Changing last name necessary?

[Mike E 11,739]

5 hours ago, Mollie09 said:

 

I have no idea where you get this idea. Are you a time traveler from the 1950s?

Again. I got that idea from an incident reported on flyertalk in the safety/security forum.  

 

And yes married couples in the USA have the same last name. 

 

I apologize if facts disagree with your idealization of how the universe should be. 

 

As as for your ad hominem against me, again, I’ve advised my fiancée to not add my last name to her legal name after we are married.

 

I’ve  traveled over two million miles by air, about 100,000 miles each year, and enter the USA about a half dozen times a year.

 

I’ve experienced lots of things from CBP that you would assert CBP should not care about, and you would be right. But CBP doesn’t have to follow your ideal or my ideal.  Unless one has extremely deep pockets and can bring CBP to heel.   

 

Thanks for the lesson though. 

[Crazy Cat 41,837]

19 hours ago, Mike E said:

Married couples with different last names are unusual to CBP officers and so the likelihood of a hassle goes up.

Huh?  That's news to me.....

[Lemonslice 4,836]

17 minutes ago, Mike E said:

Again. I got that idea from an incident reported on flyertalk in the safety/security forum.  

 

And yes married couples in the USA have the same last name. 

 

I apologize if facts disagree with your idealization of how the universe should be. 

 

As as for your ad hominem against me, again, I’ve advised my fiancée to not add my last name to her legal name after we are married.

 

I’ve  traveled over two million miles by air, about 100,000 miles each year, and enter the USA about a half dozen times a year.

 

I’ve experienced lots of things from CBP that you would assert CBP should not care about, and you would be right. But CBP doesn’t have to follow your ideal or my ideal.  Unless one has extremely deep pockets and can bring CBP to heel.   

 

Thanks for the lesson though. 

 

You do realize that spouses keep their birth name in the USA and in many other countries, right?  They're at the border dealing with foreigners (and locals) every day. 

 

I've had my share of weird interaction with CBP (and I can provide details on how to travel with electronics and not let them access private, classified, or proprietary information), but they don't care about names. They do ask questions to analyze reactions, that they do all the time. 

[Mike E 11,739]

42 minutes ago, Lemonslice said:

 

You do realize that spouses keep their birth name in the USA and in many other countries, right?  They're at the border dealing with foreigners (and locals) every day. 

 

I've had my share of weird interaction with CBP (and I can provide details on how to travel with electronics and not let them access private, classified, or proprietary information), but they don't care about names. They do ask questions to analyze reactions, that they do all the time. 

Yes I do realize that some spouses keep their birth names. 

 

I mean that in the USA most spouses have the same last name. 

 

Your  assertion  CBP doesn’t care about names is easily falsifiable. You are saying that in millions  of entries into the USA the CBP has never ever asked someone about their name? Rubbish.  

 

As for how you prevent CBP from reading the info on your electronics, by all means, do tell.  

Edited January 2, 2019 by Mike E

[geowrian 22,337]

1 hour ago, Mike E said:

You are saying that in millions  of entries into the USA the CBP has never ever asked someone about their name?

I'm sure they have asked. At the same time - like most questions they ask - I doubt they cared about the answer...just that they had an answer that made sense.

[NikLR 13,227]

On 1/1/2019 at 5:30 PM, Mike E said:

Yes I do realize that some spouses keep their birth names. 

 

I mean that in the USA most spouses have the same last name. 

 

Your  assertion  CBP doesn’t care about names is easily falsifiable. You are saying that in millions  of entries into the USA the CBP has never ever asked someone about their name? Rubbish.  

 

As for how you prevent CBP from reading the info on your electronics, by all means, do tell.  

What you don't know how to do that with all that travel?!  I'm shook.