Discrepency with marriage certificate

[M+M 55]

Hello everyone,

 

I am about to send in our AOS packet after the labor day holiday and I have a quick questions that I am hoping someone on this forum can answer. Yesterday, my husband and I went to pick up our certified marriage certificate and we noticed an error once we got home. My husband doesn't think it is a big deal but I wanted to double check, just in case someone else had a similar situation.

 

Normally, in America, women take the husband's last name when they get married. In Morocco, the women keeps her maiden name and gives the husband's last name to their children. For example, my husband last name is Abouraxxxx, which is also his dad's name. On our certified marriage certificate, it says Lala Sihxx Abouraxxxx and not her maiden name, which is El Anxxx. When I submitted the K-1 visa paper,  I wrote her name as Lala Sihxx El Anxxx. This is also the name that is one our AOS documents. 

 

Is this going to be a problem? Should I have them fix the marriage certificate before we send it in? Thanks again in advance! I really appreciate all the help! 

Edited September 1, 2018 by TBoneTX
real names disguised

[Jo Së 200]

In Part 1 of I-485 make sure to type what her name was before she married you where it asks for "Other Names You Have Used Since Birth".

 

Also, when you ask questions in public websites never use real names or any other personal information, which I hope you didn't, and if you did I would suggest editing your post if you can.

[M+M 55]

Too late...I didn't think it was that personal since they were just last names. I sort of felt last names were okay to use. But thanks for the advice to use in the future. 

 

But, her name never changed, it is a mistake on the certificate. She doesn't go by any other names. The court just put the same last name because culturally, American's take the last name of the husband. 

[Jo Së 200]

1 hour ago, M+M said:

The court just put the same last name because culturally, American's take the last name of the husband. 

Culturally yes, but they don't (shouldn't) automatically do it without you telling them to.  So, unless you filled out the paperwork wrong, that is a mistake they made and you should probably return to the court and fix the issue, they don't just change names because they want to, they go off of the paperwork filled out by the customer.

[TBoneTX 45,305]

Real names in original post have been disguised.  This is a VERY public forum.

[M+M 55]

I ended up being able to edit it so that is no longer a big deal. I am afraid my situation is still unclear because that is not the issue that I am trying to solve. Paperwork was not filed incorrectly. It was a mistake the court made due to assumptions.

 

When we went to apply for the marriage license, they would not accept the birth certificate of my husband because his father's name (family name) wasn't was on the birth certificate. In Morocco,  birth certificates don't have last names of the parents, even in the original and the translation. It will say "son of..." and then parent's first names. So they made us go to a notary (or something like that) where they just asked to see his passport and asked how to spell his father's name, not the mother's name. Their first names were on the translated document. They just naturally assumed that the same name. We did not see that this mistake was made until after the fact. 
 

Will I have a problem with this paperwork/AOS packet and should we got to the court and get it fixed before we send it in since the  name on the I-129 paperwork is different than the one of the marriage certificate. Once again this is only concerning my husbands mother.