Applicant doesn't know parent's birthdate for DS-260

[jjjdddlll 4]

Hello,

 

Could anyone recommend the best course of action if an applicant doesn't know the birthdate of one of their parents, which is information asked for in the DS-260? As far as I can tell there isn't much room for explanations, so I'm not sure whether they should make a guess and provide an estimated date, or provide a date that is clearly not accurate (i.e. today's date) so it is obvious that they don't know. I could go into detail, but the applicant definitely doesn't know the date, and there doesn't seem to be a way to obtain it officially (the person was born in 1910–1920 in rural El Salvador). Any advice is appreciated.

 

[Faith38 37]

How old was the mom or dad when he or she was born?wouldnt it be on the chil birth certificate?

[Tine68 2]

From my experiance, if you can´t provide an answer, a pop up window will apear and you can provide an explanation. If not i would wright an email explaining the detail or just put N/a in the spot.

I would NOT put a random Date in there!!!!!!!

[jjjdddlll 4]

On May 9, 2017 at 0:56 AM, Faith38 said:

How old was the mom or dad when he or she was born?wouldnt it be on the chil birth certificate?

 

It's not on the birth certificate unfortunately.

 

On May 9, 2017 at 1:52 AM, Tine68 said:

From my experiance, if you can´t provide an answer, a pop up window will apear and you can provide an explanation. If not i would wright an email explaining the detail or just put N/a in the spot.

I would NOT put a random Date in there!!!!!!!

 

It was a lot easier than I expected and there was simply an option to check "I don't know." Thanks for the replies.