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[hellonew 0]

We headed to the Social Security office today and encountered one little problem. When my fiance entered the country, the customs officer put my fiances name wrong on the I-94, he put her first name in the last name area and so on. The social security officer said we will recieve the ss number in a month, but said we should contact USCIS. I looked on the USCIS website but nuthin came up, is there a form that i can fill up?? Please help!!!

[payxibka 10,045]

moved from AOS to the Working and travelling prior to a greencard forum

[Kathryn41 3,205]

You might want to make an infopass appointment at the local USCIS office, bring along proof of the correct name and ask them, in person, to make the necessary corrections. You can make the Infopass at the website ( http://www.uscis.gov ) by selecting 'Schedule an Appointment". They should be able to correct the mis-information, although I have heard of others needing to go back to the port of entry to get it corrected at the border. Try the first option as it is probably easier. The second option is there as a follow up.

Edited January 13, 2009 by Kathryn41

[I'm Gone 60]

We headed to the Social Security office today and encountered one little problem. When my fiance entered the country, the customs officer put my fiances name wrong on the I-94, he put her first name in the last name area and so on. The social security officer said we will recieve the ss number in a month, but said we should contact USCIS.

Are you saying it's backwards on the I-94 or the system SSA checked to verify her status? If it's OK on the I-94 and SSA can verify her status to assign the SSN, I wouldn't worry about it. If it's wrong on the I-94 it might be worth making an INFOPass appointment.

I wouldn't just take their word that the SSN card will arrive in a month.

There is a 3 step process in verifying an individual's immigration status to assign an SSN. First is an initial verification while you are at the office. I'm assuming that didn't verify. The next is a secondary electronic verification request and those normally provide a response within a week. If the response requests to see a copy of the immigration document(s) a photocopy of the front and back of the document is mailed along with form G-845 for verification and then it's mailed back to SSA.

I would find out if the initial verification failed and why, since you can have a one letter error with your name and still be acceptable. If the secondary electronic verification needs to be submitted, was it submitted and has a response been received. If copies were request, has the G-845 been sent.

Once the secondary request has been submitted give it a week and check back to see if a response has been received. If no response is received, make sure they call to see what's the problem. If the G-845 is sent, give it a couple weeks and check back once a week.

[Rocky_nBullwinkle 6]

We headed to the Social Security office today and encountered one little problem. When my fiance entered the country, the customs officer put my fiances name wrong on the I-94, he put her first name in the last name area and so on. The social security officer said we will recieve the ss number in a month, but said we should contact USCIS. I looked on the USCIS website but nuthin came up, is there a form that i can fill up?? Please help!!!

There is a good chance that you will be filing your AOS and EAD papers before anything is resolved with the I-94. The name you put on the I-765 will most likely become her legal (married) name, subject to correction again at your interview for your AOS. If the SSN shows up, fine, otherwise take her EAD when it arives to the SSA and get it all straightened out.

We could not get any state, or other ID's without the EAD. At the SSA, we could not change from my wife's maiden name to her married name, until the EAD arrived either.

-- Bullwinkle