G-325A Beneficiary not sure of father's birth date

[wazzuvius 0]

I already have her signed and notarized form G-325A and we just realized the birth date she put down for her dad may not be correct. However, she's not entirely certain since he's not in her life anymore and left the family when she was at a very young age. She suspects it may be one day off. Since she's not certain, should we just leave it the way it is? Should we include an explanation? We would prefer not to spend the time and money sending a revised form when she's not even certain of the date anyway. I wonder if they actually check those facts.

Thanks!

[baron555 934]

It will be fine. Bring an updated form to the interview.

[samack 79]

I'm the beneficiary and I wasn't able to provide any birth date for my mother or my father (complicated family history. I worried about it going into the process) and our application was approved without any RFEs or explanation from us. I don't know if that was a fluke or if it means they're not really all that concerned with that part, though.

[wazzuvius 0]

Thanks for the speedy replies! Basically, I was just concerned if they actually check and find a discrepancy in the date she provided as opposed to not putting anything at all. At this point we're stuck with the date she put on there. It would seem silly and even unfair but we're talking about the federal government haha. Would they actually issue an RFE if they didn't agree with the info she put in that section?

[Ortolan 381]

If there's a question about it at the interview, she can just tell the truth: she's just not sure but she's submitted the date she thinks it is.

[Hank_ 9,174]

I already have her signed and notarized form G-325A and we just realized the birth date she put down for her dad may not be correct. However, she's not entirely certain since he's not in her life anymore and left the family when she was at a very young age. She suspects it may be one day off. Since she's not certain, should we just leave it the way it is? Should we include an explanation? We would prefer not to spend the time and money sending a revised form when she's not even certain of the date anyway. I wonder if they actually check those facts.

Thanks!

Leave it the way it is, don't bother with a letter of explanation. As the saying goes - Let sleeping dogs lay.

The birth date of her father being correct , or not, isn't a big issue and for sure is not anything to worry about. I would not even bother with a "corrected" G-325A for the interview, it just isn't all that important.

[pch1 64]

You can just write "Unknown"

[naire37 53]

This is more or less common, understandable and not a problem. My husband did not know his father's place of birth, so we just left it blank on the G-325A. Don't sweat it. It is more important that you don't provide 2 conflicting pieces of information on 2 separate forms - this would be a red flag. A consistent blank, or "unknown" is not a red flag.

[khwaidee1 196]

We knew the year for my wife's mother and father as all they could recall was year of the monkey, dog, etc and they had no birth certificates. On all our forms up to naturalization we put 01/01/1938 and 01/01/1941. It never even came up. This is very common in certain parts of the world

[wazzuvius 0]

Thank you all for your help! I'll leave the form as is for both the I-129F and interview.

I agree, it's very trivial and even silly to worry about this. That being said, we're kind of put in a position to worry about this kind of stuff