Okay, here is what I plan on doing - I need some advice about DCF and my Passport/Indefinite Remain to Leave.

My current passport has my old married name on it - lets just say Smith.

My indifiinte remain to leave paperwork is a page IN my passport with the name Smith.

Once I am remarried to my hubby to be - say Mr Jones, I will need to do one of the following:

Continue using Smith until we are situated in America OR

Use Jones, get my passport updated, and my social security card updated, but wait on the indefinite leave to remain stamp - the processing times for changing the name on this is 14 weeks.

If I choose to take hubby to be's name, and not get my indefinite remain to leave stamp updated, will that affect me filing for the DCF because of the name differences? I will be enclosing my marriage/divorce documents so hopefully they can put two and two together?

Do they just update the name on the current passport?

Sorry for so many questions, just trying to get everything covered.

My situation is not the same as yours as I have never been married changed my name but I will still share my info. I have decided to keep my maiden name until we are back in the U.S. When we are there, I will start the process.

The main reason I decided to do this is to avoid having to get a new passport, social security card, ect. until I am back home. For me, it was less confusing.

I do not think having different names will cause any issues or alarms to go off when you DCF. There is no law that you must take your husband's name and many women choose not to do so now-a-days.

I have no info to share on your situatuation with residency in the U.K. Can you wait and change your name with the U.K when you are back in the U.S. and no longer dealing with all of this?

Lauren

Thank you for your response.

I intend on waiting until I am in the USA to change my name. This upsets my fiancee, but I keep reminding him that it is ONLY temporary.

It will be alot less stress and hassle, and since I need a new social security card with my CURRENT name on it sorting out before I file my taxes for the past 3+ years, I don't want to confuse the matter even further.

I use my married name in the UK but my maiden name is still on my passport, my driver's license in Texas, and my tax returns. Basically, that is the name the US government knows me by, and that is the name I used on all of the visa application paperwork. I figure if I want to change my name in the US, it will be easier once we're back there. I have no idea how to go about using my married name in the US.

I have no interest in returning to the UK so I don't care if my paperwork from there shows my married name. I plan to let my resident visa in the UK expire but if by some very intricate and so far not very plausible set of circumstances we decide to return to the UK, I will just reapply for a resident visa in the UK.

Thanks - BTW, I am homesick, too

Remind the Mister that you can be called any name you like, regarless of your documents. If you want to be known socially as Missus after your ceremony, do so.
I have never changed my surname (too old to remember a new one at this stage) and if never impacted my husband's case in the least; we never even considered it could be a factor!

I could be really funny with him and tell him that I wish to keep my title as Dr and refuse to change it to Mrs LOL