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What is the name of your state?NY


Hi , me and my wife(maybe) got married in Mexico in august . We needed passports in order to get married there . We were kinda rushed and had to pay a service charge to get our passports quick , within 2 weeks , otherwise it would have taken months and we already bought our wedding/vacation.

In the midst of all the excitement we dint realize the second letter of my 11 letter last name was wrong . It read "A" instead of "E" . Everything else was correct . It states our parents names on the marriage licence , and they have my last name spelled correctly for my parents . Everything , except names and adresses , is in spanish .

While in Mexico we pointed this out to them but they said they had to use what was in our passports .

Are we married?

She hasn't changed anything over to her new last name yet , but we want to soon .

Maybe a little white out and a letter change?? :cool:

thx for any advise.
 


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ju|cer said:
What is the name of your state?NY


Hi , me and my wife(maybe) got married in Mexico in august . We needed passports in order to get married there . We were kinda rushed and had to pay a service charge to get our passports quick , within 2 weeks , otherwise it would have taken months and we already bought our wedding/vacation.

In the midst of all the excitement we dint realize the second letter of my 11 letter last name was wrong . It read "A" instead of "E" . Everything else was correct . It states our parents names on the marriage licence , and they have my last name spelled correctly for my parents . Everything , except names and adresses , is in spanish .

While in Mexico we pointed this out to them but they said they had to use what was in our passports .

Are we married?

She hasn't changed anything over to her new last name yet , but we want to soon .

Maybe a little white out and a letter change?? :cool:

thx for any advise.

If you are worried about it you can always go see a JP and get married again.
 
Out of curiosity, why don't you contact your local government office (vital records dept) and ask them the best way to fix the spelling. Just tell them that in your excitement you didn't look at it close enough to realize that there was a mispelling. How they fix it depends on local laws but my guess is that it'll be relatively to fix.
 
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ju|cer

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Thx for the replys . We considered going to the JP but dont really want to . Just a hassle and we already paid to be married .

My wife called some gov. office(im really not into politics or such so i dont know who) and they said since we were married out of the country they couldnt do anything about it.

Anyway , just wondering who's to say were not married? My tax guy im sure will except us as married....when she goes to utilitys or such i doubt they'll give her a problem over 1 letter when its an obvious mistake .

O well , guess we'll start changing the name over and see what happens .
 

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