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@jeanieCZ when your fiancée added you to their card as an authorized user, did they use your last name prior to marriage or the one you were going to change to (or are now currently using) as the card holder name. example: your name before marriage was Jane Doe but their last name was Smith, did they put "Jane Doe" or "Jane Smith"? I am trying to do the same for my fiancée in Canada. Or rather, does anyone have insight into this... so we can, at a later date, connect the invisible credit to now "visible" credit once she gets an SSN and all that. I don't want to put her "maiden" last name only to have it not count, if that makes sense.

I'm literally at the beginning. I filed August 2022, it was accepted Sept 7, 2022. @Mike Eahh ok, now that I've read that, it makes sense.. well darn

So if I'm understanding this correctly, for the I-485 portion, I could do a legal name change near/at approval of the Visa, get married under our "new" last name and present my court decree, attach it with the filing and bring to interview along with everything else that is required? I could do it after the green card but just trying to make it less of a headache than it already is 😅

So I'm definitely not like most lol - I filed for the K1 Visa in August of this year. For background, I am the petitioner - Male, I filed for my beneficiary in Canada - female. Now for the odd-ball situation I'm in. My parents never married, they are still together (I believe they filed Domestic Partnership). I have my mother's last name and not my father's. I have been wanting to do a last name change to match that of my father's plus my wife-to-be wishes to have this last name also. Now, for the question you may not have the answer too. I, the male - should I initiate the court proceedings now to get a legal last name change or should I wait until after the K1 is approved, get married and do a name change and my wife would also have to do the same - essentially a not so "bang for a buck" idea haha. Really what I'm trying to figure out, is if I can do a last name change now and send the documents to USCIS as an "update" to my name. I am in California so I cannot put my father's last name on a marriage certificate because... California doesn't allow it cause I'm not "associated" even though my birth certificate says otherwise but hey! whatever, its the gov't lol. I wish I knew this sooner cause I would've updated it prior to filing... Is there possibly a way to reach out and find this information out from USCIS? I have tried googling but unfortunately I'm the minority here ... since I'm a guy... tl;dr - male petitioner wants to change last name but already filed K1, can I do court proceedings to change legal last name or should I wait? I don't want the K1 Visa to be null and void for something that I see as submitting as a simple update/supplement.

Guess I shall add here too, especially since I've been spectator for the better part of this year lol. I-129 F Sent - August 30, 2022 I-129 F Received - September 2, 2022 (NOA-1) (this is strange because USPS showed it delivered to the PO Box on Sept 3rd @ 6 am lol? But I'll take it!) I submitted payment via G-1450 form, charged September 6th I-129 F - Notice Date - September 7, 2022 (text/email sent to me, paper copy on the way)