Time to Renew Green Card. There's a mistake on the old one...

[Grashoppr 14]

With apologies if I'm in the wrong sub-forum, moderators, please feel free to move this to the proper one.

My 19-year old son is about to renew his Green Card (I became a citizen last year, he prefers to just renew the GC this time around).

He's 6 months from expiration, he can fill in and print the I90 and send it off with payment.

Here's the problem. His existing Green Card has a mistake on the date of birth. It was some years before we noticed it (he was a little kid), so we never changed it. Makes his birthday seem 3 days earlier than it actually is. We actually didn't find the mistake until we got him a SSN and the person there pointed it out.

I went back to the original paperwork and it was the immigration attorney's mistake. Until now it hasn't been an issue, except his drivers' license has the wrong date too because they went by the GC (something that should be fairly easy to correct once the GC is renewed/fixed).

Does anyone foresee a problem when he goes to renew? He has a valid Canadian passport, and a Canadian birth certificate. I think for the original immigration process we had a long-form birth certificate. I cannot seem to find his at the moment (although I have my other child's - not sure where his went :-/ )

Do we point out the existing error, or just file the application to renew and go from there?

Thanks for any insight. This group was awesome when I went through my citizenship journey 18 months ago Hoping for a bit of advice now.

Cheers,
Grashoppr

[Grashoppr 14]

Here's another question. Now that I'm reading up on stuff, should we have renewed his card when he turned 14? The existing card is/was valid for 10 years, there was nothing on there regarding renewing when he was 14. Hopefully this won't be a problem.

My other child is renewing too - she is older (they both got their cards at the same time) - she turned 14 while here too. Hope they don't encounter problems.

Grashoppr

[Anonymous885 44]

My sister has a slightly different problem with her green card. I applied I-90 for my sister last 5 months. I noticed that her middle name is her first name that shows on her green card. I filled the correct name on I-90 and the guy who took my sister's fingerprint on biometric appointment telling her to send a of copy her passport and old green card to some uscis's address.

We are still waiting on her new green card. I hope she can get the correct one.

If he was renewed on his 14th birthday, then he would have to pay 85 dollars for fingerprint instead of 450.

Edited February 22, 2014 by Anonymous885

[Grashoppr 14]

Other than the lower fee (which I'm disappointed we missed out on...) is there any significance to missing that milestone?

Thanks for the info. I'm hoping it's no big deal to correct it.

Grashoppr

[Anonymous885 44]

I dont think there is any problem with that.

I would write a letter to explain the situation including the birth certificate, passport (if you have old passport with the visa, then this is best proof), and any others documents that have the correct his date of birth such as school's transcript or maybe your tax return that has his date of birth?? in the package of I-90.

If you already sent the package I-90, then I would include the receipt number ( NOA1) with all the evidence above and send it to uscis. But you should call them and ask the right address to be sent.

Edited February 22, 2014 by Anonymous885

[Grashoppr 14]

Thanks. Yes I was thinking that a letter of explanation might be helpful. I'll send copies of birth certificate and I'm not sure if I have his old passport or not. His other parent applied for his passport renewal, and I'm not sure if the expired one was returned or not (I always request my expired passport be returned).

I have all of the original immigration paperwork in a box in my attic. Wondering if I should pull that too.

Should he send the form in, or would doing an Infopass to submit the application in person even be doable? We're near ATL and the service center isn't too far away - it's something he could do on his day off if that would be productive. Since he'd have to send the application to Phoenix (I think) then it might not be practical to do that. Just trying to prevent problems before they happen. We haven't sent it in - working on it this weekend to send this coming week.

Edited February 23, 2014 by Grashoppr