Made a typo on my name in the filing of I-130, need help

[karanvir 4]

Hi I just received a letter in relation to my spouse visa stating that I need to confirm that both Karanvir and Kanvir are the same person. I go by Karanvir and looks like that I have made a typo ( not sure where as I had checked everything more than twice before I submitted the application) in my application. I was thinking about just writing an affidavit that I go by the name of Karanvir and that Kanvir is a typo. I plan on providing supporting evidence of my passport and drivers license along with the affidavit to be sent back to USCIS. 

 

I wanted to get feedback from others that just an affidavit stating that the Kanvir is a typo on my part in the application  along with pics of government issued Id's will be sufficient at this point to clarify the questions asked of me by the USCIS? Please see the attached document the USCIS sent me.

 

Thank you for all your help

Edited December 24, 2020 by karanvir

[pushbrk 12,974]

Since it is, in fact, an error, your signed and notarized affidavit saying that is the best you can do.  They will either accept it, make the change, and move forward, or they will deny the petition and you can file again with the correct name.

[karanvir 4]

@pushbrk Thank you for the feedback. Can my application really be denied based on a typo?

[pushbrk 12,974]

1 hour ago, karanvir said:

@pushbrk Thank you for the feedback. Can my application really be denied based on a typo?

Yes.  Please elaborate.  Are you the petitioner or the foreign spouse?  

 

Note that you are calling it a typo.  They can look at it as the wrong name.  To misspell one's own name is a pretty big mistake.  They have a form with one name and documents with a different name.  It's a judgment call on their part.  Such an error (big not small because it's your own name not the name of a company or city etc.) is uncommon enough that I don't have any past experience with how USCIS will deal with this.

 

If you are the foreign spouse, is your name spelled differently on the I-130a than it is on the I-130?

[karanvir 4]

1 hour ago, pushbrk said:

Yes.  Please elaborate.  Are you the petitioner or the foreign spouse?  

 

Note that you are calling it a typo.  They can look at it as the wrong name.  To misspell one's own name is a pretty big mistake.  They have a form with one name and documents with a different name.  It's a judgment call on their part.  Such an error (big not small because it's your own name not the name of a company or city etc.) is uncommon enough that I don't have any past experience with how USCIS will deal with this.

 

If you are the foreign spouse, is your name spelled differently on the I-130a than it is on the I-130?

I am the petitioner filing for my foreign spouse. 

 

I just logged onto the Uscis website in order to see where in the application I misspelled my name, but I do not think I can go back and look at my application that I have filed.  I do not have a recollection of misspelling my name. 

[pushbrk 12,974]

4 hours ago, karanvir said:

I am the petitioner filing for my foreign spouse. 

 

I just logged onto the Uscis website in order to see where ifOn the application I misspelled my name, but I do not think I can go back and look at my application that I have filed.  I do not have a recollection of misspelling my name. 

For others reading this, it is a big mistake not to, print, proof read, and save a copy of everything you file.  Another reason I still recommend filing on paper and by mail.

[karanvir 4]

@pushbrk I can respond to the RFE request via submitting  all of the paperwork online right?

[pushbrk 12,974]

1 hour ago, karanvir said:

@pushbrk I can respond to the RFE request via submitting  all of the paperwork online right?

Submit according to the instructions you received with the RFE.  Never heard of submitting RFE reply to USCIS any other way than on paper by mail or courier.  Not reading and following instructions is what got you in this situation to begin with.  Right?

[karanvir 4]

14 minutes ago, pushbrk said:

Submit according to the instructions you received with the RFE.  Never heard of submitting RFE reply to USCIS any other way than on paper by mail or courier.  Not reading and following instructions is what got you in this situation to begin with.  Right?

You are funny 

 

https://www.visajourney.com/sitesearch/?cx=partner-pub-3407508467788263%3A9725800110&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&q=submitting+rfe+online&sa=Search

 

You should have a read through all of the people who have submitted online! and there is an option to submit the paperwork online on uscis, i was just being extra careful. 

[JKLSemicolon 414]

On 12/24/2020 at 8:25 PM, karanvir said:

I am the petitioner filing for my foreign spouse. 

 

I just logged onto the Uscis website in order to see where in the application I misspelled my name, but I do not think I can go back and look at my application that I have filed.  I do not have a recollection of misspelling my name. 

If you filed the I-130 online, go down to where you see your case in MyUSCIS. There should be three tabs - "Case status", "Case history", and "Documents".

 

Open the "Documents" tab and click on "View case snapshot". That is what it looks like when the online I-130 is transferred to the paper form.

 

Edit: just saw the date of your original post, so you may have already figured this out. Hope it helps others to know that in fact, one of the advantages of filing online is that you have a record of everything that was submitted to USCIS (and everything sent to you) right there on your account.

Edited March 8, 2021 by JKLSemicolon

[karanvir 4]

2 hours ago, JKLSemicolon said:

If you filed the I-130 online, go down to where you see your case in MyUSCIS. There should be three tabs - "Case status", "Case history", and "Documents".

 

Open the "Documents" tab and click on "View case snapshot". That is what it looks like when the online I-130 is transferred to the paper form.

 

Edit: just saw the date of your original post, so you may have already figured this out. Hope it helps others to know that in fact, one of the advantages of filing online is that you have a record of everything that was submitted to USCIS (and everything sent to you) right there on your account.

Thank you! Just a heads up to anyone who may be reading this. I never actually made a mistake in misspelling my name on the documents. I was able to go back to the USCIS and look at all of the paper work that I filled out and there was no misspelling of my name. 

 

I had received my Certificate of Naturalization (COF) a little after high school ( I am 36 now) and the government had misspelled my name. I never really ever used my COF so I overlooked the misspelling of my on COF and just assumed I had misspelled my name on the the application. Luckily for me on the COF there is a signature section,"Complete and true signature of holder", I had written my actual name. So I included a color copy of my COF and circled my signature  of my legal and actual name I have used since birth on the COF Also, I included other picture Id's to prove that indeed the person in question is me. 

 

@pushbrk  so indeed this entire RFE was not because of what you and I intially thought it was. 

[karanvir 4]

4 hours ago, karanvir said:

Thank you! Just a heads up to anyone who may be reading this. I never actually made a mistake in misspelling my name on the documents. I was able to go back to the USCIS and look at all of the paper work that I filled out and there was no misspelling of my name. 

 

I had received my Certificate of Naturalization (COF) a little after high school ( I am 36 now) and the government had misspelled my name. I never really ever used my COF so I overlooked the misspelling of my on COF and just assumed I had misspelled my name on the the application. Luckily for me on the COF there is a signature section,"Complete and true signature of holder", I had written my actual name. So I included a color copy of my COF and circled my signature  of my legal and actual name I have used since birth on the COF Also, I included other picture Id's to prove that indeed the person in question is me. 

 

@pushbrk  so indeed this entire RFE was not because of what you and I intially thought it was. 

The abbreviation should be CON in my last post instead of COF