“You don’t need someone else to tell you anything, all you need to do is LOOK at the document and decide what the kenyan student wrote in his own hand, and what was added by someone else, who didn’t bother to at least initial the additions.”
Senior appears to have regularly submitted forms with lots of blank areas that would need to be filled in by an INS official during either a personal interview or follow-up phone call.
The entry about not being employed vs. the entry about the Harvard grant $ would support your point about o SR leaving stuff off and leaving it for the clerks to fill out.