Help with Russian Alphabet Problems

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

I am very happy that I listened to the wise floks on this board.

Becasue of you I did not try to get a corrected NOA2 back at USCIS- that might have taken weeks.

I just left it alone.

When I called NSC today to see if that had my packet and in what name, they said, "Oh yea we saw that her name was incorrect on the NOA2 Notice, but we fixed it, and have her name correct as Oksana not Oxsana".

They told me that all futrue paperwork will have it correct from this point forth also.

Horra for visajourney and the good advice..

Mark

Seems like I answered another post like this, did you post it elsewhere?

Now the bad news. Nothing you did or would do with USCIS or NVC matters a whit, none. The consulate will issue the VISA in the name exactly as it is in the passport and pay no attention to anything else. The others that say how it is spelled doesn't matter are correct, it does not matter, but the consulate will ONLY do what is in the passport. Alla does so many translations and deals with this all the time that she simply asks people how it is spelled in the passport. we had to get a new passport for our son just before he got his K-2 to follow visa, after all the documents were transliterated to the preferred spelling of his name...Sergey, the Ukrainians decide to spell his name "Sergii", that is how his visa ended up. There is absolutely NO WAY his name transliterates to "Sergii" but that is what they did and we had no time for him to get it changed, he was in Russia in school until just before he went to his interview. So now he is "Sergii" much to Alla's dismay, though Sergey/Sergii really doesn't care...just don't call him late for lunch. They also transliterated Pasha's name from Pavel to "Pavlo" which really ticks her off.

If you want to change the name for all time...have your fiancee go to the authorities in Ukraine and change the name in her passport before her interview. The consulate will accept any reasonable transliteration of Oxsana/Oxana/Oksana on any documents (it does not even have to be the same on all the documents)