How many of you guys had to submit parents' birth certificates?

[tcTTct 37]

Just a quick sanity check on how many of you guys have had requests for both sides' parents' birth certificates because you have the same last name? I know kiki92 didn't have to but pholy did. Non-Viet-Kieus probably don't have this problem

[VinceN 25]

The lady and I have the same last name and we never had to submit such things.

[tcTTct 37]

The lady and I have the same last name and we never had to submit such things.

I was worried they may request for the birth certificates after the interview which may be a problem.

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

Don't more than half of the VN population have the family name "Nguyen"? I know a lot of Vietnamese people, and most of them are Nguyen's. About half of the rest are Tran's. After that, it's a mix.

I'm not Viet Kieu, so it wasn't an issue for us.

[Pohtaytoh 0]

"Phan" here, wife is half chinese (great grand parents on father's side immigrated into vietnam) so she's a "Dang". Wikipedia says "Nguyen" is 40% (I thought it would be more like 70% lol) and "Tran" is 11%

Both our mothers are "Huynh Thi Lan"'s though

Edited April 28, 2011 by Pohtaytoh

[luckytxn 2,264]

It is strange indeed and places an undue burden I think to request this from some but not all. It is in my opinion a stall tactic like when they ask for a timeline or ten year residency and a date to submit later.

[Anh map 2,098]

My recollection is that this request occurs more frequently when you are both from the same town/village/area. But my memory has been known to be foggy at time.