Correcting a submitted form

[phirephly 0]

I screwed up one of the dates in my wife's G-325A attachment. For her foreign address for more than a year, I accidentally put the end date two months past when it really was, which conflicts with the place she lived after that. It's an honest mistake; I wasn't trying to mislead them or anything. I don't know if they'll even notice it or care... but I do want to alert them to the mistake so it can be corrected before they find it and cause us delay. And I definitely don't want to be denied because of my mistake I was trying to look aroud the USCIS site to see if there's any procedure for submiting corrections to pending forms and didn't find much. I wasn't turning up anything useful in my searches here either. Hopefully that just means that something like this is rare... but does anyone know what you would do to submit corrections for a pending submission? Would I just send a letter to my SC citing the receipt number and the corrections to add to my packet? Would it be better to just redo that whole attachment and have them replace it in my packet? Do I just wait fo rthem to mail me and tell me that my packet doesn't make sense? Don't know. Thanks for your help.

[aussiewench 9]

Here's what I would do.........I would wait to get your receipt number when it has been entered into the system. You may get an RFE.....you may not. Have noted members receiving RFE's for incorrect or gaps in timeframes. If you get an RFE I would then send the corrected attachment and if you dont get an RFE with it I would call National Customer Service Center on 1800-375-5283. They may correct it over the phone but I hazard a guess not. They may suggest emailing the correction or mailing the correction to your service center. Im inclined not to give a Conof any reason to delay issuance of a visa (unlikely but always possible)if it gets to embassy without it being noted and corrected. Biographical information on the G-325A is used for security checks.

Edited February 18, 2006 by aussiewench

[phirephly 0]

Here's what I would do.........I would wait to get your receipt number when it has been entered into the system. You may get an RFE.....you may not. Have noted members receiving RFE's for incorrect or gaps in timeframes. If you get an RFE I would then send the corrected attachment and if you dont get an RFE with it I would call National Customer Service Center on 1800-375-5283. They may correct it over the phone but I hazard a guess not. They may suggest emailing the correction or mailing the correction to your service center. Im inclined not to give a Conof any reason to delay issuance of a visa (unlikely but always possible)if it gets to embassy without it being noted and corrected. Biographical information on the G-325A is used for security checks.

ok. I think i'm a little more confused, though. You're saying to wait and see if they catch it and request me to fix it.. if not, then to make sure that I fix it myself before it gets to the embassy. The only time that I'll be assured that I'm not going to get an RFE is when the USCIS approves it and sends me the NOA2 which tells me that it's being sent to the embassy, which means that it's too late to fix it at the USCIS, right? So if I do get an RFE for that, then it would be ok... but if I don't, it could slip over the embassy with me missing my chance to fix it? I probably want to avoid an RFE for this if I can too 'cause I don't think she has much (if any) evidence of living in these places... they weren't hers (so no lease or anything), and i'm not even sure if the utilities were under her name or someone else's (so if anyone has the old bills, it wouldn't be her). I totally agree with you that avoiding causing delay is to be avoided... it's not like they're moving very fast on their side! haha. So maybe I should call them on tuesday? thanks aussie. ttyl,

mich

PS - thanks for including the number to call in your post.

Edited February 18, 2006 by phirephly

[phirephly 0]

reporting back what I found...

I called the Customer Service Center and talked to a lady that told me that they can't fix any of that stuff (the G-325A stuff). It sounded like she could fix a few minimum things on the petition (I-130) itself, but not the other docs. What she recommended doing if i wanted to pursue it was to write a letter explaining my mistake and make the corrections. I don't know if this will help anyone, but she asked more than a few times how I noticed the mistake. Perhaps she was trying to clarify if I had received an RFE, but I told her each time that I noticed it myself when I was reviewing the document. So it almost felt like she was trying to get me to say that I was trying to do something wrong or something (which I'm not). So. hi-ho hi-ho, it's writing the service center I go. They haven't even touched my petition yet, so at least there won't be anyone confused in the middle of the process.

[aussiewench 9]

Thats what I thought would happen with calling them. Just write the letter then outlining the corrections, adding how you were reviewing the forms and apologising for not having done this prior to submission That should stop any further questions/queeries from them about the corrections. Dont be tempted to send in a new form with the corrected info as that could cause more confusion and I do remember reading somewhere about how should not send resubmissions unless requested to do so, I just cant find it again right now. That is why the do RFE's for corrections. All the best phirephly...keep us updated aye....its helpful to all, knowing what happens in all these situations.

Lorelle

[phirephly 0]

thanks for the resubmission tip. i was actually going to send a letter with replacement attachments for the form (with correct information!) and let them just replace it in the original packet if they so elected, but if that would just confuse them, then yeah... i'll have to just make sure that i write the letter well enough that it will be clear enough on its own in case they add that to my packet as well.

[aussiewench 9]

Yeah I reckon I would just do it in a letter. Then perhaps call them back to see if they have updated any pertinent information in the system. The letter would then just stay with your file for reference. Take a copy of it too prior to sending...note also the date they received as well. Just in case anything does try and come back and bite you in the bum. Not saying it will but always better to cover your a$$

edited for damm spelling

Edited February 23, 2006 by aussiewench

[zyggy 9]

Yeah I reckon I would just do it in a letter. Then perhaps call them back to see if they have updated any pertinent information in the system. The letter would then just stay with your file for reference. Take a copy of it too prior to sending...note also the date they received as well. Just in case anything does try and come back and bite you in the bum. Not saying it will but always better to cover your a$$

edited for damm spelling

You can always wait to change it at the consulate. They'll ask you if there's anything that needs changing. For something minor like that, I think that would be the best way.

[aussiewench 9]

Yeah I reckon I would just do it in a letter. Then perhaps call them back to see if they have updated any pertinent information in the system. The letter would then just stay with your file for reference. Take a copy of it too prior to sending...note also the date they received as well. Just in case anything does try and come back and bite you in the bum. Not saying it will but always better to cover your a$$

edited for damm spelling

You can always wait to change it at the consulate. They'll ask you if there's anything that needs changing. For something minor like that, I think that would be the best way.

It may appear minor but is it? First post there appeared only one error on the G-325A...further down there appeared to be more on the I-130. We dont really know how many corrections need doing. If the G-325A is as what many prior posts have stated, really not important, then one would think making corrections to that over the phone, as was said could be done with the I-130, seems to contradict that. I have always been of the belief that the G-325A is very important as it is what is sent out to the various departments for any security checks and/or field investigations. Why not correct any error early in the piece on any documents, when it can be done, as opposed to waiting till the petition process is complete and at Embassy.

Lorelle

Edited February 23, 2006 by aussiewench

[Bruce and Han 0]

Yeah I reckon I would just do it in a letter. Then perhaps call them back to see if they have updated any pertinent information in the system. The letter would then just stay with your file for reference. Take a copy of it too prior to sending...note also the date they received as well. Just in case anything does try and come back and bite you in the bum. Not saying it will but always better to cover your a$$

edited for damm spelling

You can always wait to change it at the consulate. They'll ask you if there's anything that needs changing. For something minor like that, I think that would be the best way.

I am going through a similar situation, I had made an error on the I-129F. I had inadvertently put my fiancee's birthday wrong. I recieved the NOA2 with no RFE. The consulate recieved the petition and sent my fiancee packet 3. My fiancee discovered the error. I had only made the error on the I-129F but the G325A form had the correct birthday. I then decided to send a short and sweet email to the consulate explaining the error and appoligizing for the discrepency. They had sent me a reply saying:

Thank you for your information. We have fowarded your email to the Immigrant Visa Unit.

Sincerely,

Info Unit Staff

Consular Section

U.S. Consulate General HCMC

My guess is that they will redo name checks using the correted birthday and also make the change in the database.

When you write the letter you should include the following,

Applicants name, Date of birth, Address, phone number and petitioners name.

Good luck to you. I will post back what my results of this error turn out to be.

[phirephly 0]

It may appear minor but is it? First post there appeared only one error on the G-325A...further down there appeared to be more on the I-130. We dont really know how many corrections need doing. If the G-325A is as what many prior posts have stated, really not important, then one would think making corrections to that over the phone, as was said could be done with the I-130, seems to contradict that. I have always been of the belief that the G-325A is very important as it is what is sent out to the various departments for any security checks and/or field investigations. Why not correct any error early in the piece on any documents, when it can be done, as opposed to waiting till the petition process is complete and at Embassy.

Lorelle

Howdy... sorry for my lack of clarity above. The mistake that I made was in the attachment to the G325-A (those addresses in the Philippines are way too long for the forms). I accidentally overstated the length of her last address abroad by two months. However, where it asks you to list all the places you've lived for the last 5 years, I put it right. So I wanted to make sure I correct this so it's clear to them what's what and where she actually was for those two months.

There are no mistakes in my I-130. What I was trying to say was that when I called the hotline, that's the only thing that she told me she could correct. She said that she couldn't correct the G-325A information. Hope this helps clear the discussion up a bit Thanks for all your help. ttyl,

mich

[The_dip_sticks 0]

My inlaws birthdays were not on my husbands G325A, because he was not sure exactly of the dates. By the time he was able to confirm the dates the lawyer had alreayd sent off the petitons and had received the NOA1 for the I130 and the I129f. I want to write a letter expaling the bithdate issue so they can up date my husbands biographic data sheet. To what address do I have to send this too? UCIS? MSC or CSC?

[doc_cute 0]

It may appear minor but is it? First post there appeared only one error on the G-325A...further down there appeared to be more on the I-130. We dont really know how many corrections need doing. If the G-325A is as what many prior posts have stated, really not important, then one would think making corrections to that over the phone, as was said could be done with the I-130, seems to contradict that. I have always been of the belief that the G-325A is very important as it is what is sent out to the various departments for any security checks and/or field investigations. Why not correct any error early in the piece on any documents, when it can be done, as opposed to waiting till the petition process is complete and at Embassy.

Lorelle

Howdy... sorry for my lack of clarity above. The mistake that I made was in the attachment to the G325-A (those addresses in the Philippines are way too long for the forms). I accidentally overstated the length of her last address abroad by two months. However, where it asks you to list all the places you've lived for the last 5 years, I put it right. So I wanted to make sure I correct this so it's clear to them what's what and where she actually was for those two months.

There are no mistakes in my I-130. What I was trying to say was that when I called the hotline, that's the only thing that she told me she could correct. She said that she couldn't correct the G-325A information. Hope this helps clear the discussion up a bit Thanks for all your help. ttyl,

mich

even i had same prob i didnt put my med school adreess coz it was my permanent address but i think i had no prob my g-325a form was accepted because my permanent address was my home address

but in form ds-230 i am going to write all addresses where i was staying despite their will be more confusion i am going to put all temporaray addresses too

can i ask 1 thing what is an Rfe ?

[mendeleev 68]

RFE = Request For Evidence -- a written request by USCIS for evidence to support an item in a petition.