Name change after citizenship

[Tunisian_tunisia 13]

Anyone here from Tunisia ? I recently changed my name after I got my citizenship, I was wondering how will that affect my entry and exit to tunisia since my new name doesn’t match my name back my country? Customs in tunisia have this habit of completely dismissing your foreign passport and asking for your father name to pull up your information on their Tunisian system. Im

afraid If they type my new name and they don’t get a match they will not allow me to exit the country or get me in trouble. Any thoughts on this ? 

[JeanneAdil 6,491]

any trouble in Tunis because customs does not want to let u out,  call the US embassy as u r now a US citizen

and always keep a copy of the US passport  and NOTE they cant take it from u / they can look at in /  look in their system/  take u to customs for baggage check

but they can't keep u from leaving the country unless u have a warrant out for your arrest in Tunisia 

and i would think since u had to provide a clean criminal report,  that won't be an issue

[Chancy 6,241]

*** Moved from General Immigration-Related Discussion to the MENA regional forum -- topic is about requirement for entry into Tunisia ***

 

[Tunisian_tunisia 13]

On 12/7/2022 at 1:23 PM, JeanneAdil said:

any trouble in Tunis because customs does not want to let u out,  call the US embassy as u r now a US citizen

and always keep a copy of the US passport  and NOTE they cant take it from u / they can look at in /  look in their system/  take u to customs for baggage check

but they can't keep u from leaving the country unless u have a warrant out for your arrest in Tunisia 

and i would think since u had to provide a clean criminal report,  that won't be an issue

But how will I explain the name change ? My name change happened through divorce which is enough to change my name in the US. My biggest concern is that they get me in trouble on my out of the country and deny me exit until they figure it out which usually takes a long time … any thoughts?

[JeanneAdil 6,491]

3 hours ago, Tunisian_tunisia said:

But how will I explain the name change ? My name change happened through divorce which is enough to change my name in the US. My biggest concern is that they get me in trouble on my out of the country and deny me exit until they figure it out which usually takes a long time … any thoughts?

you can u changed it according to US and now u  r US citizen so u follow our laws

take the phone # of US embassy with u and call them if u have trouble 

make sure u have a copy of the profile page of US passport

[bzbee 93]

On 12/16/2022 at 1:08 PM, Tunisian_tunisia said:

But how will I explain the name change ? My name change happened through divorce which is enough to change my name in the US. My biggest concern is that they get me in trouble on my out of the country and deny me exit until they figure it out which usually takes a long time … any thoughts?

How did you change your name? If you did it during naturalization, you should have received the name change petition or order signed by the judge or clerk showing your old name & new name. It is a legal document and proof that you changed your name. 

 

If you did it after, you still would have filed some legal paperwork for the name change and would have received a court order or something similar. Take that as proof.

[Tunisian_tunisia 13]

On 2/10/2023 at 1:13 PM, bzbee said:

How did you change your name? If you did it during naturalization, you should have received the name change petition or order signed by the judge or clerk showing your old name & new name. It is a legal document and proof that you changed your name. 

 

If you did it after, you still would have filed some legal paperwork for the name change and would have received a court order or something similar. Take that as proof.

I did it through divorce. It is stated in the divorce document but it kind of hard to see.  but I don’t have a separate document stating that I changed my name.

[Tunisian_tunisia 13]

On 12/7/2022 at 1:23 PM, JeanneAdil said:

any trouble in Tunis because customs does not want to let u out,  call the US embassy as u r now a US citizen

and always keep a copy of the US passport  and NOTE they cant take it from u / they can look at in /  look in their system/  take u to customs for baggage check

but they can't keep u from leaving the country unless u have a warrant out for your arrest in Tunisia 

and i would think since u had to provide a clean criminal report,  that won't be an issue

I don’t have any warrants. I’m just thinking they would stop from leaving the country if my name won’t match the records in their system. Tunisian customs tend to be super difficult to deal with. I don’t want any trouble especially that I have business in the US and can’t be staying in tunisia for something like this

[JeanneAdil 6,491]

copy profile page of your US passport to keep with u

take a copy of your naturalization paper (not original ) to show name change 

 

and have # of US embassy handy

as a US citizen the embassy will help u if any trouble