Confused on when exactly married name is valid to use

[K1visaHopeful 2,814]

5 hours ago, Kerri and Myles said:

Alright so on the enrollment insurance form it asks for her name, and Social Security Number, if we use her married name, even though the Social Security Card states her Maiden name as we havn't gotten her EAD yet so we havn't gotten that changed to her married it won't mess anything up, we can use her married name for this insurance form, and everything else going forward? 

Yes. Her marriage certificate is her legal name change document not the SSN. HI will require the MC IF they require anything. They only need the SS NUMBER not the card. Whatever name on it is irrelevant.

5 hours ago, Kerri and Myles said:

 

Is her name actually her married name now? 

Yes! BUT SOME PLACES like SSA will require other documents ie. An Immigration benefit card stating her new name in order to use her new married name. Banks MAY require that or an SSN card in the married name too. Go to a different bank for one that doesn't if you must.

 

5 hours ago, Kerri and Myles said:

 

If so what exactly was it that changed her name to her married name making it alright for her to start using that.  

The MC. Period.

[K1visaHopeful 2,814]

4 hours ago, Kerri and Myles said:

How to go about getting the name changed on the passport?  And I thought for the Social Security Card best to use EAD which she doesn't have yet.

It will depend on her country and the documents required to change her name on her passport in that country.

In Canada I could not update my passport name until I had a piece of ID in my married name like my EAD or DL and I could not get my DL until I got my SSN in my married name and I could not get my SSN in my married name until I got my EAD in my married name.

Most SSA agents will not change the SSN name until you have an Immigration benefit card in that name because they don't know their own rules and they dont deal with enough K1 NON-IMMIGRANT VISAS.

This is why it comes up again and again and again about not bothering to try to change the SSN name until you have EAD in the married name.

[Duke & Marie 1,389]

10 hours ago, K1visaHopeful said:

It will depend on her country and the documents required to change her name on her passport in that country.

In Canada I could not update my passport name until I had a piece of ID in my married name like my EAD or DL and I could not get my DL until I got my SSN in my married name and I could not get my SSN in my married name until I got my EAD in my married name.

Most SSA agents will not change the SSN name until you have an Immigration benefit card in that name because they don't know their own rules and they dont deal with enough K1 NON-IMMIGRANT VISAS.

This is why it comes up again and again and again about not bothering to try to change the SSN name until you have EAD in the married name.

Same, I needed marriage certificate, driver licence, and seperatly issued certificate of legal name change with the government to change my passport... 

[dentsflogged 352]

19 hours ago, USS_Voyager said:

Yes yes yes

 

Yes

generally they want to see EAD

 

 

No, the marriage certificate is the legal document that changed her name. The NOA1 means nothing. It's just a receipt notice. 

 

Yes, since she got married to you, that's when her name changed. 

Going to be pedantic (without reading the rest of the thread, dangerous game of being that person who repeats the 10th time) but marriage + the marriage certificate means that she has the right to use OP's last name, not that it changed automatically. 

OP as others have said - this is easy and you're overthinking it.   You literally just need a copy of the marriage certificate and her old ID in order to get it changed with the various places (I'm honestly not sure about SSN process since I'm keeping my maiden name so it's not something I bothered looking up) where she's already known as Jane X to get it changed to Jane Y.   Anywhere she's not already registered can simply just be started as Jane Y with no need to tell them if that's her maiden name, married name or otherwise.   

Edited November 9, 2019 by dentsflogged

[USS_Voyager 1,972]

2 hours ago, dentsflogged said:

Going to be pedantic (without reading the rest of the thread, dangerous game of being that person who repeats the 10th time) but marriage + the marriage certificate means that she has the right to use OP's last name, not that it changed automatically. 

Tomato vs to-mah-to

 

2 hours ago, dentsflogged said:

I'm honestly not sure about SSN process

Same as everything else, you show them the marriage certificate and previous SS card and ID and say: “I’d like to have a new card under the name Jane Y please”