Last Name Change after filing I 485 and I 130

[dg204]

Good morning valued members!

My wife and I have a pending case. We filed in January 2018 and I am the beneficiary doing an I-485. She just changed her last name to mine and my I485 is ready to be scheduled for interview.
My questions are: Do we have to contact USCIS to inform them? What's the best way to handle this situation since her original last name is on all the paper work we sent with the petition ?

[seattle2903]

Good morning valued members!

My wife and I have a pending case. We filed in January 2018 and I am the beneficiary doing an I-485. She just changed her last name to mine and my I485 is ready to be scheduled for interview.
My questions are: Do we have to contact USCIS to inform them? What's the best way to handle this situation since her original last name is on all the paper work we sent with the petition ?

Assuming you are filing for a marriage-based AoS, it would have been easier to file directly with her married name. You can now contact USCIS and inform them about the name change OR you can wait until the interview and ask the IO to update her name so that the Green Card matches her married name.

[dg204]

Assuming you are filing for a marriage-based AoS, it would have been easier to file directly with her married name. You can now contact USCIS and inform them about the name change OR you can wait until the interview and ask the IO to update her name so that the Green Card matches her married name.

No i'm the beneficiary. She is a citizen.

[Houston2016]

No worries, just inform IO during interview and just incase bring updated I-864 with all supporting documents (pay stub and letter of employment, you didn't file taxes while waiting for interview, so new W-2 and IRS transcripts not available yet),
As well as her new SS card and new DL, if she has a passport that would not hurt too.

p.s. that actually good, more to the evidences of bonafide marriage.

[dg204]

No worries, just inform IO during interview and just incase bring updated I-864 with all supporting documents (pay stub and letter of employment, you didn't file taxes while waiting for interview, so new W-2 and IRS transcripts not available yet),
As well as her new SS card and new DL, if she has a passport that would not hurt too.

p.s. that actually good, more to the evidences of bonafide marriage.

Thank you!