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Entheos   95

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Hi all,

 

Small amount of background....

 

I am the Beneficiary/Visa Applicant. (Australian)

 

I am Male.

 

My Fiancée is the US Citizen

 

My Fiancée is Female.

 

She plans to change her last name name once we marry.

 

I have started to pre fill out the I485 form and am at the part where it talks about the current spouse and their name.

 

We will be filing almost immediately after marriage all going well so that it is filed before the October 1st deadline of the fee increase.... which is why I’m filling stuff out now....cause it’s going to be close....

 

Under the ‘current spouse’ name, should I write what her married name will be?  Or what it currently is, and then update it later with USCIS once the name change actually occurs on her passport/driver’s license, SSN, etc?  Or do we put what her married name WILL be per the marriage certificate?

 

Also on the same page it has former spouse.... and then refers to my former spouse’s MAIDEN name??  As opposed to her current legal name after marriage.... that is correct yet?  If she was Jane Smith before marriage and became Jane Stevens after marriage, I write this as Jane Smith, yes?

 

Thank you all so much!!

 

Just trying to have everything ready... :)

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Ayrton   965

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11 minutes ago, Entheos said:

Hi all,

 

Small amount of background....

 

I am the Beneficiary/Visa Applicant. (Australian)

 

I am Male.

 

My Fiancée is the US Citizen

 

My Fiancée is Female.

 

She plans to change her last name name once we marry.

 

I have started to pre fill out the I485 form and am at the part where it talks about the current spouse and their name.

 

We will be filing almost immediately after marriage all going well so that it is filed before the October 1st deadline of the fee increase.... which is why I’m filling stuff out now....cause it’s going to be close....

 

Under the ‘current spouse’ name, should I write what her married name will be?  Or what it currently is, and then update it later with USCIS once the name change actually occurs on her passport/driver’s license, SSN, etc?  Or do we put what her married name WILL be per the marriage certificate?

 

Also on the same page it has former spouse.... and then refers to my former spouse’s MAIDEN name??  As opposed to her current legal name after marriage.... that is correct yet?  If she was Jane Smith before marriage and became Jane Stevens after marriage, I write this as Jane Smith, yes?

 

Thank you all so much!!

 

Just trying to have everything ready... :)

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You're supposed to fill out the form after getting married. Her legal name will be the one she chooses, so after getting married, the new name will be her legal name.

 

The second part is about previous marriage. You will enter your ex wife maiden name.

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Entheos   95

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Just now, Ayrton said:

You're supposed to fill out the form after getting married. Her legal name will be the one she chooses, so after getting married, the new name will be her legal name.

Yes... i know it is done ‘post marriage’, I’m just getting them mostly prepared for after the wedding as assuming all goes to plan currently, we will have a very short window to get the forms filed between the planned wedding date and the increase of fees for AOS/EAD/AP.  I guess my concern is that my US Citizen fiancée who will be my wife when we sign and file these forms won’t have done any name change stuff yet (it’ll quite literally be as soon as we have the marriage certificate from the local county).  Who we are getting all our docs and forms READY for when it’s time to file.  I realize that probably 90% of the marriages on here are mostly Male US Citizen and Female K-1 Applicant.

 

So essentially even though she won’t have any documents with her married name on them (including the bio page on her passport and D/L, etc) this won’t matter for the purposes of filing the AOS forms as they are all filed with the marriage certificate anyway, yes?

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A marriage certificate is enough to show proof of legal name change. You don’t have to wait until her DL, SSN, passport etc have been updated. She doesn’t even have to change her name. Maybe she will change her mind about that between now and the wedding? 
 

If she is going to change her name, the marriage certificate (which you have to send anyway) will suffice. 

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Ayrton   965

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12 minutes ago, Entheos said:

Yes... i know it is done ‘post marriage’, I’m just getting them mostly prepared for after the wedding as assuming all goes to plan currently, we will have a very short window to get the forms filed between the planned wedding date and the increase of fees for AOS/EAD/AP.  I guess my concern is that my US Citizen fiancée who will be my wife when we sign and file these forms won’t have done any name change stuff yet (it’ll quite literally be as soon as we have the marriage certificate from the local county).  Who we are getting all our docs and forms READY for when it’s time to file.  I realize that probably 90% of the marriages on here are mostly Male US Citizen and Female K-1 Applicant.

 

So essentially even though she won’t have any documents with her married name on them (including the bio page on her passport and D/L, etc) this won’t matter for the purposes of filing the AOS forms as they are all filed with the marriage certificate anyway, yes?

The marriage license/certificate is the name change stuff.

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Don't worry. We get married a week today and I have already finished most of the forms for the same reason as you - I want them in ASAP before the fee change. No reason you have to wait until after marriage to start it. I've just put my married name on them and my current as a previous name! Just like I would after marriage. No big deal.

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5 hours ago, Cilllah said:

Don't worry. We get married a week today and I have already finished most of the forms for the same reason as you - I want them in ASAP before the fee change. No reason you have to wait until after marriage to start it. I've just put my married name on them and my current as a previous name! Just like I would after marriage. No big deal.

The only thing to be concerned with if you fill out forms in advance is to double check if new form versions come out before you actually send things in (and I guess these days injunction ping-pong on the I-944). Which happened to us (one form got a newer version), but it still saved a lot of time and we had things in the mail shortly after we had copies of our marriage certificate in hand. 

K-1                             AOS                            
NOA1 Notice Date: 2018-05-31    NOA1 Notice Date: 2019-04-11   
NOA2 Date: 2018-11-16           Biometrics Date: 2019-05-10    
Arrived at NVC:  2018-12-03     EAD/AP In Hand: 2019-09-16     
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Wedding: 2019-03-14

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Approval Date: 2022-04-06       Interview was Scheduled: 2023-01-06
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Entheos   95

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1 hour ago, DaveAndAnastasia said:

The only thing to be concerned with if you fill out forms in advance is to double check if new form versions come out before you actually send things in (and I guess these days injunction ping-pong on the I-944). Which happened to us (one form got a newer version), but it still saved a lot of time and we had things in the mail shortly after we had copies of our marriage certificate in hand.

Yeah, I’ve been monitoring this.  The forms I have are currently current... and yes, I’ve been monitoring the I944 Very closely....It’s such a paint full form to complete.  I’m still going to have it filled out I think.... and keep my eye on that situation very closely....  The ‘credit check’ is going to be the lease of my troubles here, as I already have a credit score and SSN....lol.... it’s all the other little bits.

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Ayrton   965

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6 minutes ago, Entheos said:

Yeah, I’ve been monitoring this.  The forms I have are currently current... and yes, I’ve been monitoring the I944 Very closely....It’s such a paint full form to complete.  I’m still going to have it filled out I think.... and keep my eye on that situation very closely....  The ‘credit check’ is going to be the lease of my troubles here, as I already have a credit score and SSN....lol.... it’s all the other little bits.

Make sure you have the new 765 that was just released.

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Entheos   95

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1 minute ago, Ayrton said:

Make sure you have the new 765 that was just released.

Yeah.  It will be posted after August 25th, so I downloaded the 8/25/20 version. Thanks for checking hat though!

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15 hours ago, Entheos said:

Yeah.  It will be posted after August 25th, so I downloaded the 8/25/20 version. Thanks for checking hat though!

Oh that edition is out now? I have been waiting! Thanks for the heads up!

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3 minutes ago, Cilllah said:

Oh that edition is out now? I have been waiting! Thanks for the heads up!

It's been on the website as a preview since the beginning of the week.

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