Legal name change after green card

[jeffkadrliktorr 99]

sorry if this in the wrong forum. also, this may have been answered already a bunch of times, but I couldn't

get a clear answer using the search feature.

I have a social security card, conditional green card and foreign passport.

My green card has my birth name on it. SSC and Passport have my birth name as well (with slight spelling error on both).

I was wondering. If I was to legally change my name (to include my husbands name). Would there be any downfalls of having different names

printed on my SSC, compared to my green card?

[Eric & Idalia 56]

I have the same question. Did you find any useful information?

[aaron2020 11,651]

The downside is that you will have to provide a copy of your marriage certificate to connect the two names since both names will be on it and state law allows a spouse to legally take the other spouse's last name.

The other problem is ignorance. Some people will not be able to see the connection between your unmarried last name and your spouse's last name based on the marriage certificate listing both. Overcoming this ignorance is impossible with some people.

[Eric & Idalia 56]

Maybe I should start a different post as our situation is different. We married in Mexico and just my birth name is shown in the marriage certificate.

Thanks for the info aaron2020.

[aaron2020 11,651]

Maybe I should start a different post as our situation is different. We married in Mexico and just my birth name is shown in the marriage certificate.

Thanks for the info aaron2020.

Let me clarify.

There are two names on the marriage certificate; you and your spouse. Your name is Maria Perez. Your spouse's name is Manuel Beltran.

Your green card has Maria Perez.

Your SS card has Maria Beltran.

How do you prove that the Maria Perez on the green card is the same person as the Maria Beltran on the SS card? The marriage certificate with the names Maria Perez and Manuel Beltran because state law allows a spouse to legally take the other spouse's last name. It's legal for her to take the name Maria Beltran and him to take the name Manuel Perez.

[Eric & Idalia 56]

Hi. I thought you were saying that USA marriage certificate have the single and married name of people.

Our Mexican marriage certificate of course has my name and my husband name. lol Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Well ok the thing is a little more complicated. My husband does not like his last name and does not want our kids to take it. So I thought that maybe he can change it. Maybe he can use his middle name as last name then I can use it and then our kids take the new last name. Yeah I know it sounds like a lot of work.

Then the other day I read that if our kids are born in USA we can give them any last name we want, so maybe my husband does not need to change his last name at all. We just use my husband's middle name as our kids' last name.

His last name is Loeser and he hates that people say Loser instead. Also he doesn't have a relationship with his father as he left them when they were babies. That's why I thought changing his last name would be good for him.

We know that he can take my last name and use that last name with our kids. The thing is that I am not pretty sure about it. While he was in Mexico and could not work due to his work permission in process. Family and friends didn't doubt on expressing their opinions about him being emasculated. He said he didn't mind their opinions, and I thought they were wrong because they didn't know about immigration processes. Mexico is tough if they caught people working without permission.

So basically I thought changing his last name would make him happier and also I like his middle name. But we already started the CR1 process for me to go to USA. That's why I when I saw jeffkadrliktorr's post about changing last name after getting the green card, it was interesting for me.