I'm asking on behalf of my wife, who is a duel American Canadian citizen (I'm just a canadain citizen and we both live in Canada). We got married on May 19 of this year and now she is wanting to change over her American passport to my last name. We mailed out the application with everything last week so now I'm just wanting to know a few things that we didn't mess anything up.
My first question is what exactly shows on the application for american passport that she is wanting to change her last name to mine? We included our marriage certificate with the application but her name on the marriage certificate is in her maiden name (as far as I know, marriage certificates usually have the maiden name on them). She filled out the DS82 form as if her name was already changed over to mine, putting down my last name as hers. She indicated on line 11 that her last name is different by marriage then on her old passport (which was included in the mail) I'm just hoping that they'll know to use mine as indicated when she filled it out, and it wasn't suppose to show the name change on the marriage certificate for proof (marriage certificate just proves we're married). But if that's the only document they ask for then no worries right?
My next question is if she forgot to put down my last name on line 9 of DS82 will that be an issue for them? Again my last name is used on all the other name lines.
Then my last question is we sent in a US money order issued from a bank. They said that your name and birthday had to be printed on the money order somehow. Since we weren't sure of this part and didn't want to deface the money order out of fear of voiding it, we were going to attach a separate note with that bit of info but alas she forgot to include it with everything when it was mailed out. Think that will be an issue for them? Her name and birthday are already on the application so just hoping that a small “mistake” like that won't reject the application.
My first question is what exactly shows on the application for american passport that she is wanting to change her last name to mine? We included our marriage certificate with the application but her name on the marriage certificate is in her maiden name (as far as I know, marriage certificates usually have the maiden name on them). She filled out the DS82 form as if her name was already changed over to mine, putting down my last name as hers. She indicated on line 11 that her last name is different by marriage then on her old passport (which was included in the mail) I'm just hoping that they'll know to use mine as indicated when she filled it out, and it wasn't suppose to show the name change on the marriage certificate for proof (marriage certificate just proves we're married). But if that's the only document they ask for then no worries right?
My next question is if she forgot to put down my last name on line 9 of DS82 will that be an issue for them? Again my last name is used on all the other name lines.
Then my last question is we sent in a US money order issued from a bank. They said that your name and birthday had to be printed on the money order somehow. Since we weren't sure of this part and didn't want to deface the money order out of fear of voiding it, we were going to attach a separate note with that bit of info but alas she forgot to include it with everything when it was mailed out. Think that will be an issue for them? Her name and birthday are already on the application so just hoping that a small “mistake” like that won't reject the application.
