Social Security, your state license, the passport, the IRS and your voter registration.
Because the Social Security record is the one most licensing agencies check your new name against — several states require the update first on their own pages — so doing it first keeps the license visit to one trip.
Social Security is free, the passport has published federal fees, and the license fee is set by your state. Every fee is paid to the agency, never to us.
Social Security mails a card within 5 to 10 business days after it processes the request, and the State Department lists roughly 4 to 6 weeks for routine passport processing or 2 to 3 expedited.
Sometimes. A last-name change after marriage can be requested online in some states; a change from a divorce or a court order cannot, and needs original documents in person or by mail.
DS-5504 if your passport was issued less than a year ago and your name changed within a year of that; DS-82 if it was issued in the last 15 years and you were at least 16 when it was; DS-11 in every other case.
A name change does not oblige you to get a REAL ID. But enforcement is in effect for domestic flights, so a reissue is the natural moment to ask what your state needs to make your card compliant.
It depends on your state, and only some publish a figure. The ones we have read directly off a statute or an agency page run from 10 days to 60 days.
The card carries two lines of 26 characters each, and Social Security shortens what it prints — usually a middle name — when a name does not fit.