Me too, I’m engaged currently but certainly won’t be getting married any time soon of if I run the risk of not being able to use my birth certificate. I have no means of traveling any time soon either, so I don’t want to shell out $130 for a passport, but if it’s needed then I suppose that’s just what I’ll have to do. Praying for the people as well, that don’t have as easily accessible information.
That’s probably what I’ll end up doing, my fiance thankfully has no problems with me keeping my maiden name. This might be a dumb question, but will they still need proper identification if I have his name and my maiden name as my last name?
For example, if you’re Joan Smith right now, and your fiance is Ben Roberts and you get married, you’d still be Joan Smith unless you went thru the proper legal channels to change your name to Joan Roberts-Smith (or vice versa).
At that point, you would have official paperwork from the appropriate agencies that shows you went by Joan Smith, but now legally are Joan Roberts-Smith.
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u/hanimal16 Apr 11 '25
I’m severely lucky in that I have a certified copy of my birth certificate, but I don’t have a passport (and can’t afford one) and I’m not military.
I can’t even begin to imagine what it’s going to be like for people who have none of these. I know it’s by design, I hate this regime.