passport goes by the name on his immigration/naturalization records and he came from South Korea when he was like 3. he said he has little chance of getting them to change this.

BUT he does have a credit card with HAROLD on it so the SSN would match to his last name and other stuff in both names.

He can also hope they will be less ball busters than they might be and play the angle that this is just a matter of name switches and not passenger switches. Indeed they are far different things.

I will be helping him the best I can and the stuff in these threads is great, so thank you for posting ALL views. This is a hot issue. It sucks too since the close-minded view that some in security have is what dissallows the normal people in this world who simply do not fit into the majority ruled norm!

My wife flew out of here on her old passport and used her marraige cert to show to customs. She had gotten her own green card (she is dutch and recently flew home to see family on her own) and yet, this card was not yet mailed to her. The way it works is that immigration stamps the card info and A number into your passport and that is what you use before the actual green card (which, btw, is not green) comes in the mail weeks later.

So she had to hold onto her old passport with the old last name on it. She had to travel on it. She could not turn it in to switch it because there would not have been enough time to get it back. They allowed everything though. SHe had other IDs. So will Harold, when we fly in AUG.

We will be ready... Hey, they may haveto charge for extra baggage since I am telling him to bring EVERYTHING he has to show he is the same person.

In terms of miles, he DID sign up for the Air Tahiti mileage club as Hong SIk Harold Kim.

I know the way people think is that if it is on the computer, it must be real:

the agent who checks him in will see that and his FFP card will say that! This, plus his other IDs will help him.

MM