Filing I-130 online vs paper form

[letmein 0]

Hello fine folks of VJ,

I want to start filing for I-130 for siblings and have the usual issues of date and month unknown for my (US citizen) father and mother. Only year of birth is known for them. They are both deceased (if that matters). I've read online that some folks have entered '??/??/YYYY' where YYYY is the known year of birth and it has worked for them. When filing online, the website enforces some valid numbers to be entered for month and day.

 

I'm inclined to submit paper form and enter ??/??/YYYY for both father and mother.

 

What says the VJ wisdom? Thank you!

[Bob in Boston 759]

were they immigrints? Do a freedom of information query on them and find out what they out down for that information. do one onyourdelf if that might have the family tree info too.

[letmein 0]

No parents of the US citizens were never immigrants to US so their birth records wouldn't be found in the US (via FOIA). I was referring to filing a FOIA for the US citizen petitioner so at least he can see what was entered in the I-485 form when he was adjusting status. Having hard time finding any records in personal records at home.

[letmein 0]

Did some digging, as an H1B, I filed for I-485 (Adjustment of status) and submitted Form G-325A, Biographic Information (it's no longer required to be submitted with I-485 now). It used to ask for dates of birth for both parents. I entered full dates of birth for both parents but I never had to submit any proof (parents' birth certificate etc). I don't think I even have a proof of their exact dates of birth except some secondary documents that show just the year of birth.

 

I'm inclined to provide just the year and not month and day when filling up I-130 for siblings. Will this cause any problems? Should I provide the exact DOBs for parents that were entered when I-485 was filed by the US citizen sponsor(me). My hesitation is that it now it's part of the permanent record, so any subsequent submissions may be matched against it.