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LUCY10

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on online application I wrote that i am called Mariya,and in all my official documents(passport,birth certificate,ID card, ....) it is written Mariya but on my diploma it is written Maliya,

Do you think this will be a big issue during my interview?
I need your advice, please
Thank you.
 
LUCY10 said:
on online application I wrote that i am called Mariya,and in all my official documents(passport,birth certificate,ID card, ....) it is written Mariya but on my diploma it is written Maliya,

Do you think this will be a big issue during my interview?
I need your advice, please
Thank you.
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I think the best thing to do is to correct your name in diploma . It might be tedious process but if you have enough time just go and start the process of changing your name in diploma. I read in a blog about a guy with similar problem and he was rejected during interview. so why to take risk?
 
raevsky said:
High school diploma?
Is there date of birth on the diploma?
Is it actually yours?
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yes the diploma is mine,and when i went to request for rectification of my name,they told me that about my issue they will give me an equivalence of diploma not the original like the one i have. I need ur advice please.thank you
 
Thanks for checking. I also did a quick check of a high school Diploma (issued in the US) and there was no DOB on it though. I guess it depends on where it was issued :confused:

slash_dot said:
I couldn't remember, so I checked mine and found that it did indeed have my DOB written next to my name! I'd never noticed it before for some reason.
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Mine has my DOB - issued in Canada. It makes sense to put the DOB on it when you think about it. Hopefully the OP's diploma has her DOB on it. Otherwise they might think she's passing off someone else's diploma as hers. A sister's perhaps, or cousin's.

Too bad you didn't catch that mistake right away and demanded a corrected one. I wouldn't have put up with my name being misspelled on such an important document.
 
Name Issue on Diploma

Vichel said:
Mine has my DOB - issued in Canada. It makes sense to put the DOB on it when you think about it. Hopefully the OP's diploma has her DOB on it. Otherwise they might think she's passing off someone else's diploma as hers. A sister's perhaps, or cousin's.

Too bad you didn't catch that mistake right away and demanded a corrected one. I wouldn't have put up with my name being misspelled on such an important document.
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In my country they don't put DOBon diploma,It is a diploma that I obtain in 2004
and I didn't correct the mistake because they don't care much
about L and R in names but I know that in some country they care,I entered University with this Diploma,
and when I apply for a job somewhere they don't refuse because of this mistake.
 
LUCY10 said:
yes the diploma is mine,and when i went to request for rectification of my name,they told me that about my issue they will give me an equivalence of diploma not the original like the one i have. I need ur advice please.thank you
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It does not matter if you have equivalence of diploma.The original certificates are generally given for one time only. Many people lost these original certificate and get a duplicate certificate. It is equivalent to original certificate and is accepted everywhere.
 
LUCY10 said:
on online application I wrote that i am called Mariya,and in all my official documents(passport,birth certificate,ID card, ....) it is written Mariya but on my diploma it is written Maliya,

Do you think this will be a big issue during my interview?
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Did you use "Maliya" during your years of attending school, with "Maliya" showing up on your school ID and/or report cards/transcript, or is this occurrence of "Maliya" a one-time mistake that only appeared on your diploma, and didn't appear on any of your other school documents or any other document?

If it's just a one-time mistake on the diploma only, and you never used that diploma for any US immigration process, you have nothing to worry about. They're not going to ask for your diploma in the interview.

However, if you actually used the name Maliya while attending school, or used the diploma for a US immigration process (such as to qualify for a student visa or the DV lottery) you should have listed that name in the "other names used" section on page 1 of the N-400.
 
Jackolantern said:
Did you use "Maliya" during your years of attending school, with "Maliya" showing up on your school ID and/or report cards/transcript, or is this occurrence of "Maliya" a one-time mistake that only appeared on your diploma, and didn't appear on any of your other school documents or any other document?

If it's just a one-time mistake on the diploma only, and you never used that diploma for any US immigration process, you have nothing to worry about. They're not going to ask for your diploma in the interview.

However, if you actually used the name Maliya while attending school, or used the diploma for a US immigration process (such as to qualify for a student visa or the DV lottery) you should have listed that name in the "other names used" section on page 1 of the N-400.
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Of course that theyask for diploma,
on my certificate on 4th it is Maliya, 5th and 6th year it is written Mariya, and on the advanced certificate obtained after finnishing high school it is written Maliya.
I would like to know if the equivalence of diploma is accepted in DV lottery,
and I wonder also if I can continue to use the diploma which contain Maliya and search for affidavit
I really don't know what to do.
Thank you for your Ideas and advices
 
such as to qualify for a student visa or the DV lottery
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It is in fact a DV lottery visa. So the issue could be very serious. You need a verifiable proof of high school education.

What is equivalence of diploma in your country?
Can I see a sample?
What is the difference between original diploma and equivalence of diploma?
What is your country (where you graduated from school)?

Can you take a transcript (with hours from school or a national registry of schools if you have it in your country?)
 
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LUCY10 said:
Of course that theyask for diploma,
on my certificate on 4th it is Maliya, 5th and 6th year it is written Mariya, and on the advanced certificate obtained after finnishing high school it is written Maliya.
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You originally posted your question in the US citizenship section, so I was mistakenly thinking about your question as if you were applying for citizenship (where the high school diploma is almost always unimportant).

With the DV lottery the high school diploma definitely is of high importance, unless you have a college degree. You said you went to university; did you finish the degree? If yes, your high school diploma becomes unimportant.
 
Even if a college degree is available, the consulate could suspect the applicant obtained it illegally, by using someone's else high school diploma to be admitted to college.
 
raevsky said:
Even if a college degree is available, the consulate could suspect the applicant obtained it illegally, by using someone's else high school diploma to be admitted to college.
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Not if they don't see the HS diploma. With a college degree, they won't need to see a HS diploma. A college degree by itself satisfies the DV lottery education requirement for "high school or above".
 
With a college degree, they won't need to see a HS diploma. A college degree by itself satisfies the DV lottery education requirement for "high school or above". .
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Usually they want to know more.
If you have college degree, they ask for high school diploma anyway and they are usually satisfied if you either provide it or explain why it is not obtainable, provided you graduated from high school.
It is not 100% clear what exactly happens if you did not graduate from school at all. It is more or less clear that master's degree on it's own without school education qualifies. It is not so clear about bachelor degree without school education.

Also, they do not consider remote degrees. Remote Master's degree would not qualify

"At least" high school could mean "high school and something in addition to it", or could mean "something that is at least as valuable as high school". It does not say "high school or above"
 
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According to Wolfsdorf,

High school education or its equivalent
For the DV program, the DOS defines high school education or its equivalent to mean “successful completion of a twelve-year course of elementary and secondary education in the United States or successful completion in another country of a formal course of elementary and secondary education comparable to completion of twelve years’ elementary and secondary education in the Unites States.”27
Practice Pointer – Remember, a General Education Diploma (GED) test or its foreign equivalent will not satisfy this requirement.
Practice Pointer – An applicant may present a Master’s degree to meet this requirement.
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Unfortunately, he does not provide references. But he does not say Bachelor's, he says Master's.
 
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