last name on the AOS and send in the marriage certificate. Even if the state you live in doesn't have a space where you put your new name in, they still understand that you have taken your husband's last name.

[Jerseygirl28 1]

Your name change on your marriage certificate is the legal name change so only thing you need to do is wrote your married last name on the AOS and send in the marriage certificate. Even if the state you live in doesn't have a space where you put your new name in, they still understand that you have taken your husband's last name.

Yes, that is what I did. In her marriage certificate is written her former "unmarried" last name. So I am assuming she did not change it at the time of the marriage. She will have to do it before filing AOS.

[Unidentified 2,930]

Yes, that is what I did. In her marriage certificate is written her former "unmarried" last name. So I am assuming she did not change it at the time of the marriage. She will have to do it before filing AOS.

If she had no choice but to write her maiden name (she had to write her name as in her passport or birth certificate) and there was no space that asked her to specify her new last name, she still does not have to do anything to change her last name. The marriage certificate is the only thing they need as, when she uses her married name, they look at the husband's last name and know she changed it. The marriage certificate is the legal name change regardless if there is a space to specifically write your married name or if you should only write your name as specified on birth certificate or what it says in her passport.

[Dashinka 24,804]

If she had no choice but to write her maiden name (she had to write her name as in her passport or birth certificate) and there was no space that asked her to specify her new last name, she still does not have to do anything to change her last name. The marriage certificate is the only thing they need as, when she uses her married name, they look at the husband's last name and know she changed it. The marriage certificate is the legal name change regardless if there is a space to specifically write your married name or if you should only write your name as specified on birth certificate or what it says in her passport.

I agree with Maria&Steve. Our marriage certificate only had one space for my finance's name which had to match her ID (i.e. Maiden name). There was no special section specifically for the name change which sounds similar to the situation the OP described. We did not do anything else regarding her now married name other than to file all our AOS forms with the new married name, then changing it on her SSC and DL. No other legal processes were necessary.