Name Change with USCIS

[heymrdddj 0]

Welcome anyone to answer but I prefer answers from those who had changed their names with USCIS before.

Here are my questions:

1) I assume that they will give you a Name Change Certificate during oath ceremony. Correct?

the reason i'm asking is because I've heard people complaining they didn't receive anything but the naturalization cert. at the ceremony.

2) What do i have to do after i legally changed my name? I mean like besides going to to DMV and get a new license with my new name. Documentary stuffs.

3) How to deal with the stuffs that i have with my old name. IE. My high school diploma? college diploma? and all the mumble jumbo !

Thanks

[nickbits 43]

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Edited September 10, 2011 by nickbits

[Udella&Wiz 325]

Welcome anyone to answer but I prefer answers from those who had changed their names with USCIS before.

Here are my questions:

1) I assume that they will give you a Name Change Certificate during oath ceremony. Correct?

the reason i'm asking is because I've heard people complaining they didn't receive anything but the naturalization cert. at the ceremony.

2) What do i have to do after i legally changed my name? I mean like besides going to to DMV and get a new license with my new name. Documentary stuffs.

3) How to deal with the stuffs that i have with my old name. IE. My high school diploma? college diploma? and all the mumble jumbo !

Thanks

#3 - you don't do anything - that was your name back when you achieved those, no one is going to change your high school diploma (I mean who cares if you've moved on to college anyway...high school diploma is really not needed/used once you have a college diploma, high school success is implied).

#2 - start with Social Security Office, DMV, your employer, get the US passport in the new name etc... Any of your creditors, banks etc need to have the name change as well. Anyone who uses your current name needs to update it.

No idea about #1, sorry

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

At the interview the I.O. will fill out the name change document on the computer and print it out 3 times. You will sign those in his presence with your new name.

Once approved and signed by the court, one original remains with USCIS, the second one stays with the County Registrar's office, and the third one will be stapled to your Certificate of Naturalization which you will receive at the end of The Oath Ceremony.

You will photocopy and/or scan both documents, then staple them back together. You will then apply for a passport book and assuming your are smart a passport card as well in your new name at which time you will hand over both documents, stapled together. One you have your first passport (usually the book), you will go to the SSA office and apply for a new SSN card in your new name. Thereafter ou will get a new driver's license in your new name. You will have your bank account(s) changed to your new name, and you will have to mail a copy of the name change document to your credit card companies in order to receive new cards in your new name. All these things you will do with your passport card, not the CoN which goes into the safest place you have access to, hopefully forever.

I have done all of that myself.

Your school records and other earlier documents won't change, neither will the name on your birth certificate. Basically, it's no different from someone who takes on the name of their spouse after marriage.

Piece of cake.

Edited September 10, 2011 by Just Bob