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Thank you very much! We were just scared that she might not be able to use it since she got different names. I appreciate your response!

As long as we can still use her passport with her maiden name on it to travel then that's enough for us. Thank you!

My apologies. My wife got here last year thru K1 visa. She got her 2 year green card last year as well. We got our marriage certificate in Pennsylvania. We have no problem using our self-uniting marriage certificate elsewhere, it's only in the Philippines I think that they don't really recognize it as a marriage cert which I was unaware. I'm guessing a marriage certificate would be sufficient proof to link my spouse's name when travelling outside the country?

I'm guessing that's the same thing. We only have a marriage certificate stamped and sealed by a county clerk when we went to get it.

My wife and I got married through a self-uniting marriage. When I sent our Report of Marriage to the consulate to pre-assess the documents, they unfortunately said that the consulate does not acknowledge self-uniting marriage. I didn't know that, but I understand. My wife wanted to update her PH passport to have her married name on it, so that it matches all her IDs, but one requirement to update her passport is the Report of Marriage which we unfortunely cannot do. My question now is, would she still be able to travel outside the US and back using her PH passport with her maiden name on it? Also since there's no way to update/renew her ph passport, is the only thing to do now to get her married name on her passport is to get naturalized as a US citizen and get a US passport with her married name on it? Thank you.