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Hey All,

My wife was naturalized back in October of 2024, at the time they agent asked my wife if she wanted to change her name and she said yes. Just for background, my wife never changed her name when we got married and since then she wanted to so she took this opportunity. The whole day was exciting, but now we are dealing with this name change issue and getting a driver's license.

What happened was that my wife's driver's license expired on October 1st, and because she didn't have her appointment until the week after, we had to let it expire. Fast-forward and we've been trying for a month to log on to her SSA account with no luck. It wants her to validate her identity with ID.Me, but every time we go through the process, it just says we cannot validate your ID but never gives you another option.

A friend of ours who was naturalized about two months before my wife, told us that she changed her name too and she just walked into the local SSA office without an appointment and got what she needed to get done. Since the online method wasn't working, we decided to try this that week, well not to my surprise we got there, there was a room full of people waiting and they had giant signs that said you cannot see someone if you don't schedule an appointment you cannot see someone. The security guard was kind enough to tell us that we had to go online to www.ssa.gov/ssn-app and fill out the application. Well the issue is that they asked in the application what documentation do you have proving your name change. They list : 1. Court Order 2. Amended Birth Cert 3. Marriage Cert

and there is no other option or option to select a naturalization certificate which is what she has.

Has anyone had this issue and if they did what did you do? The issue is we have to get the SSA updated card before we can get the DL renewed.

Hi. Hope it s okay for me to start this thread for January 2025 filers.

So my question is, I m trying to do CR1 visa for My Wife from Morocoo just I need to know what we need step-by-step and also what the paper works we need for both. Thank you.

Hello everyone, I am a US citizen applying for a green card for my French husband. We currently live together in Montreal.

While filling out the online 130 petition I have received a red alert on "Address where you lived together". I don't know how to fix this or move past it. We still live together so I put our current address. I left the "when did you live..." blank as we still live together but that doesn't seem to be the issue.

If anyone has any advice on why this is happening or any help I appreciate it! This is my first post so I hope I'm in the right place.

Thank you!

Hello All,

I, USC, living in Hong Kong with my Wife, Nationality (Philippines), both of us HK Permanent Residents. I have Mandatory Retirement Dec 31st, 2025, and a Job offer to relocate back to the USA with my current multi-national company with a start date of 1 Sept. 2025.

Filed I-130 in early Feb of 2024, VJ says latest approval estimate June 4, 2025. With NVC processing that makes the timing tight at best.

My wife has a valid B1 visa that expires Nov. 2025 and has traveled many times on her B1 with no issues.

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Opinions on what I should do? Possible thoughts:

1) Just wait and hope it all gets done on time.

2) Request to Expedite the I-130

3) Wait for I-130 approval and request Expedite at NVC stage

4) Have my wife apply for a B1 visa as a backstop in case spousal visa not approved in time

For option 4, I suppose we'd have to maintain a residence address of some form in Hong Kong along with living in the USA and she'd (We) would have to fly back to Hong Kong for the interview? I suppose we also risk her not getting approved for the B1 or if approved being denied entry on the false presumption that she'd adjust status in the USA (we wouldn't, of course). She has entered the USA twice since I applied for the I-130 for her with absolutely zip, zero questions or issues.

DCF is no longer an option as I-130 has been filed.

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Opinions/Suggestions/sage wisdom or even just kindly advising patience and faith are all welcome.

My start date might be flexible to push back if visa is not complete but can not under any circumstances be pushed into 2026

Thanks in advance.

Joe

Thanks in advance.