name change and passport.

[aloevera]

The naturalization ceremony with name change doesn't have to physically be in a court; USCIS will file name change papers with the court on your behalf, and then they can hold the ceremony outside the court if a judge is there to oversee it.

Jack,

I understand that I am going to have my new name after ceremony. My ceremony probably is going to be in Los Angeles Convention Center. It is not a court. So I thing I will receive in the ceremony the paper with the name change from the court and the naturalization certificate

But If after the ceremony I need to provide a certified copy of name change, could I get it in every court??. I am not sure if the naturalization certificate has both the new and old name and if this is valid proof for different places. i.e credit cards..

Thanks Jack

 

[baikal3]

Jack,

I understand that I am going to have my new name after ceremony. My ceremony probably is going to be in Los Angeles Convention Center. It is not a court. So I thing I will receive in the ceremony the paper with the name change from the court and the naturalization certificate

But If after the ceremony I need to provide a certified copy of name change, could I get it in every court??. I am not sure if the naturalization certificate has both the new and old name and if this is valid proof for different places. i.e credit cards..

Thanks Jack

The naturalization certificate will only have your new name. At the oath ceremony (regardless of where it is held, even if it is on the moon), you will ALSO be given an official document, with a court's seal, certifying the name change and showing both the old and the new name. The document will also specify which court exactly approved the name change.
That document serves as an official court certified order regarding your name change. If you want another certified copy of such an order (but why in the world would you???), you can get it ONLY from the court that approved the name change.

 

[aloevera]

The naturalization certificate will only have your new name. At the oath ceremony (regardless of where it is held, even if it is on the moon), you will ALSO be given an official document, with a court's seal, certifying the name change and showing both the old and the new name. The document will also specify which court exactly approved the name change.
That document serves as an official court certified order regarding your name change. If you want another certified copy of such an order (but why in the world would you???), you can get it ONLY from the court that approved the name change.

Baikal,

Thanks for your answer.

-First of all, I was asking about certified copies due to I read in other post that if you need to update your new name in credit cards companies,... they can ask you for certified copies. I don´t know exactly because I didn´t do it yet.

- Second, my wife is working in a bank and told me that a lot of people went to the branch in order to update name change. She checked naturalization certificates and HAD BOTH NAMES. We are living in California. Maybe, they are putting both names here. I will tell you after ceremony.

 

[Jackolantern]

- Second, my wife is working in a bank and told me that a lot of people went to the branch in order to update name change. She checked naturalization certificates and HAD BOTH NAMES. We are living in California. Maybe, they are putting both names here. I will tell you after ceremony.

Perhaps she was looking at the name change court document, not the naturalization certificate. People would not normally show the naturalization certificate to the bank.