filing my US citizenship but my middle initial from my green card is incorrect

[khg 0]

Hi,

I'll be filing my US citizenship now but I am wondering if I can automatically change my incorrect middle initial from my permanent resident card. I wanted to file my citizenship right away. What should I do now?? Does anybody experienced this? My incorrect middle initial was my second name's initial. Please I need answers..

[Captain Oates 910]

Hi,

I'll be filing my US citizenship now but I am wondering if I can automatically change my incorrect middle initial from my permanent resident card. I wanted to file my citizenship right away. What should I do now?? Does anybody experienced this? My incorrect middle initial was my second name's initial. Please I need answers..

Do an info pass appointment and take all your documents and ID's

Sort it before the N-400 application

Edited September 7, 2010 by saywhat

[Brother Hesekiel 2,235]

Except . . . at the N-400 stage you can choose about any name you want anyway. So while I agree with saywhat in that what he suggested is most likely the most appropriate way to do this, you'll be asked at the interview anyway if you'd like to change your name. At that time you could point out that your middle name was spelled incorrectly but it had not bothered you since you don't use it, but would like the correct spelling to transfer to your new life as a US citizen.

[khg 0]

thanks "saywhat". where can I have that info pass appointment then?

Do an info pass appointment and take all your documents and ID's

Sort it before the N-400 application

Ok. so I really can't apply my us citizenship now with the incorrect middle initial?..

Do an info pass appointment and take all your documents and ID's

Sort it before the N-400 application

[Captain Oates 910]

Except . . . at the N-400 stage you can choose about any name you want anyway. So while I agree with saywhat in that what he suggested is most likely the most appropriate way to do this, you'll be asked at the interview anyway if you'd like to change your name. At that time you could point out that your middle name was spelled incorrectly but it had not bothered you since you don't use it, but would like the correct spelling to transfer to your new life as a US citizen.

My only fear is that they will try and match records and birth certificates and FBI/Court records/Passport etc or whatever and find a discrepancy and it will throw em into a tiz woz.

Anything that doesn't fit causes the wheels to fall off with these guys. It's even enough to get a credit card refused so its certainly enough to make a USCIS robot go 'does not compute'. Those guys are not interpretive like google even.

My surname being entered wrongly on the POE record was enough for SS to refuse me a number. It was one letter wrong on a 4 letter surname (I wouldn't dare say that on the off topic forum). There is a regulation provision for fixing that informally (one letter)so I got em to accept it the next day.

I accept that changing the whole name is possible at naturalization, but getting there with a mis-spelled GC might involve delays and queries

If I had time before my intended filing date I would do an infopass and fix it first.

It should have been fixed immediately on GC receipt if it was noticed, as these things only fester and hurt us later.

We are not dealing with people - this is the USCIS who were brought from the purple prism planet to dissipate our will to live prior to conquest

[NickD 202]

Can only offer opinions, you have two middle names, therefore two middle initials. USCIS dropped one of them, the other is correct, but you are saying it is incorrect. Because you feel they should have dropped the second and left the first.

One possibility is that if you have a foot long first and last name, wasn't enough spaces in your green card to put all that in plus two middle initials. Learning about Latin America since I married my wife from there, some people have six middle names, in this country, customary only to have one. On many forms when they ask for a middle initial only space for one letter.

Kind of kept quiet when my wife wanted to use two surnames, maybe I should have said something, but kept quiet that is unusual for me, but she learned for herself how confusing that is so she dropped it on her N-400, no problems for us doing that. Would simple get accustomed to using one middle name and filling out your N-400. If a question arises at your interview, state that you put down two middle initials, the USCIS dropped the first and kept the second.

Just my opinion on this. Are both your middle names on all of your documents? Wife never had to show her birth certificate at her interview, just her green card. But they sure wanted to see my birth certificate, again.

[Captain Oates 910]

thanks "saywhat". where can I have that info pass appointment then?

Ok. so I really can't apply my us citizenship now with the incorrect middle initial?..

If you log onto the USCIS site you can arrange an infopass at your local office

Sure you can apply for the N400 before you correct your misspelled green card, but what I am saying is there is a danger it will cause delays along the line during the n400 checks.

If it was me, I would sort the GC first; but you might prefer to just apply and take it as it comes. I would fear that it might disappear into a black hole that would take a long time to sort out if the problem arose inside the N400 process.

You could do an infopass and ask em how long it will take for them to issue a new GC - if the answer is many months, then perhaps just saying don't bother and going for the N400 can't do any additional harm.

Edited September 8, 2010 by saywhat

[NickD 202]

If you log onto the USCIS site you can arrange an infopass at your local office

Sure you can apply for the N400 before you correct your misspelled green card, but what I am saying is there is a danger it will cause delays along the line during the n400 checks.

If it was me, I would sort the GC first; but you might prefer to just apply and take it as it comes. I would fear that it might disappear into a black hole that would take a long time to sort out if the problem arose inside the N400 process.

You could do an infopass and ask em how long it will take for them to issue a new GC - if the answer is many months, then perhaps just saying don't bother and going for the N400 can't do any additional harm.

Accuracy of a LPR card should be checked instantly the day your received it and is corrected at no charge to you. Now, how many months have passed? May have to file an I-90 that costs 290 bucks and may take months to process. Just recently, a woman stated her LP since date was wrong, when applying for the N-400, that is a hell of a time to catch that.

Recall like yesterday when my wife and daughter were dancing all over the house when their first green cards came in, told them to be quiet so I could check the accuracy first, and have done that for all received USCIS documents including the alien number. Have to say, everything was correct, but did receive my birth certificate from the good old state of Illinois with errors on it when they switched to a computer database. Insisted on looking at my daughters first drivers license, again she was jumping up and down after we left and got in the car. Spelled her last name with one instead of two L's, we have to go back in and get that corrected.

What can one say when one has an inaccurate green card that was never found until applying for US citizenship? Should have been spotted on day one.

[Captain Oates 910]

What can one say when one has an inaccurate green card that was never found until applying for US citizenship? Should have been spotted on day one.

chuckle

you are like me Nick - it's a personality type thing.

My wife is a 'put it off' type whereas I am 'now'. I bought her a kvm switch to run her two computers at once 6 months ago - she never has the time to get it going (a 5 minute job). I ask every week and every week it's later, later, later. You can imagine what it's like when I am booking plane seats and there are 2 left and she is dithering and procrastinating while I am bouncing up and down saying come on !

It's also a good principle for interviews - when they say "you have passed the test and 'x' will happen later". Don't jump for joy and rush out - ask em questions about when and where and who to contact if nothing happens until they are sick of you and they are ready for throwing you out

Every process and every document must be inspected and totally understood in detail until there are no questions left... and as far as the USCIS is concerned, a comma instead of a full stop (period) IS a big deal. Like Washington State speed cops, discretion and 'near enough' simply does not happen and differences and inaccuracies in documents sometimes halt applications for a VERY long time. There are plenty of examples on VJ.

Obama and O'Bama are not near enough.

[NickD 202]

Feel a team such as a marriage should compliment each other, otherwise there is competition. My wife has some very good attributes as well, but reading the fine print on government documents is not one of them. Found error in her previous marriage certificate, hers, and her daughters birth certificate from not so reliable government sources that had to be corrected first before being submitted to the USCIS. And in those Latin American countries, had to be done in a court of law.

Wouldn't have been too expensive if you don't mind waiting 2-3 years for a court date, but by some strange coincidence, all the judges had Miami bank accounts where you could pay a little extra for expedient service that I did for next day service. That "little" is not to be taken literally.

I used Adobe Pro Acrobat for all the forms where you can select font size and even has a spell checker. Use a commercial grade HP printer, but still checked that all the "T's" are crossed and the "I's" are dotted. And put in "N/A" in every blank we didn't have to fill out. Even filled out the top portion of that I-693, ha just got back from a doctors appointment where he wrote a note for another appointment, the girl at the appointment desk couldn't make it out.

[Captain Oates 910]

Feel a team such as a marriage should compliment each other, otherwise there is competition. My wife has some very good attributes as well, but reading the fine print on government documents is not one of them. Found error in her previous marriage certificate, hers, and her daughters birth certificate from not so reliable government sources that had to be corrected first before being submitted to the USCIS. And in those Latin American countries, had to be done in a court of law.

Wouldn't have been too expensive if you don't mind waiting 2-3 years for a court date, but by some strange coincidence, all the judges had Miami bank accounts where you could pay a little extra for expedient service that I did for next day service. That "little" is not to be taken literally.

I used Adobe Pro Acrobat for all the forms where you can select font size and even has a spell checker. Use a commercial grade HP printer, but still checked that all the "T's" are crossed and the "I's" are dotted. And put in "N/A" in every blank we didn't have to fill out. Even filled out the top portion of that I-693, ha just got back from a doctors appointment where he wrote a note for another appointment, the girl at the appointment desk couldn't make it out.

choke

I remember a poster on here putting 'N/A' on a line on her her GC forms, and when she got her GC it said her country was 'Netherlands Antilles'

I joke you not !

So it's blue passport or bust !