Filling out I-130 - a little twist

[scetcher 0]

I stumbled on line 20 -

If your relative's native alphabet is other than Roman letters, write her name and foreign address in the native alphabet

Here's the twist - her native alphabet is not in Roman letters, but currently she resides in Norway and her foreign address is in Roman letters.

I don't know if I should:

a) Put her name in native letters and address in Roman

b ) Put her name in native and skip the address

c) Ignore the section completely(In Norway she writes her name in Roman letters

Also, I'm an American citizen, should I still write my Alien Registration Number while filing I-130 and G-325A?

All answers are greatly appreciated

Edited December 2, 2008 by scetcher

[Old Dominion 26]

Is her birth certificate/passport in her native alphabet? Then use it. Since you are a U.S. citizen, you no longer have a valid alien registration number.

Complete your timeline, please!

[scetcher 0]

Thank you!

Yes, her Birth certificate is in her native alphabet, but her current passport is not. I'm still baffled about the current address, though.

(Why would they put name/address - two different questions - on the same line?!)

[Zayd 0]

If her name is in a different alphabet, you should write it in that language, even if she normally writes it using Roman letters. This is especially true if her birth certificate is in a different language.

Concerning the address, most addresses use roman letters, even in countries which use different alphabets (e.g. Pakistan and Jordan). For our application, we transliterated (not translated - transliterated) the address into my wife's default alphabet and they accepted that.

I stumbled on line 20 -

If your relative's native alphabet is other than Roman letters, write her name and foreign address in the native alphabet

Here's the twist - her native alphabet is not in Roman letters, but currently she resides in Norway and her foreign address is in Roman letters.

I don't know if I should:

a) Put her name in native letters and address in Roman

b ) Put her name in native and skip the address

c) Ignore the section completely(In Norway she writes her name in Roman letters

Also, I'm an American citizen, should I still write my Alien Registration Number while filing I-130 and G-325A?

All answers are greatly appreciated

[scetcher 0]

Zayd, Thank you! - we'll do the same