A# typo on Oath Letter

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eccevino

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Hello everyone,

I passed my interview and civics test on Monday (10/1) and will tell you about my interview experience in another post. When my interview was completed, the IO asked me if I would like to be included in a special Oath ceremony occurring this Friday, 10/5. Of course I accepted, and she asked me to sit at the waiting area for a few minutes while they prepare the Oath letter to be hand delivered to me. I waited for only 5-10 minutes and another IO came out to congratulate me on my approval and gave me the Oath letter.

Only after I left the USCIS building I realized that there was an extra number in the middle of my A#. For example, my number is 12345678 and the Oath letter has an extra 9 on it (123495678). My name is correct on the letter. I went ahead and crossed out the extra 9 with a black pen, but then I started thinking...will this cause any problem during the Oath ceremony or any errors on the Naturalization Certificate? Anyone here had a similar experience?

I would appreciate any opinions, suggestions, etc.
 
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For my own application I noticed that the correspondence from the USCIS (Interview Letter, Oath Letter) are missing a middle name. I informed the IO about it and filled out a corrective sheet since I would like my Naturalization Certificate to contain all of my 4 middle names. I'll double-check at the Oath Ceremony whether the Natz Certificate has all first/middle names.

I have prepared a N-565 for the case the Natz Certificate is missing a middle name. I checked the Adjudicator's Field Manual and I found out the following:
(12) Certificate of Naturalization That Contains Incorrect Information.
When you present the Certificate of Naturalization to the applicant at the oath ceremony, you must advise the applicant to review it to be sure that all of the biographic information is correct. Whenever a Certificate of Naturalization has been delivered which does not conform to the facts shown on the application for naturalization, or a clerical error was made in preparing the certificate, an application for issuance of a corrected certificate, Form N-565, without fee, may be filed by the naturalized person. The application must be filed at the USCIS office having jurisdiction over the place of residence of the applicant. See 8 CFR 338.5(a) .

(14) Correcting a USCIS Issued Certificate.
If the certificate was originally issued by USCIS, and the District Director finds that a correction was justified, the necessary correction must be made to the certificate and a dated endorsement made on the reverse of the certificate, over the signature of the District Director and the seal of the Department of Homeland Security. A notation regarding the correction must be placed on the Form N-565, which must be forwarded to the USCIS file. See 8 CFR 338.5(c).
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This means that either the District Director at the Oath Ceremony can mark the correction with a raised stamp on the back of the Certificate [unless paragraph (14) applies only to corrections done at the DO and not at the Oath Ceremony] or I can file for no fee a N-565, ideally at the Oath Ceremony.
 
Thanks, McMahon! Do you know if the A# also appears on the Naturalization Certificate? In my case it's just the A# that appears incorrectly on the Oath letter. My name looks fine, and I do remember at the end of my interview the IO showed me a piece of paper and asked me to review my info, and I think it was going to be used to prepare my Naturalization Certificate. I just don't remember if my A# was also there.
 
Yes the A# appears on the Natz Certificate.

There is a possibility that your Oath Letter was somehow "manually" issued, i.e. the IO just manually entered your A$ and made a typo. If this is the case, the USCIS has the correct information and would print out the Naturalization Certificate with the correct A Number.
 
Just to let you know...all information looked just fine on my Naturalization Certificate, and I guess you're right, the typo was on my Oath letter only because they probably prepared it "offline" and quickly so they could hand deliver it to me.
 
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