As I mentioned, your case is exactly similar to my case but with following differences:
1. My wife's family name on marriage certificate is her pre-marriage family name but your wife's family name on marriage certificate is her post-marriage family name which I believe can cause problems.
2. My wife's family name before marriage was her father's given name and my wife's family name after marriage is her husband's (myself) given name. I don't know if it is the same came with you. Is Yondoti your father-in-law's given name/part of full name or caste name and is Gumma your given name/part of your full name or caste name? In my case, it is very straight forward to prove that my wife is daughter of my father-in-law and wife of myself due to her family name.
Now I think, you have two options:
1. Go and get rectify your marriage certificate by printing your wife's pre-marriage full name. Attach her birth certificate, secondary school certificate (showing her full name, date of birth and father's name) and rectified marriage certificate as pre-marriage documents and National ID cards, Passport, Driving license (if available) as post-marriage documents along with an explanation letter clearly writing your wife was carrying ABC Yondoti before marriage and she decided to change her family name after marriage and now she is carrying ABC Gumma and refer to attached documents for CIO. This is what I did. Your case will be pretty straight forward if Yondoti is part of your father-in-law's name and Gumma is part of your name.
2. Attach her birth certificate and secondary school certificate (showing her full name, date of birth and father's name) as pre-marriage documents and existing marriage certificate, National ID cards, Passport, Driving license (if available) as post-marriage documents along with an explanation letter clearly writing your wife was carrying ABC Yondoti before marriage and she decided to change her family name after marriage and now she is carrying ABC Gumma and refer to attached documents for CIO. Your have to clearly explain that your marriage certificate was registered after 15 days of marriage therefore her post-marriage family name is printed rather than pre-marriage family name.
If this is legal and easy to rectify marriage certificates in your country, I am sure you won't face any problem but for option 2, it will be a try and there is no harm in trying if you can't go for option 1. You can also get a legal opinion on both options because I am not legal expert.
Good luck for you.
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Thank you very much for your kind reply
but what I understood from your post is that
you misunderstood my question, hence the recommendations follwoed the same way
let me clearly explain to you
Yednoti is my wife maiden family name and Gumma is my family name.
so by virtue of marriage obviously she will get my family name.
more over in her birth certificates and passports her father name, her mother name and my name was there
so no question of elating with her maiden family name.
coming to marriage certificate
In India, every state has its own rules and regulations.
In my opinion there is no such hard rule that wife maiden name should come in marriage certificates,
for instances in my case for getting marriage certificate, we need to give an affidavit which shall be notarized by Notary public stating that
my maiden name is xxxxx and I married with this guy on this date XXXX at xxxxx
so, By virtue of marriage please change my family name.
along with this affidavit other documents are three witness, combined photo, marriage invitation
needs to submit to marriage registrar
after careful examination, he will issue marriage certificate with family name of husband for wife.
hence for wife, husband family name will come on marriage certificate itself.
There are some cases, the wife name will be her maiden name for whom they don't submit an affidavit along with witness.
I dont find any problem in my marriage certiifcate, and moreover it was attested by Ministry of External affairs, India.
My wife also got US dependent visa with same marriage certificate .
Actually my question is
since we submitted the notarized affidavit to marriage registar and we dont have that copy
so can we submit marriage certificate and passport copies since my wife family name already changed.
for her maiden name i can submit her birth certificates.
I got suggestion form one of my colleague that notarized Sworn affidavit by my wife will serve the purpose.
if you any suggestions please let me know
