Few Questions on AOS Filing

[stevenw60 0]

Hi all, Wondering if anybody has done what we are doing for our AOS. My lady arrived in September and we are now legally married. We live in Virginia, and in Virginia marriage certificates have your legal name at the time of your marriage. Then using your marriage liscence you can change your name on various other documents (such as the Virginia ID card she just got). First question is this ID card enough for USCIS to consider it a legal name change?

also we have decided to go ahead and send off her passport to her consulate to get a new passport in her new name then file for AOS as soon as we get her new passport back with her new name. Should we have any issues in doing it this way?

THanks!

[Kez/JWolf 6]

Your marriage is enough for her to use her married name on all the paperwork for immigration.... you do not have to wait until you have all new ID to file for AOS.... she will get her EAD in her married name if that is the name she puts on the application form..... same with the Greencard it will be in whatever name she puts on the forms.....

Kez

[Krikit 1,164]

Your marriage is enough for her to use her married name on all the paperwork for immigration.... you do not have to wait until you have all new ID to file for AOS.... she will get her EAD in her married name if that is the name she puts on the application form..... same with the Greencard it will be in whatever name she puts on the forms.....

Kez

Ditto to the above.

also we have decided to go ahead and send off her passport to her consulate to get a new passport in her new name then file for AOS as soon as we get her new passport back with her new name. Should we have any issues in doing it this way?

THanks!

No need to wait for a new passport to file for AOS.

[Jasman0717 9]

We just changed Claudeth's name on the AOS and it was good enough for the USCIS. They issued her EAD in her married name.

[stevenw60 0]

Thanks guys. The thing is her country requires her to get a new passport within 30 days of marriage. Do you think it will cause any problems if we file now with the old passport then change to a new passport (with new passport number)?