Brian si Alina

Many countries have these "requirements", however, unless she plans to go back to Romania before she becomes a US Citizen, these so called requirements can be ignored. She is only subject to Romanian law while she is in Romania, and only then, to the extent the requirements apply to Romanian citizens. What you can do is report your marriage to the Romanian Consulate, and obtain a document called an "Affidavit of One and The Same Person" to make your marriage license, Green Cared and all Romanian documents (and passport) relate so there is less confusion. See if the Consulate is willing to do it that way. You will probably have to go to the consulate than\t services your area, and if you don't their answer, try another consulate.

We had the same problem with the Philippines consulate for Americanizing the wife's first name on her Green Card.

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It's true, most of the people we talk to (romanian K1's) have no intention of registering their marriage anytime soon. Our concern about adhering to the "requirements" is that she is in no rush to become a USC, hopes to keep her RO passport (meaning renewing in the future), to register any possible children as RO citizens (EU passport!), and yes, she intends to travel regularly back to Romania. Additionally, if she lost her passport now, she not be able to get a replacement. We have no intention of burning that bridge if one day we might choose to live in Europe as well. Most or all of these actions require that we are properly registered. I think we witnessed the consequences at the consulate the other day, people spending days(!) at the consulate trying to get adult children registered as citizens, or changing a passport to a married name etc. So we figure work on it while we have the time (her passport has years before it expires, so no immediate rush).

Thanks very much for your suggestion about one and the same- that at least resolves some questions we had about RO accepting a US name change (if they wouldn't accept our marriage certificate, then we would have no way to change her name in RO, which makes traveling with children difficult). It was my original understanding that a US name change (court order) was not accepted in other countries, but reading through the forums and with the type of filing you are suggesting I guess I was wrong. I'm curious though, who is eligible for a name change, as I read elsewhere in the forums it's only possible after having a greencard. RO also has a process to accept foreign judgements, so that also may be a route.

I'm probably going to start a new thread on our situation...

Hi,

I'm wondering what the outcome of this story is. We are in a situation with the Romanian consulate in NY- she changed her family name to be her middle name, and my family name as her family name. We tried to register our marriage in Romania as is required within 6 months, and they wouldn't accept our marriage certificate as valid because you are not allowed to use/move your family name as a middle name after the marriage.

Did you register your marriage? Were you able to renew your passport just with the greencard? Or, as the thread implies, was your name considered not to be changed by the marriage certificate? Basically, how did you resolve that they would not accept your changed first name?

Many thanks for any thoughts

I totally agree! Very nice, thanks!

Hi All. End of the January filers?

1/20/11-Submitted to Fedex

1/24/11-arrived

1/27/11-email notification re-routed to VSC

Best to all.