Error in Marriage Certificate I-485

[Nep 5]

My husband's EB2-NIW I-140 is pending from 7 months. We are going to file I-485 soon. We noticed a mistake in our marriage certificate. We are from Nepal. The certificate is written in both Nepali and English language (in the same certificate). All information is correct in Nepali but our citizenship number and place of birth had been mentioned opposite in the bride and bridegroom section at the bottom of the page. Also, my name has been written as A B (husband's last name) but I have my name as A B in all other official documents. We didn't think this could be an issue until we reached now at the phase of I-485 preparation. One thing that I would like to mention is that, this current marriage certificate has been sent to USCIS before for my change of status from F1 to F2 and F2 was approved without any issue. But this is for adjustment of status and we would like to avoid any possible RFEs. Derivative applicant of NIW can just send marriage certificate without sending other supporting marriage documents but we have that misplaced information in the certificate so wondering what other documents need to be provided. How can we rectify this mistake? Few options that we are thinking:

 

1. Submit new corrected marriage certificate, current marriage certificate, explanation letter and affidavits?

 

2. Submit current marriage certificate, explanation letter and affidavits? 

 

3. Just submit the current marriage certificate and affidavits?

 

4. Who needs to sign the affidavits and important things to consider while making the affidavits?

 

5. What are the things to be kept in mind while making new corrected marriage certificate? 

 

6. Do we need to send other supporting documents such as joint lease, joint utility bills, etc.?

 

Thank you very much for your time and help!

[Chancy 6,233]

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Edited May 12, 2022 by Chancy

[Nep 5]

On 5/11/2022 at 12:43 PM, Chancy said:

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Hi, as I was unaware on which forum to post, I posted in different forums. Thank you for removing the multiple threads

[STO Overland 137]

My suggestion is to get yourself a corrected certificate and take it with you to the interview. If you need to, hand it over to the interviewing officer.

 

We had a similar situation where my surname was incorrectly spelled but we didn't notice until after AOS. Our names were written in cursive, hence it was not obvious that one letter of my surname was incorrect. We were married in Belize so it took almost 4 months to get a corrected certificate. Prior to AOS, my wife had used our incorrect certificate for US passport name change and in the UK for registering the birth of our kids with no issue. We weren't given a RFE at any stage of AOS.

 

[Nep 5]

On 6/3/2022 at 11:56 AM, B52Boozer said:

My suggestion is to get yourself a corrected certificate and take it with you to the interview. If you need to, hand it over to the interviewing officer.

 

We had a similar situation where my surname was incorrectly spelled but we didn't notice until after AOS. Our names were written in cursive, hence it was not obvious that one letter of my surname was incorrect. We were married in Belize so it took almost 4 months to get a corrected certificate. Prior to AOS, my wife had used our incorrect certificate for US passport name change and in the UK for registering the birth of our kids with no issue. We weren't given a RFE at any stage of AOS.

 

Thank you so much for your input! I think we will not have to wait a long time to get the new corrected certificate but the issue we encountered is that the issuing authority now has its stamp changed, municipal ward number changed. I think we need new corrected marriage certificate from the same issuing authority. But now the main issue is, how will USCIS know if we got the corrected certificate from the same authority because now their stamp, ward number are changed. Is the main required thing- the same registration date in the old and new certificate? Could you plese check your old and new certificate and share what things have to be/were consistent/same? Thanks a lot!

[STO Overland 137]

3 hours ago, Nep said:

Could you plese check your old and new certificate and share what things have to be/were consistent/same? Thanks a lot!

Our two certificates are completely different; one is typed, one is hand written. The corrected certificate clearly states that this "is a corrected" marriage certificate. We never handed over the correct certificate at any time because it was never asked for at any time. Throughout AOS and N400, we used the original certificate.

[Verrou 1,906]

i will get corrected first before filing it

[Nep 5]

16 hours ago, B52Boozer said:

Our two certificates are completely different; one is typed, one is hand written. The corrected certificate clearly states that this "is a corrected" marriage certificate. We never handed over the correct certificate at any time because it was never asked for at any time. Throughout AOS and N400, we used the original certificate.

Thank you so much for the reply! We did try to get corrected marriage certificate but the issuing authority now has its stamp changed, municipal ward number changed so my husband thought a lot that USCIS would be more confused if the issuing authority is the same or not and he decided to just send explanation letter for now with our passport copies attached which shows our correct information of citizenship number and place of birth which had been exchanged in our marriage certificate. We submitted our application few days back in June 3rd. 

[Nep 5]

3 hours ago, Misscloud said:

i will get corrected first before filing it

Only thing we can do now is wait for the RFE if they think they would require it, we are really hoping that our explanation letter regarding the clerical error would be sufficient for them. We did try to get corrected marriage certificate but the issuing authority has its stamp changed, municipal ward number changed so my husband thought a lot that USCIS would be more confused if the issuing authority is the same or not and he decided to just send explanation letter for now with our passport copies attached which shows our correct information of citizenship number and place of birth which had been exchanged in our marriage certificate. I really wanted to wait sometime to solve this issue, get a corrected certificate and then file but my husband was too stressed and wanted to submit everything and get done with submitting the file. We will try to get a new corrected marriage certificate but we don’t know what to do exactly because the certificate issuing authority itself has its information changed. Not sure if we can get a new corrected certificate from ministry of home affairs or some other ministry who does provide the certificate rather than from our local issuing authority. We submitted our application few days back in June 3rd.