Maiden name or Married name?

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JulianQ84

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I need help understanding why all of my wife's documents came back under her maiden name. I'm a US citizen and a legitimate marriage license was submitted to the law firm that assisted us with her case. We were expecting to receive everything under her married name. Is this normal? Do all green cards come with their maiden names? If not, then who's fault is it. We were never asked which name we wanted everything to be in. I paid a nice amount of $$ for these services. Expecting one thing and we got something else. Please help....


Thanks,

Julian
 
What name did she put on her application? She should have put her legal name at that time on the application (and since she applied when she was already married, if she changed her name as part of the marriage, then her legal name at that time was her new name, so she must have put that name on her application).
 
She put what she was told to put. Which in this case she was told to put her maiden name even though she was married. To some extent I do feel at fault for my ignorance and not asking. But in the other hand i feel I'm not the expert. Were we ever asked which name we wanted to appear no? Which application was the one that was in charge of the name?

By the way thanks for feedback, I don't want to sound rude but I want to know what I'm talking about before I talk to the firm that assisted us with her case.
 
If your marriage certificate changed her name to your last name then she could have filled all the forms with her married name and you would receive the documents with her married name. Basically what you out in application (as long as it's legal) is what you get. There's no change of name application. Marriage is the one it's changing it legally.
 
At this point you can file I-90 to replace her green card, and select reason "2e" (if it is a non-conditional green card), or "3e" (if it is a conditional green card). The instructions say that these options can be used if the card has incorrect data and the error was not caused by USCIS (which is true in this case). You would have to pay the fee because it wasn't USCIS's error.
 
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