Resident Alien Card

Do you know about green card? Are you aware of resident alien card? For clearing this term, first of all, you need to know about what resident alien is. Any foreigner, who is living in any other country different from his home country for a long period of time, is called resident alien. Such individuals are not accepted by that country's government but still have their name enroll in the country through any legal means. Such resident aliens generally enjoy the right to do work. However, there are certain cases when residents of some other country start living in other country through some illegal means and the term used for such residents is called undocumented alien or illegal alien as they are living in country through some illegal means.

In some countries, the term resident alien card is called as green card. Generally, US use the word green card for its alien card. Resident alien card plays very important role and hence, information listed on this card should be latest. Some legal documents like driver's license are only issued under identity documents in the resident alien card.

Your name listed on resident alien card should be correct to each and every word. If there is any issue over your name, it is likely that you will face problems when scrutiny is done in airports or at other places or when there is some checking by the government representatives.

You must take proper pains, whenever your name is being changed. There are many circumstances in one's life when changes in name occur like in case of marriage or in case of any divorce. So please take proper steps for getting your name changed in the resident's alien card.

To change your name, you can follow simple procedure. You are required to file an application I-90 along with Citizenship and Immigration services also called as (USCIS). This application will make aware USCIS about your changed name and then, they will issue a new resident alien card for you in which your new name would be clearly listed.

You can take this form from local office if USCIS or get it downloaded from uscis.gov in pdf format and ask for new application.

You are advised to go through the instructions prior to filling the application. When you have cross checked the form and all the details are thoroughly checked, just post in the address of USCIC.

Hence, by following such simple steps, you can easily change the name on your resident alien card.