Another Passport Name Question

[visaveteran1 33]

I had my wife change both her Russian passports to her married name and I thought all was well. Now I wonder as we sweat out the CR-1 process. We're at least at he NVC stage.

The name issue is that the way the Russians translate my last turns it into a different name in effect. I'll give a fake example. English name "Robert Duvall." Russian spelling in passport--"Robert Davol"

Can my wife fix this problem on her passport so the last name in English is right, or do we just live with it and maybe fix it later in the USA?

[Evgeniya 3]

I had my wife change both her Russian passports to her married name and I thought all was well. Now I wonder as we sweat out the CR-1 process. We're at least at he NVC stage.

The name issue is that the way the Russians translate my last turns it into a different name in effect. I'll give a fake example. English name "Robert Duvall." Russian spelling in passport--"Robert Davol"

Can my wife fix this problem on her passport so the last name in English is right, or do we just live with it and maybe fix it later in the USA?

Hey, I am still dealing with the same issue. I have changed my name to my husband's name and as of today I don't have a international passport (zagran passport) because if I apply now I will get an extra letter to my husband's name. I went to the local Russian immigration office with this problem. And here what they told me, I have to petition to the Federal Immigration office in Moscow, to get a permission for a spelling that I want. Immigration offices that issue Russian passports have a set computer program where they put a name in Russian and it automatically puts it into English, so that Croom in Russian is Крум and when it gets back to English it turns into Crum. You already know that.

Anyway, I sent a package to Immigration Office in Moscow with my copies of my internal passport, my husband passport and our American marriage license. I haven't heard anything back for a month, so I faxed everything. I got a call from Immigration Office in Moscow three weeks ago and they said they would send me a letter with a permission for a different spelling that will match my husband's passport. I am still waiting.....

But I know other couples who had the same problem and on their I-130 they just put a right spelling to begin with so that all American documents: green card and SSC and all have a right spelling and who cares if a Russian passport is different. We did the same thing when we applied put a correct last name spelling on I-130. I will give it another week to hear from UFMS in Moscow and just will apply for a new passport with incorect spelling since fighting Russian bureaucracy is even more pointless than American one.

Edited February 29, 2008 by Evgeniya