Fiance's father's name has several different spellings on several documents

[Lily05 0]

Hello everyone, I have a question related to my fiancé's application for the k-1 visa. The issue is that his father's first name has changed over the years, several times due to clerical errors during communism and his father never thought very much of it and let it happen. So this means that his original name, Arven has changed to Arben, and in another document it is Arrben. In our I-129F petition we put his name how it figures in my fiancés birth certificate Arven. However, now that my fiance has to acquire his justice and district court records we are concerned that his father's name will become an issue since it will be different than my fiance's birth certificate. The main question is, will his father's first name cause us any trouble? Thank you in advance for your advice.

[TBoneTX 44,669]

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(You have no VJ timeline, so this answer is in accordance with the content of your message -- you distinguish between the "visa application" and "I-129F petition" and are apparently at the embassy stage. Please advise if this is incorrect.)

The use of Cyrillic and other foreign alphabets can lead to various transliterations in English, and those are typically understood by consular officers. Are you saying that the father's name appears variously in original Albanian documents, and that your fiance must provide these documents? Or, does your fiance have to provide his own justice and district court records, and his father's name is spelled in various ways on those? If the latter, how important is the spelling of the father's name, as long as the fiance's name is consistently spelled?

Either way, could some current Albanian official write a one-paragraph certification letter to say something like "This verifies that Arven/Arben/Arrben Daddyname, date of birth _____, is the same individual. Variances in spelling arose through a series of clerical errors over the years."

If it's easy enough to get the above, pursue it. If it would require moving mountains, why not contact the embassy to ask if it's a big deal, and how this has been handled in the past? See the link for "Embassy Info" atop any VJ page. The embassy may encounter this situation several times a day, and it's no big deal.

Let me know if this is helpful, and let us all know what comes of it!

[Shpresa 5]

Hello everyone, I have a question related to my fiancé's application for the k-1 visa. The issue is that his father's first name has changed over the years, several times due to clerical errors during communism and his father never thought very much of it and let it happen. So this means that his original name, Arven has changed to Arben, and in another document it is Arrben. In our I-129F petition we put his name how it figures in my fiancés birth certificate Arven. However, now that my fiance has to acquire his justice and district court records we are concerned that his father's name will become an issue since it will be different than my fiance's birth certificate. The main question is, will his father's first name cause us any trouble? Thank you in advance for your advice.

I am the USC and my mothers first name is different on all my civil documents. It is Gjuliana on some, Gjulijana on others, and Xhulijana on my marriage certificate. I don't see it being an issue. I used Gjuliana on my application which is how she spells her name currently.

[sebbiesmd 1]

Hello everyone, I have a question related to my fiancé's application for the k-1 visa. The issue is that his father's first name has changed over the years, several times due to clerical errors during communism and his father never thought very much of it and let it happen. So this means that his original name, Arven has changed to Arben, and in another document it is Arrben. In our I-129F petition we put his name how it figures in my fiancés birth certificate Arven. However, now that my fiance has to acquire his justice and district court records we are concerned that his father's name will become an issue since it will be different than my fiance's birth certificate. The main question is, will his father's first name cause us any trouble? Thank you in advance for your advice.

We are currently in typo hell right now with this embassy so make sure you discourse everything and double check everything before you submit.