Hi All,
I hope you can help me with me dilemma:
- My wife and I are permanent residents since 2/2005 (employment based visa)
- We want to sponsor my wife's children from a previous relationship (13 and 15 years old) who are Filipino citizens
- My wife was never married before, however, the children's birth certificates say that their parents were married, and the children have the biological father's last name on all documents since birth.
The biological father wanted the kids to have his last name, and lied about being married when he registered the births. This is evident by two different marriage dates as stated on the two birth certificates.
It is a lengthy and costly process to correct the birth certficates, and questions would still remain in the eyes of the BCIS. Since all documents from third world countries are treated with suspicion by the BCIS and embassy folks, would it buy us anything to try and correct the birth certificates before filing I-130, or might a attached letter of explanation suffice ?
Has anybody been there / done that ?
I hope you can help me with me dilemma:
- My wife and I are permanent residents since 2/2005 (employment based visa)
- We want to sponsor my wife's children from a previous relationship (13 and 15 years old) who are Filipino citizens
- My wife was never married before, however, the children's birth certificates say that their parents were married, and the children have the biological father's last name on all documents since birth.
The biological father wanted the kids to have his last name, and lied about being married when he registered the births. This is evident by two different marriage dates as stated on the two birth certificates.
It is a lengthy and costly process to correct the birth certficates, and questions would still remain in the eyes of the BCIS. Since all documents from third world countries are treated with suspicion by the BCIS and embassy folks, would it buy us anything to try and correct the birth certificates before filing I-130, or might a attached letter of explanation suffice ?
Has anybody been there / done that ?