POST BY RONALD PAYNE – In my last Post we talked about collecting and organizing your information and documents. I recommended using the Form SF-86 (Questionnaire for National Security Positions) as a tool to collect and organize your information and documents. Sufficient time has passed from my last Post (I’ve been very busy with other endeavors) so I am assuming that many of our members here have downloaded the SF-86 and completed its preparation by now. Now unless you are planning on joining the United States Military or becoming employed with the United States Government at a latter time, this form is only a “worksheet”, but much of the information contained within this Form will be asked of you latter in the Immigration and Resettlement process. So let’s begin… In both Iraq and Afghanistan the Passport is you most important document because it proves both Identity and Citizenship. This is also the first document that your identifying information will be compared against all of your other information and documents. Thus this is the most important document to have the correct information listed therein. The Second most important document is the Afghanistan Taskera (which is BOTH a National Identification Document AND a Birth Certificate) or the Iraqi Jensia and Birth Certificate. Your information on these documents must be accurate and match the Passport, and just as important, their English Translations must also be accurate and match the English portion of the Passport. After names, then the (1) Date of Birth and (2) Place of Birth must match. Parents names should also be checked and be a match on both documents as applicable. After these documents the Name and Date of Birth should also match the Local National Employee Badges. After that, a check should be done to ensure that all of your other information is also exact, meaning, if your name is “Mohammad Afghan Iraqi” then that should be the name on your (1) Passport, (2) Jensia/Taskera, and as it is listed on all of your SIV Application Packet and on all of your Immigration/Resettlement Applications and Forms. The key to everything is that all of your information should be the same on every document and in every SIV Application Packet and every Immigration/Resettlement Application or Form. So that leads into the second part of this discussion, what if the information is incorrect or there is a discrepancy. The answer to that problem depends on what stage of the process you are in… Obviously I would prefer that the stage of processing would be Pre-Submission. So we will start there. If you have NOT yet submitted (or re-submitted) a SIV Application Packet, then I would advise you to get all of your documents corrected (even if it means paying corruption). Now if that is not possible, then you will need to prepare your Bio-Data Sheet with the CORRECT Information and then prepare a Statement that explains what in your Documents is incorrect and sets forth what the correct information is. Now in the case of a name discrepancy, that statement could be corroborated by a “One and the Same Person Memorandum” that is written by a US Citizen Supervisor. So for example, lets say that you name is “Mohammad Afghan Iraqi” and that is what your Passport says… but your Taskera/Jensia says your name is “Mohammed Afghan” (do you see the first and second errors?) and your LN Bade says that your name is “Mohammad Iraqi” (do you see the error?), and lets say that your true Date of Birth is 12 June 1985 and that is listed in your Jensia/Taskera, but your Passport and LN Bade says that your Date of Birth is 01 January 1985 (do you see the errors?)… A fix to this would be to get a new Passport and Taskera/Jensia, but that may not be possible, so you would have your US Citizen Supervisor make a copy of all there documents and write a memorandum that say that he was your US Citizen Supervisor and personally knows you, and that you and all of your documents are “one and the same person”, and you would attach his/her memorandum to your “Statement of Explanation of Errors and Discrepancies”… Now in the case where you have already submitted your SIV Application Packet and/or other Immigration/Resettlement Applications and Forms, you may want to consider getting your documents corrected to show the accurate information and to then submit an amendment and explanation of any such errors and discrepancies that you found. Your Statement should include what Application or Form contained the error or discrepancy, its page number and block or box number if applicable, what the error or discrepancy was , and what the correct information is, and if possible, the evidence that you have to support what you are submitting. In conclusion, it is essential that all of your information is correct and consistent throughout your entire SIV Application packet and throughout all of your Immigration and Resettlement Applications and Forms, and that your information and supporting documentation (ie. Passport, Jensia/Taskera, LN Badge, Awards, Certificates, LOR’s, so on and so forth) match your information (or you can explain the error, inconsistency, or discrepancy easily). When I conduct a review of a SIV Case, this is what I am looking for, I am looking for Administrative Errors, this is what can be prevented, or what can be corrected after submission… Now stuff involving derogatory information, that is beyond either of our control, but if you know you have derogatory information, then submitting an explanation may help (you have nothing to lose by trying)… If you follow my directions exactly, 90% of the cases can be reviewed by yourself, but if you want me to conduct a review, then naturally the accuracy of my review will depend on the extent of the record available for review, and what I would require at a minimum (or what you should look at as a minimum) is the (1) SIV Application Packet, (2) COM LOR or Denial Notice, (3) I-360, (4) DS-230 or DS-260, (5) DS-157, (6) DS-234, and (7) all of the documents submitted with any of these forms (ie. Passport, taskera/Jensia, so on and so forth)… Finally, where there is an error or discrepancy, fix it or explain it…
Posted on: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:13:28 +0000
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