A compound family name and two given names
Passports often print all given names on one line and a family name of several words, such as “Ferreira da Costa”. Software that splits a full name on spaces can put part of the family name in the middle-name box.
Mail at the lawyer’s office, home in another town
Clients often have mail sent to their lawyer’s office while they live elsewhere, and an old apartment is still in the file. Software can treat the mailing address as the home address, answer that the two are the same, or copy the old apartment.
The mission’s address, its floor and its state
The employment letter, the law firm and the client each give an address, and the letters write the state out in full. Software can put the employer’s address in the home box, drop the floor, or copy “New York” where the form’s state box takes two letters.
Phone numbers that belong to someone else
An I-508 file holds many phone numbers: the filer’s office and mobile, the employer’s personnel office, the lawyer’s, the paralegal’s and the interpreter’s. Software can put any of them in the filer’s contact boxes, or copy a daytime number into the mobile box when there’s no mobile.
An interpreter who was booked but never interpreted
The file has a booking confirmation with an interpreter’s name, phone, email and language. Part 4 is for an interpreter who was actually used, as the form says. Software that finds a named interpreter can fill Part 4 anyway.
The paralegal prepared it, the attorney reviewed it
The attorney’s name, phone and signature are all over the file, so software often fills the preparer section with the attorney, even when someone else prepared the form.
The day it was signed, not the day it was booked
A signing file holds the first appointment, the rescheduled one, the attorney’s review date and each person’s actual signature, all written out in words. Software can take the first date it finds, give everyone the same date, or copy “October 14, 2026” into boxes that want MM/DD/YYYY.