Jim Schlegel

When I spelled my fiancee's name for our attorney, I used the Russian K
instead of the English C (her name is Victoria). I don't remember why I
did this, but that is in the past now.

In her passport she has the English spelling with the C. Will this cause
her any problems at her interview on 29 Oct at the Moscow US Embassy?

We are both getting VERY excited as this day draws closer. I have our
plane tickets to return to Florida on 17 Nov. That gives us almost 3
weeks to get her visa, get packed, and say our good-byes to friends and
family. (I fly over on the 5th).

When we started we thought this day was SO far away it would never
arrive. So for all you still waiting at a Service Center or NVC or just
starting down this path, be patient. Your day too shall come!

Jim S

Jim Schlegel

Can ANYONE help me with this question?

On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 08:25:35 -0400, jim schlegel wrote:

    > When I spelled my fiancee's name for our attorney, I used the Russian K
    > instead of the English C (her name is Victoria). I don't remember why I
    > did this, but that is in the past now.
    >
    > In her passport she has the English spelling with the C. Will this cause
    > her any problems at her interview on 29 Oct at the Moscow US Embassy?
    >
    > We are both getting VERY excited as this day draws closer. I have our
    > plane tickets to return to Florida on 17 Nov. That gives us almost 3
    > weeks to get her visa, get packed, and say our good-byes to friends and
    > family. (I fly over on the 5th).
    >
    > When we started we thought this day was SO far away it would never
    > arrive. So for all you still waiting at a Service Center or NVC or just
    > starting down this path, be patient. Your day too shall come!
    >
    > Jim S

jeffreyhy

Jim,

No one can accurately predict for you what some consular officer will say about the spelling of your fiancee's name. But since there are only 2 choices, yes there will be a problem or no there will not be a problem, I've got a 50% chance of being correct if I guess so I'll give it a try...

No this will not be a problem.

Mrtravel

Transliteration issues should not be a problem.
In fact, I believe the Russian passport uses a transliteration to French
since French is the language of state (look at the French in your own
passport)

I applied using the name as spelled in my wife's passport.
The consular people in Moscow used a different spelling when they
transliterated. The passport said "Julia", I filed I-130 with "Julia".
She put "Julia" on the DS forms for CR-1.
State changed it to "Yulia".
On arrival in the US, she had INS change it to "Julia" for the green card.


Oh yeah, for new people.

Transliteration - like translation, but with dissimilar alphabets
DS - Department of State
CR-1 - Conditional Resident (I think it is a different number, like
CR-6, if you adjust)

Jim Schlegel

MrTravel,

Thank you SO MUCH for the reply! I (actually we) are so worried at my
stupidity that it would slow down the process even more! It is good to
know we MIGHT not have any problems with it.


On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 13:49:14 -0400, mrtravel wrote:

    > Transliteration issues should not be a problem. In fact, I believe the
    > Russian passport uses a transliteration to French since French is the
    > language of state (look at the French in your own passport)
    >
    > I applied using the name as spelled in my wife's passport. The consular
    > people in Moscow used a different spelling when they transliterated. The
    > passport said "Julia", I filed I-130 with "Julia". She put "Julia" on
    > the DS forms for CR-1.
    > State changed it to "Yulia".
    > On arrival in the US, she had INS change it to "Julia" for the green
    > card.

Matthew Udall

What did your attorney say about how to handle this issue with the Consulate, and whether or not it would be a problem? I've had something similar happen once (If memory serves me correctly, my petitioner got his fiancée’s first, middle and last name wrong), and the Consul in Moscow did have a problem with it (but we fixed that).

Chessiet

"my petitioner got his fiancée’s first, middle and last name wrong)"

Wow, I'd kill my fiance if he got ANY of them wrong

How long did these people know each other before getting engaged? It seems strange that he would have so many errors with her name.

Jim Schlegel

Our attorney asked if it was possible for her to have her passport
changed to the same as on the petition. She said there is no chance of
that happening. The attorney (assistant actually) said he didn't think
it would be a big problem and they would ask her how she wanted it on her
visa.

I spoke with the $1.65 per hour visa information line and the woamn said
she did not think it would create a problem and placed a note in my
fiancee's case file. Of course this is a Russian contract worker and not
a case office in the Consul, so I don't know if I can take her word or
not. She said for my fiancee to speak to the office about it during her
interview.

Any suggestions or reassurances would be GREATLY apprecitated! :-)


On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 18:04:34 -0400, Matthew Udall wrote:


    > What did your attorney say about how to handle this issue with the
    > Consulate, and whether or not it would be a problem? I've had something
    > similar happen once (If memory serves me correctly, my petitioner got
    > his fiancée’s first, middle and last name wrong), and the Consul in
    > Moscow did have a problem with it (but we fixed that).
    >
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