Question on Name Checks for AP

[thedude6752000 360]

I know I and my wife are a long time from the interview, but since I have married a Muslim with the most common Muslim last name in India (and I am white), I am fairly sure that we are walking talking AP bait.

So I wanted to ask, her first name is common too, but it is actually more common as a guy's name than a girls. If you do a google search for her full name you get tons of guys and no girls. Do the name checks take into account gender? IE are the going to check to make sure that she's not a million other people who are men? Or will they check the name even if it belongs to someone of the opposite sex?

[Bugs 455]

I know I and my wife are a long time from the interview, but since I have married a Muslim with the most common Muslim last name in India (and I am white), I am fairly sure that we are walking talking AP bait.

So I wanted to ask, her first name is common too, but it is actually more common as a guy's name than a girls. If you do a google search for her full name you get tons of guys and no girls. Do the name checks take into account gender? IE are the going to check to make sure that she's not a million other people who are men? Or will they check the name even if it belongs to someone of the opposite sex?

Yes, they will use other info such as birthdate, sex, place of birth, etc, to narrow it down to her.

[thedude6752000 360]

Thanks. Besides religion and name, what are other things that cause AP?

[Bugs 455]

Thanks. Besides religion and name, what are other things that cause AP?

Depends on what stage you are at in the process, as AP can occur at the domestic or embassy stage. Usually background checks and/or additional documentation or proof needed.

[thedude6752000 360]

I mean after the interview, at the embassy.

[Bugs 455]

I mean after the interview, at the embassy.

AP is a general term to mean that the process from the interview to the issuance of the visa is not over - and this delay can cover anything you stated in this thread to what I stated - from more scrutinized background checks due to things not specifically related to her case (those from middle east countries often get more scrutiny, as do high fraud areas), red flags that need more research, cross-checking and/or checking references put on applications, the need for more bona-fide relationship evidence, to misssing documents. Edited November 16, 2013 by Leon & Mylen