QUESTION
How to get a court order with the name change
Asked on Nov 04th, 2015 on Immigration - Arizona
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When I married my husband in Belgium, I didn't change my last name. But here in the US, at the green card interview I just had 2 weeks ago, I was asked if I want to change it and I approved, without thinking of the consequences. Now calling my consulate, to ask how to change my passport, they told me I have to do the name change in my country, they can't do it here because they don't have a court order saying about the name change, and if I leave the US with a passport on a different name than the one on the Green card, they might not let me get back in the US. Can I get a court order saying I have changed my name, so I can use it at my consulate for the passport change? What can I do? Because I am not planning to go back to my country so soon, but I have to go to Europe next year... Thank you!
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You cannot get your court order. For just about every jurisdiciton in US, if your marraige certificate changed your name to married name. That is a valid name change. You can file a petition to change your name in a court of local jurisdiciton and get the court order this way but it will not be as part of the adjustment of status process.
Answered on Nov 13th, 2015 at 5:52 AM