US Citizen filing for siblings overseas, mother's exact day and month discrepencies

[letmein 2]

Dear VJ members,

USC wants to file for I-130 for his siblings overseas. USC and the beneficiary overseas have birth certificates showing the name of the mother establishing sibling relationship. USC went though H1B-GC-USC process and provided date of birth of USC's mother but doesn't remember what he filled in the forms. USC remembers what the year was filled in the forms but doesn't remember day and month.

 

Now filling up I-130, the concern is what to enter in the day and month for mother's DOB. The year will match what was provided to USCIS by USC during his immigration journey. 

 

Thinking to enter the year in I-130 form and submitted a paper application as the online version will force the petitioner to enter some date but I'm thinking the paper version one can enter ??/??/1990 (1990 as an example). Or 01/01/1990 and maybe attached explanation in the additional pages.

 

Mother is deceased, never had a formal birth certificate but has country's ID card (think Pakistan, National ID card) but the date on that may not match what was provided by USC to USCIS years ago!

 

Has anyone gone through this and what would you advise the USC? Please help! Thank you!

[appleblossom 5,473]

2 hours ago, letmein said:

Dear VJ members,

USC wants to file for I-130 for his siblings overseas. USC and the beneficiary overseas have birth certificates showing the name of the mother establishing sibling relationship. USC went though H1B-GC-USC process and provided date of birth of USC's mother but doesn't remember what he filled in the forms. USC remembers what the year was filled in the forms but doesn't remember day and month.

 

Now filling up I-130, the concern is what to enter in the day and month for mother's DOB. The year will match what was provided to USCIS by USC during his immigration journey. 

 

Thinking to enter the year in I-130 form and submitted a paper application as the online version will force the petitioner to enter some date but I'm thinking the paper version one can enter ??/??/1990 (1990 as an example). Or 01/01/1990 and maybe attached explanation in the additional pages.

 

Mother is deceased, never had a formal birth certificate but has country's ID card (think Pakistan, National ID card) but the date on that may not match what was provided by USC to USCIS years ago!

 

Has anyone gone through this and what would you advise the USC? Please help! Thank you!

He can do a FOIA request to get his immigration file and see what date he put. 
 

He’ll need to provide the following - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Visa-Reciprocity-and-Civil-Documents-by-Country/Pakistan.html

 

Edited 9 hours ago by appleblossom

[letmein 2]

1 hour ago, appleblossom said:

He can do a FOIA request to get his immigration file and see what date he put. 
 

He’ll need to provide the following - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Visa-Reciprocity-and-Civil-Documents-by-Country/Pakistan.html

 

Thank you for your reply. I'm aware of the FOIA request but I'm in a mini panic given the current immigration env to file as soon as possible. The FOIA request seems to take a long time, I have not idea what the current times are but internet searches suggest that it's as quick as one would like it to be.

 

Here's what's known:

1. Mother's year of birth is known, supported by her ID card issued by Pakistani authorities when she was alive. The ID card has expired but it does bear her year of birth. It's not in English language.
2. Family Registration Certificate shows her year of birth and doesn't show month and date. Please note this used to be common for people born before 1970 or digitization of records. 
3. The USC sponsor may have provided USCIS during his immigration journey (probably G-325 form) with month and date as well as the year of birth of mother.
4. Now when filling up I-130, if USC provides just the year of birth of mother and leave out the month and day, would this cause RFE at the time of filing I-130?
5. One could request FOIA and find out what's in USCIS records for mother's complete date of birth and then submit correction to already files I-130 form?
   1. What makes it tricky is that there may not be any supporting documentation to corroborate the date and month of the mother's DOB.
6. I thought there was some sort of guidance in the Family Adjudication policy manual ( or was ir foreign service policy manual) about people born before certain year in Pakistan could provide just the year as records were not kept meticulously back then.

 

[appleblossom 5,473]

He can either wait for FOIA and have the dates match, or file now and have them not match. 
 

He’s got ~25-30 years before he’ll need to worry about actually applying for a visa so plenty of time to sort it before then and explain any mistake on the I-130. 

Edited 1 hour ago by appleblossom