Help with I-130

[Sally Bantog]

Please give me some advice. I wanted to file for I-130 to petition my parents in the Philippines but I just found out that there are discrepancies with my mothers birth certificate. Our (myself and siblings) birth certificate showing her name is "Normina Bantog" but on her birth certificate is "Santa Normita Bantog". I dont know what to do at this point....PLEASE HELP!!!

[rayb]

Have mom get her passport, then petition in her passport name, which should be her birth certificate name. Execute an affidavit, with proof, that mom used both versions of the name format (Normina and Normita), but that both versions are the same person.

The alternative, which I do not recommend, is to do a court change of myour birth certificate's use of mom's name, from Normina to Normita, which is an expensive and time-consuming process. Her name is what is on her birth certificate. Her misspelled name on your birth certs is a clerical anomaly, but with supplementary proof of mom's use of both names (baptism certs, school and medical documents), this can be overcome.

--Ray B

Please give me some advice. I wanted to file for I-130 to petition my parents in the Philippines but I just found out that there are discrepancies with my mothers birth certificate. Our (myself and siblings) birth certificate showing her name is "Normina Bantog" but on her birth certificate is "Santa Normita Bantog". I dont know what to do at this point....PLEASE HELP!!!