date of birth issue

[linda_adam 1]

hello everyone!!

this my first time here, i see how helpful are the members and how they give great support and advices for each other, and i hope i find answer to my problem.

my husband ( a U.S. citizen) is planning to submit the I-130 form and all the required documents by this week but we have one issue that we are worried about:

there was a difference in date of birth between my previous passport and my birth certificate.

just for explanation:

i had 3 passports in my life until now, in the first passport my date of birth was stated by the year only without the month and the day, this one expired after i used it for 10 years, then in my 2nd passport which i got it in urgent situation to travel with my family out of my home country, they issue it without asking for my birth certificate and as the first one was without month and day, the person in the passports authority just put down a date from his imagination but in the same right year (8 months difference) ,,,( which i did not recognize until i was in the airport- as i received it in the same traveling day), my mistake that i did not change the date even after i reach my destination (as i lived there with my family). after few years i tried to change it in the embassy of my home country: they asked for my birth certificate ( i showed the original i have which is 25 years back issued- they ask me to get a new one from my country as the form of the certificate is no longer acceptable), at that time i was not able to travel to my country and get a new BC. after few months i traveled with that passport to Netherlands as i studied for 2 years ( my visa and student residency was with the wrong birth date as in the passport) but i explained the issue to the university registry office and they accepted my birth certificate for my university registration data.

as soon as i finished school(i left Netherlands- visa ended last august)i travel to my home country and got my original birth certificate in the new forms and canceled the passport with the wrong birth date and issued a new one with the right birth date ( i traveled back to the same country where my family live and i will be there during the waiting time for visa)

my questions are:

do u think this will be a red flag in our case (as the diffidence in date of birth will show up in background check between the submitted birth certificate and the passport i issue the 2 years visa to Europe) ??

do u think we should make copies of the passports and explain the issue in a forward step by include it in the I-130 package??

please advice me , any ideas will be helpful

thanks.

[speedwell 224]

my questions are:

do u think this will be a red flag in our case (as the diffidence in date of birth will show up in background check between the submitted birth certificate and the passport i issue the 2 years visa to Europe) ??

do u think we should make copies of the passports and explain the issue in a forward step by include it in the I-130 package??

please advice me , any ideas will be helpful

thanks.

If you didn't have a US visa (not just an entry/exit stamp for visa waiver travel) in your previous passport, and all the documentation you submit with the I-130 is up to date, I think you are fine. If you did have a US visa in the previous passport, Iwould write on your cover letter that the information you are including corrected a previous error and all is now correct.

[ndu26 114]

from what I undersand , you finally got the last passport with the correct date right? that is a plus. Then as speedwell said, if you neber had any dealings with US immigration with the wrong DOB passport, you shd be fine. They dnt ask you to submit copies of past passports.

But if that is not the case. They will wantan explanation which you could provide by going to the court to swear a statement of what happened now bringing proofs from your previous documents.

[linda_adam 1]

i never had a US visa with the right or the wrong DOB

[visabox 0]

Have you ever apply for US visa before now?