CSC transfers and FBI name checks

[ridley 0]

Alas. My husband (who is Canadian and has a very common Scottish sort of name) is impossible to google. He had a name hit at his K-1 visa interview, so they fingerprinted him and got him checked out with the FBI. His visa was delayed a couple of weeks back then.

Now, I'm fairly certain we're mired in it again.

[Dr_LHA 3]

Thanks for the zabasearch thing, never heard of that.

My surname picks up myself and a person who lives in Alaska! I wonder if they're a relative.

[no name 1]

I did zaba, none match my hubby!

[sarahsmiles 0]

F**K.

I googled my husband and got a match for someone who is not him...in his home country. It wasn't a problem for the K1...If what rebeccajo says is true, it's a problem if their name matches a USC, not someone in their home country? Was that right?

[LaL 418]

zaba is interesting....

[Dr_LHA 3]

All my old phone numbers are on there and my current work phone. Not my current home one though or cell thankfully!

[WifeOHunkyJohn 2]

What's more interesting is if you do zabasearch.com. If you don't 'regionalize' the search, (ie keep it nationwide, which is what the FBI is doing) zaba says something like 'too many hits to report'.......

Apparently I don't exist

I did a zabasearch and kept it to the 50 states, with my full first name (and married name) and my "known as" name, but it said "No listings for [me] found" in HUGE blue letters.

When I did my full birth name, it says there is 1 person (under 2 listings... very odd) and they live in the state "MD".

So does that mean I'm not actually here?

Edited December 1, 2006 by WifeOHunkyJohn

[rebeccajo 14]

F**K.

I googled my husband and got a match for someone who is not him...in his home country. It wasn't a problem for the K1...If what rebeccajo says is true, it's a problem if their name matches a USC, not someone in their home country? Was that right?

Yes, it's a match to domestic activity.

It doesn't even have to be an exact match.

They jumble the name up, use nicknames, in short they mess about with the name to create 'aliases'.

They also check to a range of birthdates.

[CWR 0]

Wow....that zabasearch is interesting...

There is another woman with my name listed in Georgia and Indiana (seems to be the same person though). She was born 17 years before me and has a different middle name.....but I still wonder whether her existence might have been the reason that it took so long for my approval after the CSC transfer....?

[Keigwyn 1]

No I had never heard of zabasearch either. But I don't exist there, unless I just use my initials.

If I do a google search on my name I get some kid that runs a hacking site for games! hmmmm.

[rebeccajo 14]

Wow....that zabasearch is interesting...

There is another woman with my name listed in Georgia and Indiana (seems to be the same person though). She was born 17 years before me and has a different middle name.....but I still wonder whether her existence might have been the reason that it took so long for my approval after the CSC transfer....?

Well the simple existence of somebody out there with your name isn't a problem.

It's the existence of somebody with your name or a version/alias/nickname/derivative of it, as a subject/victim/material or fact witness/expert/deponent/etcetera of an FBI investigation, contained within a file that must be extracted from one of 265 repositories and then manually verified, then processed and shipped off to USCIS to be placed in your physical file, signed off on by your Adjudicating Officer, approved by his supervisor, and finally passed on to a clerk who orders the production of a greencard.

Just like that.

[Nancy2015 2]

Wow....that zabasearch is interesting...

There is another woman with my name listed in Georgia and Indiana (seems to be the same person though). She was born 17 years before me and has a different middle name.....but I still wonder whether her existence might have been the reason that it took so long for my approval after the CSC transfer....?

Well the simple existence of somebody out there with your name isn't a problem.

It's the existence of somebody with your name or a version/alias/nickname/derivative of it, as a subject/victim/material or fact witness/expert/deponent/etcetera of an FBI investigation, contained within a file that must be extracted from one of 265 repositories and then manually verified, then processed and shipped off to USCIS to be placed in your physical file, signed off on by your Adjudicating Officer, approved by his supervisor, and finally passed on to a clerk who orders the production of a greencard.

Just like that.

You are right. If this person with the same name isn't in the FBI database, you're fine.

I've had 3 last names in my life, one of them is fairly common (2 are very rare), and there is a famous TV start in my hoe country with a last name exactly like mine

[katie_UK 0]

Wow thanks for that website info rebeccajo,

I just went on it and searched my married name, and my maiden name. My married name it found 19 exact matches, (my name, middle name and surname.) It found 49 matches of my initials and then surname e.g. JA Doe.

When I searched my maiden name it found 17 matches of my name, middle and surname, and it found 79 matches of my initials and my maiden name. No wonder I've been waiting 3 months from CSC, not a long time I know, but it makes me wonder how long it'll take now I know there are all these people with my name out there!!

[rebeccajo 14]

Wow thanks for that website info rebeccajo....

You're welcome!