Changing Your Last Name to Your Maden Name During Naturalization
Hello everyone,
I am currently living in Florida and when I moved to the USA under a fiancee visa 6 years ago, my husband and I were uninformed and I changed my last names to his last name after marriage (in my culture we have two last names and is a tradition and law that no one can change their last names due to marriage). Anyhow, I have been sad about it for the past 6 years and now that I want to do the citizenship, I have thought that it would be nice to bring back my two last names because of my heritage, culture, beliefs, to have all passports with the same name, and because is my name and cannot identify with my husband's last name no matter how much I try to do so... My husband supports me and says that if it makes me happy to have my last names then by all means I should recover them. A man from the USCIS office in my city said that I should attach an addendum letter to the N400 form explaining in detail why I want my maiden name back because if not the officer will automatically assume that I am getting divorce. Should I do this letter for this purpose? Thanks!
Re: How to Change Your Name During Naturalization
If you want to change your name as part of the naturalization process, why wouldn't you? As you were told, if you do not do so it may trigger an investigation of the validity of your marriage.
If you prefer to later file a name change action through a Florida court, then it's not necessary -- but that will be an entirely separate legal proceeding.