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Knot - Why not have a legal name change (court ordered)? Not sure what the process is like in your jurisdiction, but where I live it is very easy and can be done pretty much by mail (aside from notarizing the paperwork). Very nominal fee. The only bummer is going to social security in person, but if you get there early in the day, you can get in and out fairly quickly.

It's $100 and an appearance before a judge. I can (and did) use my marriage license to legally change everything else, it makes me mad that I should have to go through an entirely separate process for the Federal stuff. And pay extra for it. "Please, sir, can I have some more [civil rights]?"

ETA: the "perhaps" part of the passport change is that the latest Federal ruling states they will acknowledge marriage licenses for name changes (and ONLY for name changes) only for folks who live in a state that issues them or recognizes them from other states. My state doesn't issue them, nor officially recognize them from other states, but it DID let me use my out-of-state marriage license to change my ID/DL. I guess that's unofficial recognition, so it is in a bit of limbo for the federal passport as far as all the legal research I've tried to do.

Being a flaming h0m0 takes so much extra work....