Legal name change

thechiiguin
Wed, 06 Apr 2005 13:40:08 +0000

I got my first name changed from my Chinese name to an English one. I’m registered at school and everything with my English name, but on my social security card, my ‘official’ name was still my Chinese one. My dad and I went and got it changed this summer. It cost under a hundred dollars (I live in Washington state, if that makes any difference). We filled out some paperwork, had it notarized at a bank, and then went to the county courthouse where a clerk and a judge looked through the papers, and signed them. It was pretty low key. Afterwards, we went to the social security office and had them change the name on my social security card.