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How can my husband legally change his name?

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Ok I have no idea where I could post this, so Mods please feel free to move. I asked in here because my husband got his green card through marriage in March. He wants to change his name and wasn't sure if anyone in here would know how to do that...I thought I had read somewhere at some time, that people could do that with citizenship maybe. He just wants to drop his first name and only use his middle name. I know this is not really immigration related, but like I said not sure if he has any option to do that with his immigration. Thanks for any assistance!! :)

02/21/99 Hubby entered with F1 student visa D/S

May 2002 He stopped attending school because he couldn't afford it any longer.

03?/2002 USC sibling I-130 petition

02/2009 Met hubby

08/2009 Sibling petition approved but ineligible to adjust status due to overstay

07/10 Married :)

11/22/10 [day 0]- mailed AOS packet!! should be there by noon 11/23/2010

12/3/10 [day 11]- received email/text notification of acceptance from USCIS

12/3/10 hubby surprised me with a trip to Los Angeles for my birthday...no problems :)

12/6/10 [day 14]- received hard copy NOA1 in mail

12/7/10 [day 15]- checks cashed...ouch

12/15/10 [day 23]- rec'd biometrics appt set for Dec. 28th at 10 am! :)

12/28/10 [day 36]- successful biometrics appt

01/27/11 [day 66]- rec'd interview appt set for March 10th at 10 am :)

02/25/11 [day 95]- rec'd EAD

03/10/11 [day 109]- Interview, Green card approved!! :)

Next Step: Removing conditions in 2 years.

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I think it depends on the state you live in. I know that here in NYC, in order for me to change my name (i.e. add my husband's last name to my maiden name) requires me to send a name change application to the civil court here, and wait for their approval. In addition - and this is the fun part - I have to make an announcement about my name change in a local newspaper once the civil court has approved it :)

Once the legalities of the name change have been taken care of, then your husband has to start running around different offices to get his documents changed to his new name - i.e. social security admin office, banks, insurance companies, consulate for a new passport, and order a new green card with the new name.

I found this website while doing research on this myself, and it has a section on Missouri as well:

http://www.namechangelaw.com/states/mo/missouri.htm

Adjustment of Status from F-1 to Legal Permanent Resident

02/11/2011 Married at Manhattan City Hall

03/03/2011 - Day 0 - AOS -package mailed to Chicago Lockbox

03/04/2011 - Day 1 - AOS -package signed for at USCIS

03/09/2011 - Day 6 - E-mail notification received for all petitions

03/10/2011 - Day 7 - Checks cashed

03/11/2011 - Day 8 - NOA 1 received for all 4 forms

03/21/2011 - Day 18 - Biometrics letter received, biometrics scheduled for 04/14/2011

03/31/2011 - Day 28 - Successful walk-in biometrics done

05/12/2011 - Day 70 - EAD Arrived, issued on 05/02

06/14/2011 - Day 103 - E-mail notice: Interview letter mailed, interview scheduled for July 20th

07/20/2011 - Day 139 - Interview at Federal Plaza USCIS location

07/22/2011 - Day 141 - E-mail approval notice received (Card production)

07/27/2011 - Day 146 - 2nd Card Production Email received

07/28/2011 - Day 147 - Post-Decision Activity Email from USCIS

08/04/2011 - Day 154 - Husband returns home from abroad; Welcome Letter and GC have arrived in the mail

("Resident since" date on the GC is 07/20/2011

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Anh map   2,098

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*Moved from Adjustment of Status forum to General Immigration forum*

Civil court now, or wait until Citizenship and can do it then.

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You can do it at citizenship or do it the civil way. My hubby filed in court to have his name legally changed, did not even have to go before a judge to do it, now we are waiting for his new green card (in his new name) to have everything else changed over. When he filed to renew his green card he sent all the paperwork along with a copy of the Court Order changing his name and his NOA-1 came in the new name. Will keep you updated if we have any problems.

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He can "use" his middle name instead of his first name without any paperwork.

Do you really think my name is Bob?

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

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Thanks everyone! He tries to do that, but he doesn't want anyone to know his first name or use it on any documents. So yes he goes by his middle name, but he wants it official. I told him that waiting until citizenship would be the easiest. Thanks y'all!

Belinda- yes please do keep me updated. Thanks!

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02/21/99 Hubby entered with F1 student visa D/S

May 2002 He stopped attending school because he couldn't afford it any longer.

03?/2002 USC sibling I-130 petition

02/2009 Met hubby

08/2009 Sibling petition approved but ineligible to adjust status due to overstay

07/10 Married :)

11/22/10 [day 0]- mailed AOS packet!! should be there by noon 11/23/2010

12/3/10 [day 11]- received email/text notification of acceptance from USCIS

12/3/10 hubby surprised me with a trip to Los Angeles for my birthday...no problems :)

12/6/10 [day 14]- received hard copy NOA1 in mail

12/7/10 [day 15]- checks cashed...ouch

12/15/10 [day 23]- rec'd biometrics appt set for Dec. 28th at 10 am! :)

12/28/10 [day 36]- successful biometrics appt

01/27/11 [day 66]- rec'd interview appt set for March 10th at 10 am :)

02/25/11 [day 95]- rec'd EAD

03/10/11 [day 109]- Interview, Green card approved!! :)

Next Step: Removing conditions in 2 years.

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