Changing Last Names

[Arnold_and_Joan 0]

I just wanted to post and see if anyone ran into any problems with this. To make a long story short, my wife decided to change her middle name when we did our civil wedding. She changed it to her mother's maiden name. Just to clarify, in the Philippines the mother's maiden name is usually the child's middle name. When a woman gets married, they drop the mother's maiden name and use the father's last name as their new middle name - hope that's clear. My wife instead took her mother's last name to be her middle name now. Well, we changed her Philippine passport to try and reflect her married name now. When we picked up the passport, her middle name shows her father's instead of her mother's that she wanted. We complained but there's some Philppine law that they need to carry her father's last name instead. We argued that her marriage certificate shows her new middle name but they wouldn't oblige by US papers/customs.

Anyhow, my small concern is that all our paperwork for AOS shows her mother's name as her middle name. Would this pose a problem if her passport shows something different? The Phil consul finally agreed to create an affidavit saying that her passport and her work permit (only US document we had then) is one and the same person. Except of course the work permit only shows an initial for her middle name instead of spelling it out. So how strict is INS with proper ID names showing?

[john_and_marlene 162]

We filed AOS with Marlene's middle name as her mother's maiden name. The middle name was corrected to her father's surname at the AOS interview because of the Philippine rules. Just correct it at the interview.