Different place of birth on the Birth Certificate and the Passport. How will it affect our immigration case?

[TatevQA 0]

Hello dear community,

 

I am currently stuck in a pickle. We preparing the documents for the family immigration. The principal applicant's place of birth on the birth certificate (BC) doesn't match the one in the passport.

 

How it happened:

Applicant's original BC had a mistake in the parent's surname. As this parent is also the petitioner for family reunion we applied to fix this mistake. While the name was changed, the authority also updated the city of birth. Since all existing documents were based on the old BC they all have the original place of birth from the old document.

 

Is this a big issue? Did someone experience a similar problem? What did you do?

Thanks in advance!

[Verrou 1,962]

24 minutes ago, TatevQA said:

Hello dear community,

 

I am currently stuck in a pickle. We preparing the documents for the family immigration. The principal applicant's place of birth on the birth certificate (BC) doesn't match the one in the passport.

 

How it happened:

Applicant's original BC had a mistake in the parent's surname. As this parent is also the petitioner for family reunion we applied to fix this mistake. While the name was changed, the authority also updated the city of birth. Since all existing documents were based on the old BC they all have the original place of birth from the old document.

 

Is this a big issue? Did someone experience a similar problem? What did you do?

Thanks in advance!

can u give the example. what stated on the original BC and then what stated on the passport?

is it completely different town? if yes, how it possible?

[TatevQA 0]

Thanks for your reply!

So the place of birth on the certificate is Gyumri, Armenia and n the passport - Yerevan, Armenia. 

 

I don't know how this really happened. I guess either the original was completely wrong or the new version contains a mistake. 

And at this point the applicant is no longer in Armenia, but back in his country of residence and we were about to submit the DS-260s and the documents on the ceac website.