Birth certificate question

[shamil 0]

My fiance is in indonesia, and we've already gone through most of the process thanks to the information here rather than outdated official government websites.

I had already submitted the i129f packet a while ago, and the interview at the embassy went well. They asked her to submit her real birth certificate as she did not know she had only a copy. They could have easily ended the interview, but they did not, just asked her to get the real birth certificate and to submit it to them when she could.

 

This is when i found out that her government had ommitted her first name when she went to get a government ID when she was a teenager. Her government bureaucracy screwed up and got rid of her first name. Ever since then her family and friends have referred to her by her middle name which is now her first name and no longer has a middle name. It's the first time i ever heard of an unintentional legal name change. She never bothered to change it back since she never liked her original first name. I also have seen her government ID and passport, and they show what she has told me.

 

Her birth certificate has her first, middle, and last name. Her passport and government ID just have her middle (now her legal first name) and last name. If i would have known this when filling out the I129F, i would have included this information in the "other names" section. She was not being dishonest with me, she's just accustomed to how her name is, and it never ever came up in the years i had known her.

 

Will the embassy deny her because her birth certificate has her original name first, middle, and last name which differ from her government ID and passport?

[tamcloud 92]

How was her name listed on the copy she presented? I'm surprised that didn't reflect the same information as the original. Hopefully, they won't deny it, since all of her other identification reflects what you submitted. I do wonder if there will be a delay in approval if any checks previously done have to be run again using the full name.  Hopefully, there are others with more knowledge that will respond soon. Good luck!

[shamil 0]

On the copy it had her full original name. She says they didn't say anything about her name, just that they wanted a real birth certificate.