Name change

Took me 7 weeks

View Quoted Comment Thanks! Did you mail in your documents and if so they just mailed them back with no problem?

View Quoted Comment Np ! I'm in NJ and all I had to do was mail in my marriage certificate and fill out the application

View Quoted Comment Oh okay and the 7 weeks was just for social security or the entire name change with drivers license?

View Quoted Comment 7 weeks for social Security. Got married in May. Submitted in June sometime . Got it back in july. In NJ the DMV opened late summer so on September 4 I got my new license with a name change and that took me 3 hours😒

View Quoted Comment Ugh thats such a pain in the butt I havent even tried to get a DMV appt yet, Im in NJ too. Feel like its gonna take like 2 months just to get an appt. thanks for answering!

View Quoted Comment You're welcome! It is such a pain

I'm in Maryland they received my application and documents 10/17. I received my documents back last Thursday and I received my new social security card yesterday. So it only took 2 weeks!

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I feel like we talked about this before in another discussion, but did you have to send in any documents other than your marriage license and the application? I am also in MD but have been waiting to do social security because I didn't want to mail original documents.

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Yes we have and yes! I mailed my original birth certificate, passport, the application, and a certified marriage certificate. I mailed everything certified and they sent my original documents back to me certified as well. They sent the social security card back regular mail. They received them 10/17 and I have everything back already!

I was also told 3 weeks, buy it took 9 weeks. I live in Illinois but I did get my papers back within a week so that was relieving. I can't wait to go stand in a 3-4 hour line Friday for my driver's license. I might just get there 2 hours before they open to try to beat the line.

View Quoted Comment That is so frustrating, I understand there may be a backlog but it should not take over two months to change the name on a card. I also know at the beginning of the pandemic you needed an appointment at the DMV so that couldve added a month to it but seems like thats not a thing anymore. By papers, do you mean the marriage certificate/application, and then the actual card took 9 weeks?

View Quoted Comment Yes, I submitted it all the moment I got our license back and it took 9 weeks from the day I sent it. It was frustrating. And I very much am not looking forward to waiting in the cold for my license

I got mine within 2 weeks, but I did get married at the end of February, right before everything started shutting down. One of my friends who recently got married said she was told 8-12 weeks when she changed her name b/c of COVID and how backed up the SSA was - she got married last month.

View Quoted Comment Oh yeah back in February/early March everything was still functioning like normal. It’s so frustrating i feel like I’ll be married a year before my name is changed. So depressing