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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
S/O SSN Question -- Changing name while overseas?
I'm stationed in the UK, and my fiance and I are getting married in April. I'm still undecided on whether or not I want to change my name. In my job (military), I HAVE to use my legal name as my professional name, and I've built up a lot of professional recognition on my maiden name. I'm not opposed to hyphenating though.
I know that in the US you have to go to the Social Security office to start the name-change process, then you change your DL, passports, etc. If I'm overseas, there is no Social Security office to go to....is there another way I can start the name change process from overseas? Or do I have to wait until the next time I'm in the states?
Re: S/O SSN Question -- Changing name while overseas?
We've been married a year and I still haven't changed my name. I never really looked into what I would need to do to change my name when we lived in Zurich. Mainly because I wasn't in the mood to change everything at that time. Also I had visa applications ending for the the US and Switzerland. Didn't want the hassle of changing my name on those forms and the delay that came with it.
Now that we are back I still haven't gone to do it. I'm going to hyphenate so at the moment I don't feel much pressure to change. For now my plan is to wait till summer. I'll probably keep pushing it off.
**I went on the US Embassy Bern website and tried to find something just now. All I can find is changing your name on your passport. Can't find anything about a legal name change. Maybe check your local embassy website see if you find anything.
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I did the same thing. It was quite straightforward on the US side of things. I updated my US DL when I went home for a visit. More complicated is our UK visa, which I still have in my maiden name, but that doesn't cause any problems.
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I got married in Germany, and there's a long story behind what actually happened with my name due to an unintentionally confusing email from the US embassy, but what should have happened was this:
1. Get married in Germany (here a civil ceremony is required, the church ceremony is optional). When asked before the civil ceremony whether I would be changing my name, I should have said yes, then it would have been duly noted on the papers.
2. Take a notarized copy of the marriage certificate documenting the name change and send it in to the embassy along with the passport papers and social security papers.
3. They send you a new passport and SS card.
If you're getting married in the UK, then you get your name changed however people do it in the UK when they get married (here in Germany it's noted on the marriage certificate and that's the official documentation of the change). Then send a notarized copy to whatever authority is responsible for getting you a new passport and SS card (is the embassy for military personnel?).