(I cannot find a better forum to put this in. Feel free to move it if there is a more appropriate forum for this issue)
Shortly after I was born my mom married someone who is not my father. She got me a social security card after marrying him and wrote his last name (and her new legal last name) on it, thinking he would adopt me. He didn't adopt me and they split up. My mom never fixed my social security card. I'm now 20 years old and this has to be fixed. It is ruining my life. My birth certificate has my legal last name on it, my social security card has the last name that I have used my entire life. I didn't even know what my legal last name was until I was 12. I have always gone by the name on my ss card.
I used to live in washington and WAS able to get an id out there with the mismatched names. The id never arrived in the mail. Shortly after I moved to the state i'm in now, colorado. Washington cannot mail me the id I got out there. Colorado cannot give me id because the laws are different and they need both my ss card and birth certificate to have the same last names on them. I have NO other documents that have my legal last name on them.
I have tried absolutely everything. I've gone to social security, i've gone to the dmv, i've even tried to get my last name changed. Nobody can do anything because of the mismatched names. What I need is to go to court to fix this I think. But I cannot afford an attorney to help me. I don't have a job to pay for one. Can't get a job with the mismatched documents. This is a ridiculous problem and I really need help. What can I do?
Shortly after I was born my mom married someone who is not my father. She got me a social security card after marrying him and wrote his last name (and her new legal last name) on it, thinking he would adopt me. He didn't adopt me and they split up. My mom never fixed my social security card. I'm now 20 years old and this has to be fixed. It is ruining my life. My birth certificate has my legal last name on it, my social security card has the last name that I have used my entire life. I didn't even know what my legal last name was until I was 12. I have always gone by the name on my ss card.
I used to live in washington and WAS able to get an id out there with the mismatched names. The id never arrived in the mail. Shortly after I moved to the state i'm in now, colorado. Washington cannot mail me the id I got out there. Colorado cannot give me id because the laws are different and they need both my ss card and birth certificate to have the same last names on them. I have NO other documents that have my legal last name on them.
I have tried absolutely everything. I've gone to social security, i've gone to the dmv, i've even tried to get my last name changed. Nobody can do anything because of the mismatched names. What I need is to go to court to fix this I think. But I cannot afford an attorney to help me. I don't have a job to pay for one. Can't get a job with the mismatched documents. This is a ridiculous problem and I really need help. What can I do?