help!!!! n-400 and name on citation that isn't mine

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oc123

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I filed the n-400 about a week ago, so it's probably not even in the system yet. But I started to freak out after re-reading the application today. I've never been arrested or citated or charged with anything, so I answered "no" on that question. There are two cases in a kind of grey area though, and I now I think I should have put them on the application and answered yes instead. The first case: I was in a car with a couple of other friends and we were pulled over because my friend's car matched the description of a car they were looking for. They took our info and let us go, nothing ever happened with that. The one I'm worried about in the grey area is: I was picking up my friend from one of his friends' houses and we were parked on a residential street eating for a while when a police car went by. We finished eating and left a little while later and I was pulled over by the same car. He asked if we were carrying drugs and my found that my friend had about a gram or less of marijuana on him. He got a citation (I'm in california, so it's a misdeamor), and since it was my car, my name was included in the ticket, though I wasn't charged with anything, nor did I have to appear in court or bear any responsibility on the issue.

I have an appointment thru infopass to speak with an IO on tuesday. I want to know if there's anything that can be done to change my application or what paperwork I would need to send in and to whom. I know I'll find all of this out on tuesday, but I'm just freaking out badly right now about the whole thing. I don't want them to think I'm lying on the app or that I'm trying to withold info from them.


any advice?? past experiences?... can this be simply fixed?
thanks!
 
If you feel that you need to tell those stories in order to "tell the truth", bring them up proactively at the interview - there's nothing that you can do before that time (as far as I know). Bring documentation if you can.
 
My impression is you have nothing to be concerned about. Police take names all the time (e.g. witnesses to accident scenes etc), and its no big deal since you were not the recipient of either citation. Discuss this with the IO if you must, but if I were you, I'd rather not open that can of worms unnecessarily.
 
thanks for the replies. Do you think though that would count as being detained? And since my name was on the citation, would it show up in their fbi file? If so, I feel I should mention it to the IO. On the otherhand, I wouldn't want to be openning an unnecessary can of worms, like you said.
 
I concur with Flydog and Boatbod. If you are still worried you may try to talk to an experience immigration lawyer for his expert opinion in your matter.
 
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