Washington Post on immigration forms
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Re: Washington Post on immigration forms
it's behind a paywall, any chance you could quote the relevant passages?
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It basically says applications are being denied for leaving spaces blank.
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if you file online, from my experience, you can't leave a space blank.
It actually makes sense that if you don't answer the questions that it gets kicked back.
I was ridiculed in another thread for getting the assistance of an attorney for an n400 application but honestly, when I read/hear stories like this it really makes me want to get one. What you don't know absolutely can hurt you.
It actually makes sense that if you don't answer the questions that it gets kicked back.
I was ridiculed in another thread for getting the assistance of an attorney for an n400 application but honestly, when I read/hear stories like this it really makes me want to get one. What you don't know absolutely can hurt you.
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Re: Washington Post on immigration forms
if you file online, from my experience, you can't leave a space blank.
It actually makes sense that if you don't answer the questions that it gets kicked back.
I was ridiculed in another thread for getting the assistance of an attorney for an n400 application but honestly, when I read/hear stories like this it really makes me want to get one. What you don't know absolutely can hurt you.
It actually makes sense that if you don't answer the questions that it gets kicked back.
I was ridiculed in another thread for getting the assistance of an attorney for an n400 application but honestly, when I read/hear stories like this it really makes me want to get one. What you don't know absolutely can hurt you.
This was back in 2019 though.
Last edited by tht; May 27th 2020 at 2:43 pm.
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'Rejection' of a petition for processing and 'denial' of a petition are 2 different things. I don't see asking someone to properly complete the form is a bad thing, although I would recognize the original priority date when the applicant resubmits.
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One of the problems cited is leaving the section blank when a child did not have a middle name, and how N/A has to be inserted. However, an attorney quoted in the article says that could create problems of its own, "There's going to be just hundreds of people processed under the Trump administration who will legally have the middle name "N/A." I think we can all agree with that, having seen some crazy errors with the most basic names.
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.... One of the problems cited is leaving the section blank when a child did not have a middle name, and how N/A has to be inserted. However, an attorney quoted in the article says that could create problems of its own, "There's going to be just hundreds of people processed under the Trump administration who will legally have the middle name "N/A." I think we can all agree with that, having seen some crazy errors with the most basic names.
Also my Nationality as specificed on my green card appears to have been based on reading the copy of my passport, which shows the issuing country as "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" - so my nationality was given as "Irish"!
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Don't know if this will help, but I am able to read it on my phone, but not on my computer.
One of the problems cited is leaving the section blank when a child did not have a middle name, and how N/A has to be inserted. However, an attorney quoted in the article says that could create problems of its own, "There's going to be just hundreds of people processed under the Trump administration who will legally have the middle name "N/A." I think we can all agree with that, having seen some crazy errors with the most basic names.
One of the problems cited is leaving the section blank when a child did not have a middle name, and how N/A has to be inserted. However, an attorney quoted in the article says that could create problems of its own, "There's going to be just hundreds of people processed under the Trump administration who will legally have the middle name "N/A." I think we can all agree with that, having seen some crazy errors with the most basic names.
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This is what happens when I suspect Government bureaucrats who have never done front line work implement a form without asking for feedback and don't include instructions with the form as to leave non applicable boxes blank or put whatever in that box knowing that this form will be used by others to produce other documents. I also suspect that there are cases where a person reading completed forms cannot apply common sense when looking at a box called middle name marked N/A believes that this is the persons actual middle name.
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Re: Washington Post on immigration forms
This is what happens when I suspect Government bureaucrats who have never done front line work implement a form without asking for feedback and don't include instructions with the form as to leave non applicable boxes blank or put whatever in that box knowing that this form will be used by others to produce other documents. I also suspect that there are cases where a person reading completed forms cannot apply common sense when looking at a box called middle name marked N/A believes that this is the persons actual middle name.
There are also very rare names that can cause issues, especially with spellings, compounded by the common American trait of not using block letters when completing forms - something which Mrs P (USC) flat-out refuses to do, saying that it is "unnecessary".