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(His brother, Anthony, posted this on Facebook and I thought I'd share here. Anthony and I worked together for about 4 years.) :)

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Unlike the boy named Sue, this man cannot blame his parents.

By Alison Leigh Cowan, NYT

After he came to America from Korea more than three decades ago, Jang Do wanted what many immigrants have always wanted: to fit in. So he decided to Americanize his name. But at age 11, still fuzzy on the vernacular, he took an interesting tack.

First he turned "Jang" into "John." Then, he talked his family into adding an "e" to their last name. He was concerned, he said, about razzing and wanted to make sure it would be pronounced like the "do" in "tae kwan do" and not the "do" in "hairdo."

He has been John Doe ever since.

Airport security grills him every time he flies. "I have to sit in the office," he said. "Every time." Landlords and election inspectors view him quizzically, and prospective dates need more than a little assurance that he's not hiding a dark past.

"I say my name is John Doe and they say, 'No, what's your real name?' and I pull out my ID," he said.

Now a 40-year-old software programmer with a degree from Carnegie Mellon, he lives and is registered to vote on the Upper West Side, after short stints living in the San Francisco Bay area and abroad. He said the man who holds the lease to his apartment was first "incredulous about my name.'' But references were checked, and the wire with the deposit arrived, at which point, he said, the landlord called back and said: "I guess you're real. Welcome to New York.''

Mr. Doe is hardly the first person to contend with such issues. The name is a centuries-old legacy of the English legal system where John Doe was often used as a stand-in for the real name of a witness who sought to protect his identity.

John Doe of Alpharetta, Ga., who died in 2006, was a loan officer who reported that medical personnel kept popping in on him when he was hospitalized, expecting to find a publicity-shy celebrity in his room.

New York State also has its share of John Does. New York City's Department of Records shows one John Doe of Brooklyn, who married Frances P. Worth in 1885 [pdf]. Ancestry.com lists a World War I draft card [pdf] for another New Yorker named John Doe on Avenue B.

Voter registration records show seven John Does currently on the rolls in New York State in addition to Mr. Doe, who is a Democrat.

For each John Doe, of course, dating poses its own challenges, what with the propensity for people these days to Google their suitors.

"I date mostly Korean women, so I explain it's a rare Korean last name,'' Mr. Doe said, noting that "Do" in Korean is derived from the word for "path."

But will his new bride in America be happy to endure the snickering when they check in to their honeymoon suite as "Mr. and Mrs. John Doe?''

"That's the biggest joke, that I have to marry a Jane Doe,'' he said, "Can you imagine our signing in at a hotel as John and Jane Doe? 'Yeah, buddy.'''

His parents avoided that problem, embracing the names James and Gloria Doe when they became citizens. As did his younger brother Kwang, who selected "Anthony" as his new name, paying homage to a famous Roman. "Something to do with Mark Antony," Mr. Doe explained.

He says he has no regrets about his own choice. But he confesses he sometimes likes to break the mold by using his middle initial, H., for Hyun, "to give myself a little character.''

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/...yer-could-love/

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Good story! :)

Don't just open your mouth and prove yourself a fool....put it in writing.

It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out, the uglier everything seems.

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thanks brother stevie..it is a good story

Peace to All creatures great and small............................................

But when we turn to the Hebrew literature, we do not find such jokes about the donkey. Rather the animal is known for its strength and its loyalty to its master (Genesis 49:14; Numbers 22:30).

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lol nice article

Timeline:

Sent in I-130 form: 01/29/09

Interview Date: 11/08/09 (APPROVED!)

Visa in Hand: 11/12/09

POE: 01/30/10 (!!!!) at JFK Airport in NYC... can't wait!

Got the green card maybe 8 weeks after 01/30/10...

TBC....

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LOL that's hilarious!! I'd even be willing to change my name to Jane for something like that!!

K-1 timeline

Sent I-129f Dec. 29, 2008

Received NOA Jan. 10, 2009

NOA2 email sent April 16, 2009, APPROVED

Interview in Vancouver, June 23, 2009 APPROVED!!!!!!!!!!

Wedding, September 19, 2009, South Carolina!!

AOS

Mailed package to Chicago, Oct. 22, 2009

NOA hard copies Nov. 3, 2009

RFE Nov. 17, 2009

Finally mailed back RFE December 15, 2009

Case transferred to CSC January 7th 2010girlfreuya.gif

EAD and AP Approved, cards sent January 8th, 2010!!

AOS approved February 9th 2010 smiley-happy093.gif

Welcome letter and GC received February 16th, 2010

Done with USCIS until 11/08/11

ROC

Sent 1-751 to Vermont Service Center November 18th 2011

NOA November 23, 2011

Biometrics December 23, 2011

RFE Dated Aug. 17; received Aug. 20th

mailed off RFE end of Oct.

Received Email stating card has been ordered Dec. 4

Received Email stating card should arrive within seven days; Dec 6

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