If you want to change your name, you have to go to a judicial ceremony, which occurs (almost always) at a local federal courthouse, as opposed to an administrat

If you want to change your name, you have to go to a judicial ceremony, which occurs (almost always) at a local federal courthouse, as opposed to an administrative ceremony which may happen at a USCIS field office, school, auditorium, etc. FWIW, in Cleveland they only offer judicial ceremonies at the federal courthouse building. In places where administrative ceremonies are offered, they are usually done at a higher frequency than judicial ceremonies, though they still try to have at least one judicial ceremony per month.