Changing name after filing I-485/I-130

[zmay777 0]

Alright so I have a question for everyone here!

My wife and I recently filed our I-485/I-130 AoS packet, but since doing so have come upon a new problem. Well, I'm not sure I'd call it a problem, but rather a concern that we have. When we got married here in the U.S. last November we decided not to change our name right away since it would have just be a pain to contact all of the different banks and such at that time for us. As such, our marriage certificate has her maiden name on it, and when we submitted her AoS packet we also filled it out using her maiden name. The problem however, lies in the fact that after talking with the Japanese embassy about notifying the country of our marriage, we were told that it'd be best to file the paperwork for the marriage with the country using her married last name instead of her maiden name. The reason for this being that, if we don't, then it'll be a pain to go to court and change it later on.

Now the concern that we have is that after submitting the paperwork for her marriage using her married last name, she'll have to update and change her Japanese passport to that new last name. Once her passport changes, the name will no longer match up with the paperwork filed for her AoS, so her green card will arrive with her maiden name, whereas her passport will have her married name. We plan to go through the process of changing her name on the U.S. side of things here as well, but the big issue is the discrepancy between the future green card and passport name differences. Once she gets her green card, we plan to leave the country temporarily to go back to Japan to take care of various things on that end, but our fear is that when we try to come back to the U.S. after that, she will be denied entry to the U.S. due to the different names on the two different pieces of identification.

So my question for you all is whether there is a way for us to change her name that we submitted on her AoS before the green card is created? Is there even any need to worry about going through all of this; would she be denied entry to the U.S. because of the different last names on her green card and passport? I couldn't find any topics with this exact problem so I'm just unsure as to what the next step we should take is. Thanks for your time and consideration!