Need help, Philippine Fiancee last name spelling error on her birth certificate, was never corrected

[sakosf 0]

I am planning to visit a women for 5 days, in the Philippines, next week and very likely that will propose marraige to her during the visit. I spent one day with her last March, but due to a medical problem I left the Philippines after spending just the one day with her out of a 10 day planned visit. There are only 2 pictures of us together from that visit. Our relationship started last Dec online. Her last name was spelled incorrectly on her birth certificate and was never corrected. It was spelled with a "i" in her last name when it should have been a "e". Her passport all all her documents have the spelling with the "i" in the last name. I have hired a company to help me prepare my K1 VISA petition. My thinking was to include a short letter with the VISA petition explaining the spelling error and that her legal name in the Philippines is the last name spelled with the "i". On her birth certificate her mother & father's last name can be seen spelled with a "e" and my darling's name is typed with a "i". My VISA advisor suggests not including a letter stating that. He suggests spelling her father's name on the G-325A form with a "i" and let USCIS surmise it is her father's last name that is spelled incorrectly on the birth certificate. To compound the problem, the printed emails & chat msg I have from my darling are a mixture of having her last name spelled both ways. I plan just to submit about 10 letters and cards sent through the mail from her to me with my petition and not the emails. I have a lot of phone call records and records of daily cell phone & Skype txt msg exchanges. I am not sure what to do about the last name problem. It seems like a long, costly expense, to try to have all have her documents changed ??? My advisor thinks USCIS may reject the petition over this issue :-(

Edited September 4, 2010 by sakosf

[Grey 0]

Her last name was spelled incorrectly on her birth certificate and was never corrected. It was spelled with a "i" in her last name when it should have been a "e". Her passport all all her documents have the spelling with the "i" in the last name.

She need to file a petition for correction of clerical error in the birth certificate.

Like my fiancee she also from Philippines her mothers name also put incorrectly as in a different name... name of her grandmother was written in her birth certificate..but glad she made it corrected..but it took 6 months to process well it depends on the case her case was a bit longer but your fiance maybe just easy to fix because it just one letter.

[sakosf 0]

Ok, if she needs to file a petition for the correction of the clerical error on her birth certificate, then her passport and all her her documents need to be changed. I guess and I can't file the VISA petition until at least her birth certificate is corrected? . If she did that and got the spelling of her last name corrected, the problem is the return address on the letters she has sent me, has the spelling of her last name with the "i" in it. The way it is spelled now.

Edited September 4, 2010 by sakosf