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Misspelled name on J1 waiver and current case number

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Vermedve

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Hi, I would appreciate if somebody could support me with some advice in my fight with CIS. I am a J1 student with a two-years home residency requirement. My husband was selected in the 2004 lottery with EU14*** that becomes current in January. So I applied for a waiver of the two-years requirement which was approved. The problem is that a single letter was misspelled in my last name. I called the Nebraska Service Center and was asked to send a letter explaining the problem and documentation that supports the correct spelling. I did that. In the next notice I got from CIS in October they wrote that according electronic immigration records the correct spelling is what they included in the approval notice. OK, this is complicated, but please bear with me, because I am desperate for some help. It turns out that the State Department was the one that spelled my name incorrectly and they sent a favorable recommendation to CIS with the wrong name. I am studying in a small midwestern town, I am from a small country and there is no other person with the same name in this town. There is no person with the incorrectly spelled name either. Since I sent the documents supporting the correct spelling I have not been able to contact CIS on the phone. For approximately 45 days I always get an automated message after keying in the receipt number: We are sorry, but due to a temporary error in our system we cannot access your record. Please, call again later." This does not seem to be temporary to me any more. Does anybody have some encouragement and/or advice what to do in such a situation?

Thanks a lot!

Vermedve
 
do you have a copy of the forms you sent to DOS when you applied for your waiver? I don't think it's going to be a huge problem if your name is slightly misspelled on your waiver. At the interview, you show them a copy of the forms you sent to DOS when you applied for your waiver, a copy of the "case number" page you got from DOS - it will have your address, a copy of the favorable recommendation with your case number, copy of the explanation from NSC and the waiver approval from BCIS. You should be just fine.
 
Dear LucyMo!

I have been following this forum for a while, so I was quite sure you would be posting a reply! Thank you! I think I will try to have the Department of State send a new recommendation to CIS. A friend from the University I am attending managed to talk to CIS and they said that in "this climate" they would be more comfortable of having a waiver with the correct name. This is not a flat no, but they will accept the incorrect spelling only as a last resort. This applies to AOS. The Hungarian Consulate gave me a flat no, they will only accept the correct spelling. So I keep trying to get a waiver with correct spelling. First, I wanted Consular Processing because of some bad experience other people had with AOS. But now I am thinking about doing AOS. I would do it in Indianapolis. The International Office of my school assured me, that the Indi office is pretty quick with DV applications and in case my case was slow, they could help me push a little.

This might be personal, but I am interested in why you are doing this, I mean you must spend a lot of time answering questions, and for example I feel I cannot really reciprocate... So why? Vermedve
 
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