Typo on I-129F!!!!

[Lupy 0]

Oh my god! I was reviewing my copy of the I-129F that I sent in and realized that I made a typo on my I-129F. What I did was very very stupid and I cannot believe that I did it, and I seriously cannot believe that I did not see it when I reviewed it before I sent it.

On question 18 when they give you that little box to describe how you met your fiance, I was trying to squeeze as much information in there as possible in addition to writing SEE ATTACHED SUPPLEMENT. Well, I wrote and rewrote and rewrote a bunch of things in there and somehow I ended up saying that I met my fiance online in October 2005 when I actually met her online in August 2006!!! I met her IN PERSON in October 2008. The only thing I can think of that I did was that I was rewriting the beginning and ending of sentences and I spliced them together because of the space requirements and somehow I hit a 5 when I meant an 8 and put the wrong sentence together.

So stupid!!!!!

I know this sounds completely obvious and incredible of a mistake to make.. especially since I reviewed the damned this several times. Somehow my nerves got the best of me and I made this stupid error.

On my attached supplement I have a very detailed (and absolutely correct and accurate) timeline of how we met online and in person.

So I called USCIS and they told me not to panic and make an appointment at my local USCIS office to meet with someone there to help me correct it.

My question is- should I panic? I just got my NOA1 and I'm still at the very beginning of the process here. Is this something that can even be cleared up? Is this going to cause a serious problem? Am I totally screwed? Did I just throw up a huge red flag for them that I'm a total idiot or not telling the truth?

I have struggled throughout my life with a bit of dyslexia so I've always tried to be extra careful filling out forms but it seems I've made a terrible mistake here. Any help or insight would be appreciated.

[Bobby+Umit 161]

Don't worry about it. Just do what the USCIS told you to do.

If they don't get it done, they will send an RFE - and you can correct it.

DONT PANIC.

[KimandRuss 0]

I think we've all probably found some silly mistake on our petition after it was sent. I know I did ...and I prepared for a year!

Chances are it's not going to cause a problem because i'm sure the adjuticator has many documents from which to go by to determine the timeline of your relationship. If you do happen to receive an RFE (again, I don't think this is likely) then it's a simple enough explanation. Nobody's perfect!

Now take a deep breath!

[Lupy 0]

Don't worry about it. Just do what the USCIS told you to do.

If they don't get it done, they will send an RFE - and you can correct it.

DONT PANIC.

Thank you very much for talking me off the edge of the cliff here. The stress of all of this without making a mistake is huge as it is. And knowing that I made such a stupid and obvious mistake makes me feel obviously stupid. I'm just hoping that when she gets all the way to the interview, the CO isn't like.. "So, your fiance wasn't even able to write down what month and year you first met properly?" Oh my god! I hope that doesn't happen!

[Jasman0717 9]

I wouldn't worry about it, that is a minor thing. The important stuff is the proof of meeting and proof of an ongoing relationship for the interview. Good luck

[KimandRuss 0]

You have a long way to go... so hopefully in that time you can prepare best you can for when it's time for your fiance to apply for the visa.

On my letter of intent I noted that we'd be marrying within 90 days of my entrance to the USA with my K-1 visa... only, i'm the USC. Didn't change the text from the sample. D'oh! Made no difference in our case and I actually didn't catch it until after we'd been approved and I was updating it for the Embassy.

[Lupy 0]

You have a long way to go... so hopefully in that time you can prepare best you can for when it's time for your fiance to apply for the visa.

On my letter of intent I noted that we'd be marrying within 90 days of my entrance to the USA with my K-1 visa... only, i'm the USC. Didn't change the text from the sample. D'oh! Made no difference in our case and I actually didn't catch it until after we'd been approved and I was updating it for the Embassy.

Thank you so much! It makes me feel much better hearing that other people have made little mistakes and had them corrected. We sent it a very very large amount of clear evidence of our relationship- boarding passes, passport stamps, pictures, etc. In addition we sent in samples of emails which show the date we first met online. We had to trim our emails down because when we compiled them all, we realized we had about 3,500 pages of emails! But the evidence in itself is very clear and obvious to the dates. And I also correctly put the timeline on the supplement to question 18. Hopefully I can get this cleared up next week when I get to my local office.

Thanks again for the support. It seriously makes me feel less freaked out right now!

Edited March 6, 2009 by Lupy

[Danu 19]

You have a long way to go... so hopefully in that time you can prepare best you can for when it's time for your fiance to apply for the visa.

On my letter of intent I noted that we'd be marrying within 90 days of my entrance to the USA with my K-1 visa... only, i'm the USC. Didn't change the text from the sample. D'oh! Made no difference in our case and I actually didn't catch it until after we'd been approved and I was updating it for the Embassy.

I did something similar...I wrote up Wes's letter(he is the USC) and mine (basically just copy/pasted the letters over) and in the process didn't change it, so it would have said the same thing as yours lol. He caught it though as we were putting things together. I'm sure I will come across something else I screwed up.

[Bobby+Umit 161]

Don't worry about it. Just do what the USCIS told you to do.

If they don't get it done, they will send an RFE - and you can correct it.

DONT PANIC.

Thank you very much for talking me off the edge of the cliff here. The stress of all of this without making a mistake is huge as it is. And knowing that I made such a stupid and obvious mistake makes me feel obviously stupid. I'm just hoping that when she gets all the way to the interview, the CO isn't like.. "So, your fiance wasn't even able to write down what month and year you first met properly?" Oh my god! I hope that doesn't happen!

I would be more worried about them pulling your brainssss out....

:bonk:

[Lupy 0]

Don't worry about it. Just do what the USCIS told you to do.

If they don't get it done, they will send an RFE - and you can correct it.

DONT PANIC.

Thank you very much for talking me off the edge of the cliff here. The stress of all of this without making a mistake is huge as it is. And knowing that I made such a stupid and obvious mistake makes me feel obviously stupid. I'm just hoping that when she gets all the way to the interview, the CO isn't like.. "So, your fiance wasn't even able to write down what month and year you first met properly?" Oh my god! I hope that doesn't happen!

I would be more worried about them pulling your brainssss out....

:bonk:

haha Well, I'm a big fan of Romero's zombie movies.. so this is a particularly funny thing to say. haha. Hopefully my fiancee doesn't have an undead CO over in Bulgaria.. although from what I've heard that may be a distinct possibility!

[TBoneTX 45,324]

One of the hardest things to do is to proofread one's own work, si man.

[rainkiss10 0]

no prob. i made a mistake on mine too.. particularly, i wrote june instead of July 2008 on his last visit to me.. I visa center really dont mind typo errors.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Oh my god! I was reviewing my copy of the I-129F that I sent in and realized that I made a typo on my I-129F. What I did was very very stupid and I cannot believe that I did it, and I seriously cannot believe that I did not see it when I reviewed it before I sent it.

On question 18 when they give you that little box to describe how you met your fiance, I was trying to squeeze as much information in there as possible in addition to writing SEE ATTACHED SUPPLEMENT. Well, I wrote and rewrote and rewrote a bunch of things in there and somehow I ended up saying that I met my fiance online in October 2005 when I actually met her online in August 2006!!! I met her IN PERSON in October 2008. The only thing I can think of that I did was that I was rewriting the beginning and ending of sentences and I spliced them together because of the space requirements and somehow I hit a 5 when I meant an 8 and put the wrong sentence together.

So stupid!!!!!

I know this sounds completely obvious and incredible of a mistake to make.. especially since I reviewed the damned this several times. Somehow my nerves got the best of me and I made this stupid error.

On my attached supplement I have a very detailed (and absolutely correct and accurate) timeline of how we met online and in person.

So I called USCIS and they told me not to panic and make an appointment at my local USCIS office to meet with someone there to help me correct it.

My question is- should I panic? I just got my NOA1 and I'm still at the very beginning of the process here. Is this something that can even be cleared up? Is this going to cause a serious problem? Am I totally screwed? Did I just throw up a huge red flag for them that I'm a total idiot or not telling the truth?

I have struggled throughout my life with a bit of dyslexia so I've always tried to be extra careful filling out forms but it seems I've made a terrible mistake here. Any help or insight would be appreciated.

I would say relax and do not even go to the local office. For one thing the USCIS couldn't care less when you "met" your fiancee online. It isn't important, in fact, completely irrelevent for the petition. They want to know about when you met her IN PERSON. If the description of that meeting is correct, don't worry. Any typos in the initial meeting online can be corrected later for the interview in the "proof of ongoing relationship" portion. Explain your error with a letter to the consulate in your package for the interview.

[Lupy 0]

Oh my god! I was reviewing my copy of the I-129F that I sent in and realized that I made a typo on my I-129F. What I did was very very stupid and I cannot believe that I did it, and I seriously cannot believe that I did not see it when I reviewed it before I sent it.

On question 18 when they give you that little box to describe how you met your fiance, I was trying to squeeze as much information in there as possible in addition to writing SEE ATTACHED SUPPLEMENT. Well, I wrote and rewrote and rewrote a bunch of things in there and somehow I ended up saying that I met my fiance online in October 2005 when I actually met her online in August 2006!!! I met her IN PERSON in October 2008. The only thing I can think of that I did was that I was rewriting the beginning and ending of sentences and I spliced them together because of the space requirements and somehow I hit a 5 when I meant an 8 and put the wrong sentence together.

So stupid!!!!!

I know this sounds completely obvious and incredible of a mistake to make.. especially since I reviewed the damned this several times. Somehow my nerves got the best of me and I made this stupid error.

On my attached supplement I have a very detailed (and absolutely correct and accurate) timeline of how we met online and in person.

So I called USCIS and they told me not to panic and make an appointment at my local USCIS office to meet with someone there to help me correct it.

My question is- should I panic? I just got my NOA1 and I'm still at the very beginning of the process here. Is this something that can even be cleared up? Is this going to cause a serious problem? Am I totally screwed? Did I just throw up a huge red flag for them that I'm a total idiot or not telling the truth?

I have struggled throughout my life with a bit of dyslexia so I've always tried to be extra careful filling out forms but it seems I've made a terrible mistake here. Any help or insight would be appreciated.

I have an update on this. I made an infopass appointment per the instructions of the national customer service. I had to drive for about an hour and and half through traffic down to the closest local office in center city philadelphia to get there. Then when I finally get my number, wait around for my number to be called and get up to the booth to explain my situation the lady there (who happened to be very nice by the way) told me that I was given the wrong information. They cannot help me there at my local office. She was very apologetic that I came all the way down there for nothing. She told me that I would have to call back the national customer service number and ask them for a "service request" on my I-129F for this sort of error. I asked her to check on this for me because I wanted to be absolutely sure that I wasn't going around in circles here. Yes, that's what you need to do, she told me.

Anyway- out on the street I call the customer service number like she instructed and got ahold of somewhere there. I explained my situation again, in depth, and told her I was instructed to ask them for a "service request" to correct this error. The CSR said yes, indeed, she could process this sort of request to correct this error for me.. but for some reason her computer was having a technical problem at the moment and could I call back in about an hour to ask again for this service request. And she was also very sorry I was given the wrong information and had to drive all the way down to philly and back for no reason.

So.. I called back about an hour later and got yet another person. I explained everything again. And this time I was told that they cannot process this sort of service request there. I would have to write a letter directly to the Vermont service center asking them to correct it. I asked him if he was absolutely sure about this since this is the 3rd different answer I've received, and in each case they apparently asked their supervisors for guidance on my problem.

Everyone I've talked to has been very nice. It just doesn't appear to me that anyone actually has a clue how to deal with a service request on a petition prior to an RFE. I guess that's just how it goes.

So I wrote this letter, had it notorized and sent it off into whatever black hole of bureacracy that is the USCIS. Hopefully it ends up getting tucked into my file or somewhere near it at some point.

[Bobby+Umit 161]

ahhhhh, they didn't take your brainsssss..

rats....