Wife's passport

[visaveteran1 33]

My fiancee seems to believe she needs to get a new international passport with her married name on it before we apply for her visa. I think this is not important for getting her I-130 processed. Who's right?

[pushbrk 13,643]

My fiancee seems to believe she needs to get a new international passport with her married name on it before we apply for her visa. I think this is not important for getting her I-130 processed. Who's right?

She needs a new passport with married name before the visa is issued. It goes in the passport.

[payxibka 10,048]

My fiancee seems to believe she needs to get a new international passport with her married name on it before we apply for her visa. I think this is not important for getting her I-130 processed. Who's right?

Is she your fiancee or your WIFE?

[YuAndDan 153]

My fiancee seems to believe she needs to get a new international passport with her married name on it before we apply for her visa. I think this is not important for getting her I-130 processed. Who's right?

She needs a new passport with married name before the visa is issued. It goes in the passport.

pushbrk: huh?

If she is your fiancee, her passport will be in maiden name, as well as the visa.

Even after marriage in the USA the passport can still be in maiden name, and travel fine with it well after mariage.

This is discussed many times.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...c=88489&hl=

[YuAndDan 153]

My fiancee seems to believe she needs to get a new international passport with her married name on it before we apply for her visa. I think this is not important for getting her I-130 processed. Who's right?

She needs a new passport with married name before the visa is issued. It goes in the passport.

Maybe I was reading something else... Yes the passport should have whatever name, is after marriage, if name change was a part of the marriage process. Some countries don't change names like China, so passport would still be in maiden name.

[payxibka 10,048]

Putting aside what her current legal name is ... Typically it is sooooooo much easier to get the passport changed and/or corrected (maybe even cheaper) while she is still in her home country, than to try to do it from abroad.....

[pushbrk 13,643]

My fiancee seems to believe she needs to get a new international passport with her married name on it before we apply for her visa. I think this is not important for getting her I-130 processed. Who's right?

She needs a new passport with married name before the visa is issued. It goes in the passport.

Maybe I was reading something else... Yes the passport should have whatever name, is after marriage, if name change was a part of the marriage process. Some countries don't change names like China, so passport would still be in maiden name.

As I recall, the name changes at marriage in Russia, so the visa is issued in the married name. Names in passport and on visas must match.

I took the OP at his word that since he posted in the CR/IR forum and indicated DCF that his fiance would be his wife before the problem posed would be dealt with.

My wife's name never changed and won't so no passport name issues now or later.

Edited September 20, 2007 by pushbrk

[visaveteran1 33]

My fiancee seems to believe she needs to get a new international passport with her married name on it before we apply for her visa. I think this is not important for getting her I-130 processed. Who's right?

She needs a new passport with married name before the visa is issued. It goes in the passport.

pushbrk: huh?

If she is your fiancee, her passport will be in maiden name, as well as the visa.

Even after marriage in the USA the passport can still be in maiden name, and travel fine with it well after mariage.

This is discussed many times.

I am going to marry her in Russia. Then I'll file the I-130 petition at the Moscow consulate which I have already gotten the ok to do. . Filing the I-130 does not seem to require passport copies...so I am thinking after we file the I-130 there will be time for her to get a new passport before she actually gets to the interview phase. Does this all sound correct?

I only have 30 days in Russia to get married in Siberia and go to Moscow to file. My fiancee says we can get married in about 10 days...so I am hoping to get the petition filed before I must come back to the USA. I am thinking she will have several months to get her new passport before she needs to go for the interview. She says it will take about one and a half months to get a new passport.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...c=88489&hl=

[payxibka 10,048]

Passport needs to be corrected/changed before the visa can be issued... will not prevent you from filing the petition.

[Silver358 0]

As I understand it, problems may come AFTER marriage when citizens RETURN to Russia -- if they don't have the same name on their passport and greencard.

See:

"My wife is from St. Petersburg, Russia... She came here on fiancee visa, we married, she recently received Green Card. In mid April, she traveled to St. Pete to visit her family, last week May 15, she went to airport to come home here in Michigan. At the airport they would not let her take her flight to come back to the U.S.... She has a valid Russian Foreigner Passport due to expire this coming November....She also has a valid Russian Internal Passport.... and a valid U.S. Perminant Resident Card also known as Green Card and our U.S. Marriage Certificate with her. Her Russian Passports do not have her new Married Name in them... and it looks like it could take many months to get her name changed in these passports......What is going on ??? Why can she not come back home to be with her husband... This is not acceptable and should not be happening..........Can anyone shed some light on this or steer me somewhere that I can get some help for this matter... We do not know where to turn for help.... Please anyone..... ??? "

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...=14934&st=0

Also See:

"Irina and I just came back from Russia, flying Aeroflot. The woman who checked her passport was Russian (Aeroflot), young, friendly, and going-by-the-book. She held up the passport (maiden name), pointed to the green card (married name), and asked Irina if she had the special page with the Consulate endorsement authorizing her to use her married name. Irina had the endorsement, so no problem. I think these airline employees take their work very seriously, every day, not just every other day."

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