Passport/visa name mismatch

[kooshball 0]

Getting paperwork together to file I-130 in London, but I'm stymied by proof of residency for DCF.  In a nutshell, I married in October, changed my name/passport in November, and have been trying since then to get my name changed on my UK visa.  Due to repeated errors by the Home Office, I still don't have my new residence card, only a photocopy of the one in my maiden name which is valid through next February.

 

Basically, if I submit a copy of my passport with current name, (canceled) passport with maiden name, marriage certificate, and visa with maiden name, will that be good enough for USCIS, or do I have to wait and pray that it doesn't take another four months to get my new visa?

 

Argh. Thanks.

Edited February 2, 2017 by kooshball

[mindthegap 2,594]

I certainly wouldn't be waiting 4 months for it before submitting- the whole DCF process could be done and dusted by then if all your ducks are in a row, or at least a significant way through.

 

A change of name from marriage doesn't suddenly render your prior legal residence or name irrelevant... as long it was legal and valid before (and would still be currently valid) and you have copies, submit them, perhaps with a short note explaining it is in the process of being swapped to your married name.

The I-130 form does ask for 'other names used (including maiden name)' and this will definitely have been something they will have encountered before.

 

Edited February 2, 2017 by mindthegap

[kooshball 0]

That's helpful, thank you.  I'm just so fed up with dealing with the Home Office that I can't believe any government agency could be that sensible :-/

[mindthegap 2,594]

 Considering you are about to be dealing with USCIS for at a minimum the next 4 years, I guarantee that you will be uttering that statement again.

 

 

Edited February 2, 2017 by mindthegap

[kooshball 0]

18 minutes ago, mindthegap said:

 Considering you are about to be dealing with USCIS for at a minimum the next 4 years, I guarantee that you will be uttering that statement again.

 

 

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[DaveSana 13]

We just completed the DCF process.

The Embassy did NOT let my spouse use her married name.

The name on the passport was what we have to live with.

The social security card, the green card, they will all be in the name on the passport.

We have been dreading it, and working with it for five weeks.

Will wait till Removal of Conditions 1.7 years from now and then see if they will let us change the name.

Otherwise, you have to first change the name on the passport, then you change the name at USCIS, then the green card gets changed, then you change the social, then the driver's license....and each change costs money. It is $500 or so if you simply file for a  name change on the green card. 

 

The name in the passport seems to determine everything. Then once you get here, the name on the green card does, which will be the same as on the passport and the visa. My spouse got a CR1 spousal visa, with the married name, and they knew about the marriage (of course) and our preference to use the married name going forward, yet they did not care, and it did not matter.

 

If you can manage to get them to issue the visa in your married name, you are golden.

If they do not, you are stuck with more costly and lengthy remedies, it seems to us.

 

Best,

 

Dave

Edited February 3, 2017 by DaveSana