Change of surname after marriage registration.

[Anny111 1]

Hello.  Our marriage certificate did not include my new surname (issued in Chicago).  Now, in order to change my passport, I need a court decision to change my name.  Has anyone gone through this procedure?  Could you please provide a link to the Chicago Department of Justice website describing the procedure for changing your surname?

[JeanneAdil 6,498]

 

in order to change name here,  most of us take the marriage certificate and a birth certificate to state department of motor vehicles for a driving license or state ID

 

https://www.missnowmrs.com/how-to-change-your-name-in-illinois/#:~:text=In%20Illinois%2C%20newlyweds%20need%20to,the%20married%20name%20change%2

[Chancy 6,241]

1 hour ago, Anny111 said:

Now, in order to change my passport, I need a court decision to change my name.

 

Which country issued the passport?

 

[Anny111 1]

In Russia 

[Chancy 6,241]

3 hours ago, JeanneAdil said:

in order to change name here,  most of us take the marriage certificate and a birth certificate to state department of motor vehicles for a driving license or state ID

 

OP wants a new Russian passport, but Russia requires the new name on the marriage certificate or a name change court order.

 

4 hours ago, Anny111 said:

Could you please provide a link to the Chicago Department of Justice website describing the procedure for changing your surname?

 

http://www.cookcountycourt.org/ABOUT-THE-COURT/County-Department/County-Division/Change-of-Name-Proceedings#962471-where-to-file-a-petition-for-change-of-name

 

[Ontarkie 14,221]

~~Moved to the RUB forum, from K1 P&P - as the OP is asking about a name change on her country's passport.~~

[Anny111 1]

Thank you very much!

1 hour ago, Chancy said:

 

OP хочет новый российский паспорт, но Россия требует новую фамилию в свидетельстве о браке или постановление суда об изменении имени.

 

 

http://www.cookcountycourt.org/ABOUT-THE-COURT/County-Department/County-Division/Change-of-Name-Proceedings#962471-where-to-file-a-petition-for-change-of- название

 

 

[Dashinka 24,493]

On 4/16/2021 at 2:53 PM, Anny111 said:

In Russia 

Yes, changing names in a Russian travel passport is quite difficult.  My wife looked into it and she decided it was too much of a hassle since like you, or marriage certificate does not have a specific section for the name change and although the US recognizes marriage certificates as legal name change documents regardless of the template, the Russian government does not.  So, in order to change her passport, we would have had to get a court ordered name change, then she would have had to go back to Russia to change her name on her internal passport, then she could make the change on her travel passport.  After we looked at all the bureaucracy, she choose to keep everything as is and she had no issues with travel even though her GC, and her now US passport show her married name.

[DaveAndAnastasia 2,092]

My wife has no plans to change her name on her Russian passport either (despite having changed her name here), though we haven't been back to Russia or otherwise outside the US since she arrived on a K-1 in 2019 (first due to not being able to before advance parole or green card on a K-1, then a combination of pregnancy/having an infant around and covid).

[Anny111 1]

Thank you so much for sharing your stories.  I, too, began to be inclined not to start a change in Russian documents, but perfectionism haunted me.  It remains unclear how it will be when crossing the border and buying tickets.  We are going to travel to Russia and the UK.  Tickets to buy on my foreign passport issued in Russia under the old name.  But when returning to the US border, will they look at the parole request?  The fact that the names do not match, I hope they will not be confused.

[Dashinka 24,493]

On 4/23/2021 at 5:42 PM, Anny111 said:

Thank you so much for sharing your stories.  I, too, began to be inclined not to start a change in Russian documents, but perfectionism haunted me.  It remains unclear how it will be when crossing the border and buying tickets.  We are going to travel to Russia and the UK.  Tickets to buy on my foreign passport issued in Russia under the old name.  But when returning to the US border, will they look at the parole request?  The fact that the names do not match, I hope they will not be confused.

My wife traveled multiple times in this situation.  When she had her GC and she was traveling to Russia (or internationally), we always bought the tickets in the name on her Russian passport, and she always kept a certified copy of our marriage certificate with her.  When she re-entered the US (at least six times), she showed her GC and her Russian passport and was never asked about the name difference by US CBP.  She also had no issues transiting through China as that was the route we took to Central/Eastern Russia.  Now that she has her US passport, we book the tickets in that name, and she also has had no issues with any of the airlines, but the first time Russian Exit Control did give her a slight hassle with the name difference, but that was quickly cleared up.  

 

I tend to agree with you regarding perfectionism, but I have come to the same conclusion as my wife that it is simply not worth the bureaucratic hassle.