Supplement to Form OF-169

[kpathak 0]

Greetings,

I sent in my wife's self generated DS-230 last week and the real DS-230 came in the mail yesterday. In the big envelope, there was a single sheet insert called supplement to form OF - 169. This sheet contains a few specific clarifying things such as registering marriages, birth certificates etc.

If contained one item which said:

PASSPORTS: If you are married, your passport should be ammended to reflect your marriage.

Has anyone had to do this? It is *painful* to go to the passport office in India -- all the paperwork is on her maiden name...

Thanks,

KP

[Yodrak 7]

KP,

My wife's passport is, and will remain, in her maiden name. But it does identify her as a 'Mrs.'

(Also, she's not from India.)

Yodrak

Greetings,

I sent in my wife's self generated DS-230 last week and the real DS-230 came in the mail yesterday. In the big envelope, there was a single sheet insert called supplement to form OF - 169. This sheet contains a few specific clarifying things such as registering marriages, birth certificates etc.

If contained one item which said:

PASSPORTS: If you are married, your passport should be ammended to reflect your marriage.

Has anyone had to do this? It is *painful* to go to the passport office in India -- all the paperwork is on her maiden name...

Thanks,

KP

Edited August 8, 2006 by Yodrak

[Adriana Brazil 0]

Greetings,

I sent in my wife's self generated DS-230 last week and the real DS-230 came in the mail yesterday. In the big envelope, there was a single sheet insert called supplement to form OF - 169. This sheet contains a few specific clarifying things such as registering marriages, birth certificates etc.

If contained one item which said:

PASSPORTS: If you are married, your passport should be ammended to reflect your marriage.

Has anyone had to do this? It is *painful* to go to the passport office in India -- all the paperwork is on her maiden name...

Thanks,

KP

I have one question: so now you have to send the OF-169 to your wife to sign it and then send it to NVC? Or you can answer it and send?

I just don´t understand what is this OF-169? Can it be self generated?

Edited August 8, 2006 by Adriana Brazil

[kpathak 0]

Sorry -- didn't mean to confuse the issue -- this OF-169 is NOT a form -- it is a sheet of information (almost like a checklist) and nothing needs to be signed or sent back. I was asking if anyone else was send this sheet and what did people do to address the "reflection of the marriage".

KP

Greetings,

I sent in my wife's self generated DS-230 last week and the real DS-230 came in the mail yesterday. In the big envelope, there was a single sheet insert called supplement to form OF - 169. This sheet contains a few specific clarifying things such as registering marriages, birth certificates etc.

If contained one item which said:

PASSPORTS: If you are married, your passport should be ammended to reflect your marriage.

Has anyone had to do this? It is *painful* to go to the passport office in India -- all the paperwork is on her maiden name...

Thanks,

KP

I have one question: so now you have to send the OF-169 to your wife to sign it and then send it to NVC? Or you can answer it and send?

I just don´t understand what is this OF-169? Can it be self generated?

[simple_male 1]

Greetings,

I sent in my wife's self generated DS-230 last week and the real DS-230 came in the mail yesterday. In the big envelope, there was a single sheet insert called supplement to form OF - 169. This sheet contains a few specific clarifying things such as registering marriages, birth certificates etc.

If contained one item which said:

PASSPORTS: If you are married, your passport should be ammended to reflect your marriage.

Has anyone had to do this? It is *painful* to go to the passport office in India -- all the paperwork is on her maiden name...

Thanks,

KP

Are you referring to the NVC instructions as OF-169? Where does it say that it is OF-169? I have not seen it yet. You only needed to send DS 230 part I and passport's biographical information pages.

[kpathak 0]

No -- it was a sheet insert which came with the DS-230 and at the bottom right of the sheet said "Supplement to form OF-169". It also said a couple of things about the "Hindu Marriage Act" so I imagine it is being sent to people who have filed for India.

KP

Greetings,

I sent in my wife's self generated DS-230 last week and the real DS-230 came in the mail yesterday. In the big envelope, there was a single sheet insert called supplement to form OF - 169. This sheet contains a few specific clarifying things such as registering marriages, birth certificates etc.

If contained one item which said:

PASSPORTS: If you are married, your passport should be ammended to reflect your marriage.

Has anyone had to do this? It is *painful* to go to the passport office in India -- all the paperwork is on her maiden name...

Thanks,

KP

Are you referring to the NVC instructions as OF-169? Where does it say that it is OF-169? I have not seen it yet. You only needed to send DS 230 part I and passport's biographical information pages.

[simple_male 1]

I see. It makes sense now. I did not get this page because it is not applicable to our case. Good luck.

[aussiewench 9]

kpathak

If they are instructing that the passport be updated to reflect the marriage then that is what you should do. I can not help you in how this is done in India, but Im sure someone will.

[kpathak 0]

Lorelle -- agreed that is what I need to do. But "how" is the unknown for me still :-). The Passport Office in India is talking about a "new" passport with the new married name (which is diferent than the maiden name).

Has nobody else from India gotten this?

Sigh!!!

KP

kpathak

If they are instructing that the passport be updated to reflect the marriage then that is what you should do. I can not help you in how this is done in India, but Im sure someone will.

[simple_male 1]

Lorelle -- agreed that is what I need to do. But "how" is the unknown for me still :-). The Passport Office in India is talking about a "new" passport with the new married name (which is diferent than the maiden name).

Has nobody else from India gotten this?

Sigh!!!

KP

kpathak

If they are instructing that the passport be updated to reflect the marriage then that is what you should do. I can not help you in how this is done in India, but Im sure someone will.

Please check to see if the old passport can be amended to reflect the married name. Call the Indian Embassy in USA. They might shed some light as well.

[kpathak 0]

Lorelle -- agreed that is what I need to do. But "how" is the unknown for me still :-). The Passport Office in India is talking about a "new" passport with the new married name (which is diferent than the maiden name).

Has nobody else from India gotten this?

Sigh!!!

KP

kpathak

If they are instructing that the passport be updated to reflect the marriage then that is what you should do. I can not help you in how this is done in India, but Im sure someone will.

Please check to see if the old passport can be amended to reflect the married name. Call the Indian Embassy in USA. They might shed some light as well.

AHA!!!! Didn't even think of calling the Indian Embassy in the US. Thanks.

KP