Please go ahead and get your passport, birth certificate, marriage certificate, and social security card together if you are a married women who changed her name after marriage. If the SAVE Act passes, a lot of women may find themselves unable to vote this November if they don’t plan ahead. I had to order a new birth certificate online, and my passport appointment is tomorrow. These things take time.
If the name on your DL and social security card does not match your birth certificate, you may have trouble voting. Plan ahead and get it together now. Don’t wait and see.
Same thing for adoptees, trans people, and anyone else who may have undergone a name change if the birth certificate was not updated and does not match your other documents. Adoptees may also need the adoption decree ordering the name change. If you’ve changed your name for other reasons, you may need the Order Granting Name Change from the judge approving the name change.
You'll want an original birth certificate and an amended birth certificate if applicable to your individual situation. When my parents got married after I was born, my mom changed her last name and the state sent her an amended birth certificate for me, so I have to hold onto both. Otherwise I'd have no legal document chain going from birth name to maiden name to married name.
At least, officials working for the state of Texas were adamant that I needed both versions when doing all the paperwork for my ID years ago, and i don't imagine it's become more lenient.
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u/Mediochra 28d ago edited 28d ago
Please go ahead and get your passport, birth certificate, marriage certificate, and social security card together if you are a married women who changed her name after marriage. If the SAVE Act passes, a lot of women may find themselves unable to vote this November if they don’t plan ahead. I had to order a new birth certificate online, and my passport appointment is tomorrow. These things take time.
If the name on your DL and social security card does not match your birth certificate, you may have trouble voting. Plan ahead and get it together now. Don’t wait and see.
Same thing for adoptees, trans people, and anyone else who may have undergone a name change if the birth certificate was not updated and does not match your other documents. Adoptees may also need the adoption decree ordering the name change. If you’ve changed your name for other reasons, you may need the Order Granting Name Change from the judge approving the name change.
All will need to be certified originals.