Wrong former Nationality

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papara

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Hello,
I am a new member and I am glad I found this forum. I have some questions about the certificate of naturalization.

My mother has been naturalized about a week ago and we didn't realized until now that the former of nationality is wrong. My mother told me that she couldn't believe that she missed that one. She also had a name change and the name change document attached to the certificate also has the wrong country of nationality. At the interview, she told me that she was too focused checking out the new name information but missed the nationality part. And that she had to quickly sign the name change form because the officer was not really nice. She told me that the officer kinda yelled at her during the interview.
Anyway, do you think it is big of a deal since she is now a US citizen? Should we apply for a replacement with a $380 fee? We just made an appointment via infopass and hope they can resolve this.
I think that it's kinda lame since INS should have professional officer. The officer should know by the information they have on their file or at least saw what my mom looked like. My mother is from Southeast Asia but the officer put her nationality as someone from Namibia. It seems like we have to pay a price for someone's else fault.

Thank you
 
She has to get it changed, because it will be odd when you send the certificate to get her a US passport and the country of former citizenship (in the case of the passport, the country of birth probably) are different (compared to the passport application).
 
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I think she'll have to pay to get a corrected version, because she didn't point out the error at the oath ceremony. But go to the Infopass and find out what they say.
 
I think if it is their mistake (she didn't wrote the wrong country on the N-400) she shouldn't pay for the replacement certificate and she should ask for the fees to be waived.

My 2 cents.
 
Have her go to Infopass to get the certificate changed. The mistake is USCIS' so there is no charge to change it.
 
Thanks for the inputs. I appreciate it.
I believe It's their mistake. We have the correct information on the N400 application, the green card, and the expired passport that asked at the interview. And yet, they still made mistake about it. They should check it beforehand and cannot depend on the applicant to double-check it. How about if the applicant has trouble with his/her sight? I mean if it is for a misspelled name information then I understand, but the former nationality is the other thing. My mother does not look like a black. She is very much asian with yellow skin.

How long does it take to change the certificate?
She has the family name changed to my father's. And she also has the name court document with wrong nationality. I believe the stupid officer did the mistake when doing the petition name change form. The certificate was issued with my mother's new name and the height information is the same as in the application but I dont understand why the certificate followed all of the information on the petition name change form. The petition name change form should only arrange for name change only. With that said, it would have been fine if my mother did not request for a name change. What an ignorant process!

What I think it is complicated is that the name change document was hand-writing signed by the deputy clerk and dated at the oath date. I dont know how they will fix it....
We have made an appointment for next friday. We'll see what happens.
 
Hi Parara,

Can you advise if you mom get the nationality changed? I have similar situation and don't know what to do. Is having infopass appointment useful? Which form should be filled?

Thanks.
 
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