Taiwan K1 filers -- Chinese Mandarin Names

[EatBulaga 315]

Hello Taiwan K1 visa filers,

Looking back at the I-129F filed and currently in waiting for NOA2, in the space for "Other Names Used", I did not type in the Chinese-Mandarin name for me or my beneficiary. Should I file a update to USCIS? What is the procedure to update such information? I'm sweating now...Thanks.

 

Edited June 19, 2021 by EatBulaga

[SalishSea 17,827]

2 hours ago, EatBulaga said:

Hello Taiwan K1 visa filers,

Looking back at the I-129F filed and currently in waiting for NOA2, in the space for "Other Names Used", I did not type in the Chinese-Mandarin name for me or my beneficiary. Should I file a update to USCIS? What is the procedure to update such information? I'm sweating now...Thanks.

 

@Lucky Cat may know the answer to this one…..

[Crazy Cat 41,845]

It appears, to me, that the only section which requires Chinese characters is in items 49-50.   I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[EatBulaga 315]

6 hours ago, Lucky Cat said:

It appears, to me, that the only section which requires Chinese characters is in items 49-50.   I wouldn't worry about it.

 

My fiancee is a Filipina OFW in Taiwan. A Chinese-Mandarin name was assigned to her for the Alien Residence Card, which I included in the I-129F. I totally overlooked the Native Alphabet part in the I-129F, even though Chinese-Mandarin is not her Native Alphabet. Philippines Tagalog uses the English alphabets, but her Chinese-Mandarin name is an "Other Name Used". I'm afraid that this might come up in the interview at AIT in Taiwan? What is the procedure to update the I-129F after it is sent in? Thanks.

 

Edited June 20, 2021 by EatBulaga

[EatBulaga 315]

54 minutes ago, EatBulaga said:

My fiancee is a Filipina OFW in Taiwan. A Chinese-Mandarin name was assigned to her for the Alien Residence Card, which I included in the I-129F. I totally overlooked the Native Alphabet part in the I-129F, even though Chinese-Mandarin is not her Native Alphabet. Philippines Tagalog uses the English alphabets, but her Chinese-Mandarin name is an "Other Name Used". I'm afraid that this might come up in the interview at AIT in Taiwan? What is the procedure to update the I-129F after it is sent in? Thanks.

 

Okay. I'm freaking out a little.

I did some research, and one immigration lawyer article suggested to write a letter to USCIS along with the case number to correct the mistake. However, it is not guaranteed that the letter will be accepted. 

 

Another possibility is that the USCIS catches the mistake and sends an RFE.

 

The third possibility is that the form gets rejected outright, and we have to start the process over with the filing fee again.

 

The last possibility is to hope the mistake is overlooked or considered not serious.

 

The only place that this might bite us is with the Taiwan Police Report, which may use the Chinese-Mandarin name. The interviewer might catch it and reject it for thinking we are purposely being deceptive with the background check name, by not listing it which we are not.

 

Oh gosh...has anyone else had similar situation before with the Chinese-Mandarin names on the forms?

 

 

Edited June 20, 2021 by EatBulaga

[EatBulaga 315]

1 hour ago, EatBulaga said:

Okay. I'm freaking out a little.

I did some research, and one immigration lawyer article suggested to write a letter to USCIS along with the case number to correct the mistake. However, it is not guaranteed that the letter will be accepted. 

 

Another possibility is that the USCIS catches the mistake and sends an RFE.

 

The third possibility is that the form gets rejected outright, and we have to start the process over with the filing fee again.

 

The last possibility is to hope the mistake is overlooked or considered not serious.

 

The only place that this might bite us is with the Taiwan Police Report, which may use the Chinese-Mandarin name. The interviewer might catch it and reject it for thinking we are purposely being deceptive with the background check name, by not listing it which we are not.

 

Oh gosh...has anyone else had similar situation before with the Chinese-Mandarin names on the forms?

 

 

Okay...still freaking a little...

But technically, we are in the right because we completed the I-129F algorithmically correct.

 

First, I could not get the I-129F form to accept Chinese-Mandarin characters in the "Other Names Used" textbox ("Enter alpha characters only" or "Allows only letters, space and hyphen"), so we can not input Mandarin character name there.

 

Second, although the I-129F "Her Native Alphabet" textbox accepts Chinese-Mandarin characters, my fiancee's "Native Alphabet" is Tagalog which uses English alphabet, so technically we are not required to input the Mandarin character name there either.

 

However as previously mentioned, Taiwan Police Report may use the Chinese-Mandarin name, so we hope that the reviewer or interviewer recognizes the technicality that nowhere in the I-129F were we required to input the Chinese-Mandarin name for a Filipina in Taiwan.

 

Does anyone know if the DS-160 form has the same technicality? Or if DS-160 has a different algorithmic input textbox requiring the Chinese-Mandarin name for a Filipina in Taiwan? Or will the interviewer confuse the technical differences between the I-129F and the DS-160? 

 

I think to be on the safe side, I hope there is a note area in the DS-160, where I can maybe point out the technicality of the I-129F so that this can not come back to bite us?

 

Edited June 20, 2021 by EatBulaga

[Crazy Cat 41,845]

9 hours ago, EatBulaga said:

I'm afraid that this might come up in the interview at AIT in Taiwan? 

I wouldn't worry about it.