I-94 Misprints Have Been Recalled
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced that in early 2008, it received approximately one million I-94 Arrival-Departure cards that were misprinted—the cards were missing a digit. Keep in mind that an I-94 card should have eleven digits, comprised of nine digits, a space, and then two more digits.
It is not known exactly how many of the misprinted cards were actually issued to travelers but clearly many were because some people have reported problems in obtaining a Social Security number because the SSA will not issue a number to someone with what appears to it to be an incorrect number.
All of the misprinted I-94 cards have been recalled now and CBP has announced that anyone with a misprinted I-94 card can request that CBP issue a new card either through Deferred Inspection or at a Port of Entry.
Here is a helpful FAQs from CBP on the basics of the I-94.
