I know this might sound silly, but my wife is finally here in America with me after a year long i-130 process (woot!). The problem is I have no idea what last name she needs to legally use. For anonymity I will say her last name is Johnson and mine is Williams.
When we got married we wrote her last name down as a hyphenated version of our names on the marriage cert. So, Johnson-Williams is the last name we wrote on the marriage cert that we used to start the i-130 process. However on her visa and her Social Security card it's just Johnson.
Our bet is that we use what's on her SSN as her legal last name, but what does that mean for our marriage cert? Do we need to get a new one?
Sorry if this is a dumb question I just want to be 100% sure I'm doing everything right and legally.
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