White-out on G-325a

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Just to add a comment from personal experience . . .

I ended up using white out on several petitions/applications submitted to USCIS and Department of State/Consulates. Mind you, this was a few years ago now, but through the whole USCIS process from K-1 to Naturalization we did not receive a single RFE . While I agree, it is preferable to make sure the information is written down correctly in the first place, still errors happen -in this case, copying over from the 'work sheet' application, I ended up transposing information to the wrong line and the had to change some dates as information had changed between the time I had filled out the form, (eg death of a parent, last visit to US, etc.) and the day they were actually submitted. So circumstantial evidence does support that white out is allowed.

Perhaps for federal employees who represent the Government on contracts they need to be more transparent on their paperwork and instead of hiding their errors, like we do, they have to correct the error but keep it visible in order to ensure there is no concern about 'changes'. Since petitioners and beneficiaries are not under a contract of employment with the government, it appears that they just have to make the information legible. Our signatures are also on the document stating it is correct and it generally goes directly from our hands to USCIS, so there is no one who is going to change it to make it erroneous, except for a rogue adjudicator - which is extremely unlikely to happen.

Regardless, both Gary and Brian have evidence on their sides to show both positions are accurate: USCIS prefers to receive petitions and applications that do not have errors whited out - but they also accept them without a problem.

Edited January 19, 2012 by Kathryn41

[Kathryn41 3,205]

One post has been edited and another deleted to remove personal attacks. You can disagree with each other but you do not have the right to insult or call each other names.

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I can settle, whiteout is allowed. I had so much whiteout on my form in the address section you could literally scratch it off and they accepted it. I was approved for my NOA2 today.