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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: India
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I am so sorry if I’m posting this in wrong spot! 
Ok, so I have had nothing but problems with getting my last name changed to my Indian husband’s last name since returning to the US. 
My first trip to Social Security office was November 11,2019 and I’m still without  husbands last name because of my small SS office never dealing with an Indian marriage certificate before. 
They have denied my name change application, requested more proof in the form of wedding pictures and written statements from witnesses to our marriage and they have now required me to fill out another application and submit everything once again before determining if they can process my name change based off of my “proof” (quotation marks are theirs). 
So tomorrow, my mom and I are making another trip to SS office to submit everything again since last time I mailed everything to them, our original marriage certificate got lost in the mail🤦‍♀️. We are hoping that my mom can help convince them that our marriage is 100% legit. 
So this is what I am planning on presenting  to them tomorrow and I just want to see if anyone has any other ideas of things I should show them so I can get my husbands last name. The items with a * are items they have requested from me.


Our Original Indian Special Marriage Certificate* 

My passport *
My original birth certificate*

New name change application *
My drivers license*
The 5 pages of printed wedding pictures* 

3 signed and dated witness statements with witnesses complete names and addresses*
Any other proof that can prove we were married*
And I’m also bringing printed pages of what the Social Security handbook states is accepted proof of a legal name change & what documents they accept as proof for a name change & also what the government says it accepts as legal proof of a marriage from India. 
 

Am I missing anything that anyone can think of? 
Social Security isn’t questioning the legitimacy of our marriage being a love marriage, they are questioning that it actually happened and don’t think that our marriage certificate is enough proof of our marriage happening to be able to issue me a new SS card with my husbands last name. 
I can also show them dozens of before, during and after wedding pictures, messages between family and friends that day and we also had a lawyer in Mumbai that helped us get all our documents together for our wedding so I can show them the lawyer fee payment bank transfers and communication we’ve had with her and her legal assistant that was at our wedding himself to make sure we had no problems. 

 

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