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mybabylovesmoi Posted: Jul 11, 2011 10:48 AM+

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Posted: Jul 11, 2011 10:48 AM

Additional question regarding name change

anybody get their marriage certificate of registration from the NYC office?

We finally got ours in the mail last week and it doesn't have a raised seal...I asked Pastor April and she says maybe the city does things differently?

anybody got theirs from the city? I wanna start changing my namee

ETA: did everyone go to the social security office of have some of you just mailed in the application and the original documents?

i'm filling the application now and I don't know how comfortable i am mailling all my docs...

ellie424 Posted: Jul 11, 2011 10:51 AM+

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Posted: Jul 11, 2011 10:51 AM

Re: Marriage Certificate from NEW YORK CITY?

I got my marriage certificate from NYC and we don't have a raised seal either. I already went to the SS office and DMV (both in Nassau) to change my name and neither of them had a problem with it.

mybabylovesmoi Posted: Jul 11, 2011 10:52 AM+

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Re: Marriage Certificate from NEW YORK CITY?

Posted by ellie424

I got my marriage certificate from NYC and we don't have a raised seal either. I already went to the SS office and DMV (both in Nassau) to change my name and neither of them had a problem with it.

YAY! okay, thanks so much. Everyone has been talking about this raised seal so I wasn't sure. awesome

ellie424 Posted: Jul 11, 2011 10:55 AM+

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Posted: Jul 11, 2011 10:55 AM

Re: Marriage Certificate from NEW YORK CITY?

Posted by mybabylovesmoi

Posted by ellie424

I got my marriage certificate from NYC and we don't have a raised seal either. I already went to the SS office and DMV (both in Nassau) to change my name and neither of them had a problem with it.

YAY! okay, thanks so much. Everyone has been talking about this raised seal so I wasn't sure. awesome

No problem! I read about the raised seal and was concerned too...but it wasn't a problem.

Byrne2Be Posted: Jul 11, 2011 11:02 AM+

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Posted: Jul 11, 2011 11:02 AM

Re: Marriage Certificate from NEW YORK CITY?

Posted by ellie424

Posted by mybabylovesmoi

Posted by ellie424

I got my marriage certificate from NYC and we don't have a raised seal either. I already went to the SS office and DMV (both in Nassau) to change my name and neither of them had a problem with it.

YAY! okay, thanks so much. Everyone has been talking about this raised seal so I wasn't sure. awesome

No problem! I read about the raised seal and was concerned too...but it wasn't a problem.

Exactly this!

adelz Posted: Jul 11, 2011 11:05 AM+

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Posted: Jul 11, 2011 11:05 AM

Re: Marriage Certificate from NEW YORK CITY?

Posted by mybabylovesmoi

Posted by ellie424

I got my marriage certificate from NYC and we don't have a raised seal either. I already went to the SS office and DMV (both in Nassau) to change my name and neither of them had a problem with it.

YAY! okay, thanks so much. Everyone has been talking about this raised seal so I wasn't sure. awesome

I feel like such a slacker, i haven't even thought of when I'm going to change my name lol

rdubs Posted: Jul 11, 2011 11:31 AM+

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Posted: Jul 11, 2011 11:31 AM

Re: Marriage Certificate from NEW YORK CITY?

Yep I did and never even heard about a raised seal until this post! You are fine.

HSsweethearts Posted: Jul 11, 2011 11:38 AM+

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Posted: Jul 11, 2011 11:38 AM

Re: Marriage Certificate from NEW YORK CITY?

I just got mine. It has no raised seal.

If you look on the lower left corner it says something like 'facsimile seal and signature provided under provision 34e32763285 of code 3857348563' or something,

The guy who 'signs' the NYC marriage licenses is one of my BILs best friends, so I think that's kind of cool that his sig is on my marriage lic

mybabylovesmoi Posted: Jul 11, 2011 11:56 AM+

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Posted: Jul 11, 2011 11:56 AM

Re: Marriage Certificate from NEW YORK CITY?

Posted by adelz

Posted by mybabylovesmoi

Posted by ellie424

I got my marriage certificate from NYC and we don't have a raised seal either. I already went to the SS office and DMV (both in Nassau) to change my name and neither of them had a problem with it.

YAY! okay, thanks so much. Everyone has been talking about this raised seal so I wasn't sure. awesome

I feel like such a slacker, i haven't even thought of when I'm going to change my name lol

hee hee I really want it to be official! and i will be finally letting go of my NY drivers license and getting a NJ one...

I think that's the saddest part

thanks for the answers, ladies!

adelz Posted: Jul 11, 2011 11:58 AM+

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Posted: Jul 11, 2011 11:58 AM

Re: Marriage Certificate from NEW YORK CITY?

Posted by mybabylovesmoi

Posted by adelz

Posted by mybabylovesmoi

Posted by ellie424

I got my marriage certificate from NYC and we don't have a raised seal either. I already went to the SS office and DMV (both in Nassau) to change my name and neither of them had a problem with it.

YAY! okay, thanks so much. Everyone has been talking about this raised seal so I wasn't sure. awesome

I feel like such a slacker, i haven't even thought of when I'm going to change my name lol

hee hee I really want it to be official! and i will be finally letting go of my NY drivers license and getting a NJ one...

I think that's the saddest part

thanks for the answers, ladies!

Atleast the jersey one is thicker! I didn't know you moved to Jersey...I used to live there for almost 2 years. Only annoying part was the monthly ez-pass fees. Ugh.

mybabylovesmoi Posted: Jul 11, 2011 12:03 PM+

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Posted: Jul 11, 2011 12:03 PM

Re: Marriage Certificate from NEW YORK CITY?

Posted by adelz

Posted by mybabylovesmoi

Posted by adelz

Posted by mybabylovesmoi

Posted by ellie424

I got my marriage certificate from NYC and we don't have a raised seal either. I already went to the SS office and DMV (both in Nassau) to change my name and neither of them had a problem with it.

YAY! okay, thanks so much. Everyone has been talking about this raised seal so I wasn't sure. awesome

I feel like such a slacker, i haven't even thought of when I'm going to change my name lol

hee hee I really want it to be official! and i will be finally letting go of my NY drivers license and getting a NJ one...

I think that's the saddest part

thanks for the answers, ladies!

Atleast the jersey one is thicker! I didn't know you moved to Jersey...I used to live there for almost 2 years. Only annoying part was the monthly ez-pass fees. Ugh.

HAH! I've BEEN living here for like 3 years, first at DH's apartment then we bought a house and i still didn't change my license

my excuse before was that I'll have to change it anyway when we got married

mybabylovesmoi Posted: Jul 11, 2011 02:11 PM+

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Posted: Jul 11, 2011 02:11 PM

Re: Additional question regarding name change

bump for additional question

halfbaked Posted: Jul 11, 2011 02:15 PM+

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Posted: Jul 11, 2011 02:15 PM

Re: Additional question regarding name change

I went to the SS office. According to their website, you HAVE to go in person. Now, I don't know how accurate that is since I know a couple 2010 brides mailed everything in and it worked out just fine, but I went down to the office to be sure. I haven't changed my name on my license or my passport yet though.