From your country
Your USCIS forms, from South Korea
Korean documents, USCIS boxes. Your surname comes first, and your passport decides how it is spelled in Latin letters.
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Your name on the form
In Korea the surname comes first. In 김민준, Kim is the family name and Min-jun the given name.
Your passport already carries the American order. Copy “Surname” into “Family Name” and “Given names” into “Given Name”.
The same surname is written Lee, Yi or Rhee, and Park or Bak. What your passport says governs.
A two-syllable given name is one name, sometimes hyphenated and sometimes not. Copy the passport’s form of it.
Korea does not use a middle name. That box on the form is not for the second syllable of your given name.
Write your name the same way on every form. A surname that changes from page to page raises questions.
The “State or Province” box
USCIS asks for a “state or province”. In your country that level is called a province.
In South Korea, “State or Province” means your province: Gyeonggi-do, Gangwon-do, Jeollanam-do.
Seoul is a special city and sits inside no province. That box takes Seoul.
Busan, Incheon and Daegu are metropolitan cities. They too stand alone in that box, with no province.
The gu and the dong belong on the address line. They are not the province.
USCIS mails you at the address you write down. Check it before you sign.
The ñ, the accents and your passport
Your Korean name carries no accents. Your passport has it in Latin letters: copy those letters exactly.
We print on your form exactly what you type. Accents do not disappear on their own.
Your national ID is not your A-Number
The 주민등록번호, your resident registration number, is Korean. It is not your A-Number nor a USCIS number.
The A-Number comes from USCIS, not from your country. It appears on the papers USCIS has sent you.
Where do I find my A-Number →If you are outside the United States
We prepare your form, you print it, sign it by hand and mail it. Being abroad does not change that.
We publish no consulate address, phone number, hours or appointment rule. The State Department handles those.
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