I am gathering all of my documentation in order to claim citizenship through:
- my great grandfather (born in Italy)
- my grandmother (born in the US in 1923)
- my father (born in the US in 1955)
My grandmother’s birth certificate from 1923 is mostly handwritten by someone who likely worked for the hospital, and clearly had the names verbalized to them - this lead to many a misspelling. Not only is my grandmother’s name misspelled on her birth certificate, they switched her first and middle name around, and they grossly misspelled my great grandfather’s name (instead of “Domenico” it somehow became “Domico Lampa”), and misspelled my great grandmother’s name by one letter. Additionally, while my grandmother’s last name is written correct, both of my great grandparents have their last name incorrectly written as “Strata” instead of “Stratta”.
That being said, the birth certificate clearly indicates her birth in April, but the date at the bottom where the physician and hospital adminstrator’s signatures are shows a date stamp of May. There is also a document attached to the birth certicate, baring the same date in May, entitled “Affadavits For Correction of A Record” - it goes on to correct all of the misspellings and misordering of names.
My question is - will this prove at all challenging for me in my quest to obtain citizenship through jure sanguinis? I know that name changes and misspellings can often add difficulty to this process, but I am hoping that given that the record was corrected exactly a month after my grandmother’s birth, that it shouldn’t prove an issue. What do you guys think?
