Date of Birth Incorrect

[MrsRowe 2]

HI,

I am posting this for a friend of mine. He wants to file for his citizenship however, his greencard has the incorrect birthdate and he never got it corrected. Everything else including passport and birthcertificate has the correct information. What should he do? Can he file for citizenship or does he need to have it corrected first? Help, please???

[Harsh_77 718]

why wait this long?

Had (s)he not seen the card when they received it?

If I am right there should be number on the letter, with the card to report any error on th card.

[MrsRowe 2]

He said he did not really realize it. I think he didn't really know what to do. So, now he is in a predicament. I advised him to make an appointment with USCIS but i wanted to see if anyone had a better idea of what to do.

[NickD 203]

He said he did not really realize it. I think he didn't really know what to do. So, now he is in a predicament. I advised him to make an appointment with USCIS but i wanted to see if anyone had a better idea of what to do.

Ha, can't help but comment about two I-130's for two step children, is two of everything, that I-693 medical expense was a killer not covered by health insurance, but the form is free. Can't say that about the I-485, new rates have really skyrocketed.

So where is the USCIS with Y2K, what a year that was changing from a two digit year to a four digit year, on the LPR card, still using that month-month/day-day/year-year format. Both the residence since, card expires, and date of birth use that format with the two digit year. If the day is number equal to or less than 12, is that the error?

How can anyone say whether that particular IO will make an issue of that anyway? Some may figure that card will be surrendered either the day of he interview or a few years later, again determined by that particular field office ceremony policy.

Insisted on going in with my step daughter for her driver's license renewal, she gets so damned excited about a new piece of paper that she fails to read it. Surer than hell, they made an error, but only took an extra three minutes to correct it. They have a machine that takes your photo and kicks out a laminated card just like your green card. Is a small dumpy office in a small town, but they still have that machine. And a license renewal, well a bit outrageous now that we are sending all of our money to Iraq is still only thirty bucks, was 5 bucks not too long ago.

But with what the USCIS charges and a full years delay for getting a replacement card, how come they don't have those machines in all of there field offices? Same damn machine, only the card would be different. They make mountains out of molehills and everything has to be so difficult. If they have the power to issue something as important as a US certificate, should sure in the hell be able to issue a much weaker document as a LPR card.

They started this I-751 ####### in 1988 two years after Reagan passed new stricter immigration laws, but were doing a very poor job with the AOS that led to lots of fraud, since then, only have been issuing about 140,000 green cards a year. Would have been so much nicer to drive into a field office, show your evidence, and get your ten year card right away instead of sending it off to a service center 2,500 miles away and waiting forever to get that all important card. But yet the field office did have the power to issue an I-551 stamp on your current valid passport or to do an I-94 if you didn't have that passport.

The way they operate just doesn't make any sense. Don't bother your senator or your congressman with these trivial problems, too busy concerned about Iraq. Who gives a big fat #### about Iraq? We have way too many problems here. Now screwing around in Afghanistan when the terrorists moved to Pakistan. Terrorists aren't stupid, but it seems our leaders are.

So why

[antda 13]

HI,

I am posting this for a friend of mine. He wants to file for his citizenship however, his greencard has the incorrect birthdate and he never got it corrected. Everything else including passport and birthcertificate has the correct information. What should he do? Can he file for citizenship or does he need to have it corrected first? Help, please???

MrsRowe-Lol..Yet another example of how incompentent the USCIS is.....Can't they ever get anything date-related right? Sorry to hear that this happened to that friend of yours, and hopefully the can get this sorted out...

Though I don't understand why it took your friend such a long time to figure this out...

Oh well, "better late than never" in this case, I suppose....

You should tell your friend to make an infopass appointment, and get this sorted out in-person.

As well, bring/fill out a replacement green card form (I forgot what number it was and what it was called exactly), but you can find it on the www.uscis.gov website...And when they fill out the form, checkmark box 'D'...error by the USCIS..

And also bring evidence of the correct birthdate too (birth certificate, passport, etc...)

Hopefully they can get it corrected for free too, since it was a USCIS error, and not your friend's...

And yes, they do need the green card before they file for citizenship, so they need that corrected as soon as possible..

If the infopass appointment doesn't work, try contacting the local political representative (senator, congressman, etc...) and maybe they can be of further assistance there...

Hope this helps. Good luck to your friend and good luck on your journey too.

Ant