Correcting Date of Birth on Vietnamese Passport and National Identity Card

[Cesar & Duong 1]

My fiancee Duong's passport has an incorrect date of birth due to a clerical error that was made on her national identification card by the local authorities in Vinh Long. Her date of birth on her passport and her national identification card shows as September 15, 1990 but on her birth certificate is May 19, 1990. Is it possible to get a new Vietnamese passport and a new identification card if these two items are not lost? We need to get this corrected before we start using filing out the DS 160. Our approved 129F petition with the incorrect date of birth is on its way to the National Visa Center for further processing. Besides correcting the date of birth and her national identification card should we also get a notarized statement from the local authorities in Vinh Long stating due to clerical error her date of birth is incorrect on her passport and national identification card? Please let me know how we should proceed correcting this.

[BethB 2]

Hi Cesar, I used to work in a consulate, not vietnamese, but maybe they have a similar process.

The best is to go to your closest embassy/consulate bring the birth certificate and any ID that she has, even a copy could help, that way the embassy can start an investigation, to basically make sure that she is the person that she says she is and to confirm the right birth date. Once confirmed, it may take a couple of months, they can issue a new passport with the correct information.

My mom has a similar problem, we are waiting still to get an answer from our consulate.

We were advice by a lawyer to wait for that answer and once we had all the documents ready to send you will need to write a letter explaining to USCIS the situation attaching all the proof, copies of birth certificate and IDs, adding a letter from the embassy is recommended.

[Cesar & Duong 1]

Thank you for the information BethB. I appreciate it. Will reach out to my fiancee Duong about this soon.