Question concerning passport name change!

[Foxblood 2]

I have a question concerning passport name change.

I came to US and married my husband (US citizen) last year. So my green card shows my name as "previous name + husband's last name" while in my passport, it still shows as my previous name.

I will go to China for a visit soon, but I'm afraid I will have trouble coming back to USA. Can you please confirm IF I need to go to the embassy to have the new name remarked/ registered on my passport, OR I can just use Green card + Marriage Certificate to approve my identity.

[Ryan H 3,813]

You don't need to have your passport changed. Green card alone is all you need for CBP.

[Foxblood 2]

You don't need to have your passport changed. Green card alone is all you need for CBP

Thank you very much for the information

[ama537621 3]

No worries,

My wife and I just returned to the states after a 10 month stay in China, We showed them her Chinese passport, Reentry permit and her GC, no trouble at all,. For a normal trip you do not even need the reentry permit we did that due to the length of stay exceeding 6 month's.

If you are worried take a copy of the your marriage license with you. That will show you changing your name.

[DAAG 1]

my wife came to USA from Philippines married me got 2 year green card and now have 1 year extension while were waiting for her ten year green card. her moms in bad health she wants to go to visit her mom soon, and just realized her Philippine passport will expire in a few months. there's a consulate outreach thing at a Philippine festival in Tampa a short drive away, next week. managed to get an appointment to renew her passport, but they tell us we have to report our marriage to a different Consulate office 1500 miles away because we lived in Kansas when we got married, and reams of paperwork are needed to just get them to acknowledge we're married, including 4 plus coppies of my passport which already expired, two originals, which is all we have, and 2 copies of our marriage certificate which doesn't state she changed her name anyway, and thy say we had to do that within two years of our marriage which was 3 years ago, and give good reason why were late reporting something we had no idea we had to report to people we had no idea were concerned with our marriage and who are now 5 stats away, and give them all the original copies of our marriage certificate and have none left for our selves, and then the place 50 miles away which will actually renew the passport will have to be informed by the other office 1500 miles away that we are married instead of us giving them proof right here at home when we go to get it renewed, in a few days, and without doing all that which they admit is impossible to accomplish in time, they say they can only renew it in her maiden name. I hate to generate new documents in her previous name to please the Philippine consulate when were trying to keep everything matching for USCIS in her current name. Plus I'm not even sure making documents in her previous name is legal, now that she's married causing her last name to change to mine. many people say all she needs is her green card to travel. maybe that's true, I don't know but she doesn't want to burn any bridges behind her that may restrict her ability to own land in the Philippines, by making an wrong step now while working toward American citizenship, while still retaining her Philippine citizenship, as we already have land in the Philippines, so we want to make sure things are ok with the Philippines too. Does anyone have any idea if there's a streamlined solution to this dilemma stretching across half the United States, and doing paperwork both near and far to accomplish only one document which it seems logical that only one jurisdiction could handle, if only they talked to each other, and wanted to streamline things. It seems so weird, considering they both probably have all the same facilities available to them, and proof of marriage should look the same in either place, one would think.