DS-260 NBI Clearance Question

[Trent and Rose 0]

We need to submit a NBI Clearance with the DS-260. We are not currently in the Philippines and Rose's NBI had expired. We ordered an updated one online and they shipped it to a family member. The new NBI was received today but it has Rose's maiden name and marriage status listed as single. ChatGPT says send it to NVC as is. Obviously, that would be our preference rather than a flight back to Manila. What does the brain trust here say?

 

Thank you,

Trent

[Crazy Cat 46,073]

***Thread has been moved to the Philippines regional forum for the PI experts to see since NBI is a Philippines process***

Edited Sunday at 02:07 PM by Crazy Cat

[rbv_shard 62]

On 1/11/2026 at 7:40 AM, Trent and Rose said:

We need to submit a NBI Clearance with the DS-260. We are not currently in the Philippines and Rose's NBI had expired. We ordered an updated one online and they shipped it to a family member. The new NBI was received today but it has Rose's maiden name and marriage status listed as single. ChatGPT says send it to NVC as is. Obviously, that would be our preference rather than a flight back to Manila. What does the brain trust here say?

 

Thank you,

Trent

I don't have your answer but I'm sure someone here can guide you with some additional information:

Did you get married in the Philippines or another country?

Did you get AOM (Advisory on Marriage) from PSA?  If not, maybe they don't have the marriage in their database yet.

Did you list aliases when ordering the NBI report, including maiden and married names?

BTW you have a (nearly empty) timeline for K-1 even though your profile says filing for IR-1/CR-1.
 

[top_secret 2,770]

There's a reasonable chance it would make it through NVC as is and if not, the worse that would happen is they reject it and then you would have to fix it anyway.  So there is not much downside to submitting what she has.  It would probably get documentary qualified.

 

However, US Embassy Manila is generally much more strict than NVC about NBI Clearance names.  So even if it sails through NVC just fine, she almost certainly needs to get a new updated one before the day of her interview.  It MUST include your surname.  USEM would accept it as "single" including her married name with your surname listed as an AKA.  OR as "married" listing your surname as "husband's name". Even if she never used your surname and never plans to, USEM still requires it in the NBI Clearance.