Dating Error with very close interview

[tpeiyn 0]

 A little background information before I ask my question: My husband entered the US as a teenager without inspection. He walked across the Mexican border and has been here continuously since that date. He is a poor historian in general, but he has always maintained that he crossed the border in December when he was 17 (that would be 2008). That date makes perfect sense because I met him in the Spring of 2009 and he was a shy teenager that barely spoke 2 words of English.

 

After a long wait, his IR-1 visa interview is scheduled for February 18 in Ciudad Juarez. Our attorney gave us a list of paperwork to prepare before the appointment. Most are the basic civil documents like birth certificates, but we also needed to obtain "Certificates of Disposition" from when he was arrested for driving without a license. 

 

Of course, he couldn't remember the dates, so I tried to look everything up through our county's public record system. It worked perfectly, but there it was: he received a traffic ticket in May of 2008. You know, 7 months before he arrived in the US!

 

We talked about it and determined it definitely meant he arrived in December 2007 instead of December 2008. He would have only been 16 when he walked across unaccompanied (that ticket was issued before his 17th birthday.)

 

His DS260 and (approved) I601a and every other piece of paper we have filled out at this point list December 2008 as his entry date. We have a phone call scheduled with his attorney later this afternoon, but we are both super stressed at this point and looking for potential answers.

 

Has anyone dealt with a similar problem? Is this something that he is going to be able to handle with a simple explanation? Do you guys think his age at entry will make any difference in how they handle things?