Places I've lived and worked for the last 10 years???

[Amina_KSA 0]

I have NO, as in ZERO idea about the dates for the places I've lived and less than ZERO idea about the places and dates of the places I worked...like NONE, NO IDEA. I was planning to just give a rough estimate (and it would be very rough b/c I really have no idea, I don't remember at all)...but then I just read that someone got in trouble for being off by one month on one date! OMG!!!

What can I do?

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Can you ask another family member to help you? Can you sit down and work backwards starting with your most recent address and job? Have you lived and worked in that many places in the past 10 years? It seems to me that you should be able to provide accurate information for the past few years at least. Sit, think and concentrate. Good luck!

[Penguin_ie 5,996]

Can you not try to reconstruct the months from letters, emails, old bills, maybe contact your bank etc for "change of address" forms you filed with them? For the employment, try and find an old cv/ resume? That is what I did. Also if you have any online accounts such as with ebay, amazon etc looking through your delivery adresses and old orders there may give you an idea, we had to do that as my husband couldn't remember a couple of his old addresses!

In terms of how exact they want you to be- very exact is always best, but I think it also depends on who you get to look at you papers and probably your consulate.

[Amina_KSA 0]

Thanks guys.

Unfortunately there is no one I can sit down with and calculate all of this with. My mother would have absolutely no clue about what months I worked at the Hallmark card shop down the street when I was a teenager...nor would she know the date of when I moved to and from my first apartment in college.

I haven't worked that many jobs, but considering my age...there were quite a few small, side jobs that I did work in high school and college and I can't for the life of me begin to figure out when those took place. I even have two "real jobs" that I honestly have no idea about when I started or left.

So, my question is...if there is no way I can pull this from my memory and if there is no way someone in my family can tell me...how else can I gather this kind of info?

I never changed addresses on my bank statements...I always kept it my mother's address...and I always kept my drivers license my mother's address....I didn't keep any bills from any of my old addresses and I don't have any of my menial high school/college jobs on my CV...

Oh man, I'm driving myself crazy with all of this! Thankfully my DH knows every detail of his last 10 years, lol...

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Hold on, hold on. Back it up and start again.

Amina -- you're the USC, right? Okay, the time frame is NOT ten years, it's five. The only form any of the remembering is relevant for for YOU is the G-325a, for both residence and employment. Your husband will need to go back with all the relevant info on employment in the past 10 years, and everywhere he's lived since age 16 for the DS-230, but you don't have to complete that.

The G-325a is a much less scrutinized document -- seriously, people make big boo-boos on it all the time and it seems to be all right. (Of course, your mileage may vary...) The worst that will happen is that you will get an RFE to correct it. Can your memory go back 5 years? Seriously, try your best. I don't know where you read that thing about being a month off on dates and it having repercussions (especially for a USC) -- that sounds like baloney. Do it to the best of your recollection.

Edited August 17, 2008 by elmcitymaven

[Amina_KSA 0]

Hold on, hold on. Back it up and start again.

Amina -- you're the USC, right? Okay, the time frame is NOT ten years, it's five. The only form any of the remembering is relevant for for YOU is the G-325a, for both residence and employment. Your husband will need to go back with all the relevant info on employment in the past 10 years, and everywhere he's lived since age 16 for the DS-230, but you don't have to complete that.

The G-325a is a much less scrutinized document -- seriously, people make big boo-boos on it all the time and it seems to be all right. (Of course, your mileage may vary...) The worst that will happen is that you will get an RFE to correct it. Can your memory go back 5 years? Seriously, try your best. I don't know where you read that thing about being a month off on dates and it having repercussions (especially for a USC) -- that sounds like baloney. Do it to the best of your recollection.

I love you! And you are so right! I was just looking over all the forms and my husband said to me "what are you talking about, I'm the only one who has to go back 10 years..not you!" Then I realized I had myself all worked up for nothing...

I still might be a bit off on the dates but this is a lot less problematic than I was thinking.

Thank you so much for catching my idiotic mistake.

*hugs*

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

I love you! And you are so right! I was just looking over all the forms and my husband said to me "what are you talking about, I'm the only one who has to go back 10 years..not you!" Then I realized I had myself all worked up for nothing...

I still might be a bit off on the dates but this is a lot less problematic than I was thinking.

Thank you so much for catching my idiotic mistake.

*hugs*

No probs! It's really easy to get yourself in a tizzy over these forms. And if you fudge a month here or there, it really isn't a biggie. Good luck!