Wife Renewed Vietnamese passport during visit

[martindart 0]

My wife renewed her Vietnamese passport while she is currently visiting family in Bien Hoa, Vietnam. She renewed it in her maiden name. Will she have any problems coming back in to USA? Her 2-year green card is in her married name along with her Washington State ID card. Any foreseeable problems when she returns May 31, 2009?

Thanks!!!

[chuckandkim 0]

My wife renewed her Vietnamese passport while she is currently visiting family in Bien Hoa, Vietnam. She renewed it in her maiden name. Will she have any problems coming back in to USA? Her 2-year green card is in her married name along with her Washington State ID card. Any foreseeable problems when she returns May 31, 2009?

Thanks!!!

Read this post, next to yours

[Anh map 2,098]

A question out of curiousity: would it have been difficult to renew in her married name? just thinking ahead a few years.

[martindart 0]

My wife renewed her Vietnamese passport while she is currently visiting family in Bien Hoa, Vietnam. She renewed it in her maiden name. Will she have any problems coming back in to USA? Her 2-year green card is in her married name along with her Washington State ID card. Any foreseeable problems when she returns May 31, 2009?

Thanks!!!

ChuckandKim, I did review the post before I posted my question here. That being said, I still have concerns as follows:

My wife “renewed” her passport in Vietnam and used her maiden name on the new and renewed passport unlike the (post next to mine) “This is not her legal name at the time of renewal.

The renewed passport Name NOW does not match her Green Card or her Washington State I.D. card.

Why did she choose her maiden name? Heaven only knows, perhaps cheaper? Perhaps the Vietnamese Government could have made it harder for those seeking to renew passports to Vietnamese citizens married to American Man living in USA Who knows?

This I do know,

She had no problems entering back into USA in 2008 using her old passport (then it had one year before it expired) in her maiden name, along with her Washington State ID card and her Green Card in her married last name.

Now, IS there a requirement or regulation stating: (I’m speculating here)

Upon the next expiration of one’s passport then the RENEWED passport MUST list the full and legal name of the person whom is renewing same passport?

In this case, her true and legal name is changed through marriage and because of the expiration of her passport she choose to have it done in Vietnam rather than we sending it to Washington D.C. where the Vietnamese Embassy is located and along with $100.00 USD they will renew it.

This is my concern as she enters the USA soon, “will we have a problem?”

Thanks Chuckand Kim or anyone who might have some thoughts on the matter

Don Nicely

"Anh map" I'll keep ya posted.. =-)

[map1map 3]

If she changed her name through marriage, then her legal name is the new name (yours, I presume).

Generally, her marriage to you here is not recognized/registered by Vietnamese authorities, probably unless you both let them know of the marriage and name change and requests the recognition of your marriage by the Vietnamese authorities, and the change in the name that resulted with this - i presume this could be done with the local Vietnamese embassy. Sometimes, getting a marriage recognized overseas is a painfully lengthy and expensive process, so she probably chose to renew it in her maiden name, given probably the time/financial constraints of her visit. If she entered before with her passport, I suppose there will be no problem at the border here, although the previous passport's number that followed her throughout the immigration file is not the same with the number of her new passport, correct? I don't see how the new passport as a legal document though...

[STL_HCMC 0]

martindart,

My wife just returned from her second trip home to Vietnam and she had no trouble returning through immigration at DFW with her passport in maiden name and green card in her married name. When she travels she carries a copy of our marriage certificate in case there are questions.

STL_HCMC