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ajay_b

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I am going to apply n-600 for my kid and suddenly realized that my name appears a bit differently in her birth certificate. They have combined the first and middle name as first name in her birth certificate and wrote my father's name as the middle name e.g. all my documents say

First Name Middle Name Last Name
X KUMAR Y

Her birth certificate would say
XKUMAR Z Y

What should I do?

Should I have mentioned this in my own N-400 application? My own documents, including birth certificate, has the correct name and hence did not thought about it? I have an Oath on 22nd of this month

Has anybody faced this situation?
 
Since you have to mention all the different names you have used, you should mention this as an additional name in your N-400 application.

The best bet would be to correct the birth certificate and the process varies by state. For eg. here is the PA one for child over 1 one year old.

Correcting the BC now will save the child a boat load of trouble in the future as it is the originating document and trumps all others as some have found out at the time of interview.
 
takshila1 said:
The best bet would be to correct the birth certificate and the process varies by state. For eg. here is the PA one for child over 1 one year old.

Correcting the BC now will save the child a boat load of trouble in the future as it is the originating document and trumps all others as some have found out at the time of interview.
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Well considering the OP is filing an N600, I'm guessing the kid wasn't born in the US. If (s)he was, the N600 is unnecessary.

The easiest thing to do is to fill out a joint affidavit with both parents indicating the names of the parents, child, DOB, etc and notarize it indicating that the reason you're filling out the affidavit is because the birth certificate is incomplete/has an error in it. File the certificate along with the affidavit (copy of BC, original affidavit for N600). You should be fine. You don't really even need a birth certificate if you have other supporting documents to prove the child's yours.

Did you already get a passport? If you haven't, do that first. The state department will let you know what documents they need to process the passport app.
 
1caliN400 said:
Well considering the OP is filing an N600, I'm guessing the kid wasn't born in the US. If (s)he was, the N600 is unnecessary.
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What you say is absolutely correct.

In that case, how difficult would it be to rectify the BC back in the home country?

The affidavits etc will work fine for the citizenship but in the long run it would be better to fix the BC now.
 
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