G-325a - Definition of Residence

[cjames 0]

We are filling out our G-325a forms in preparation to file I-130 in a couple of weeks and would like opinions on the definition of 'residence' when it comes to completing the below section:

'Applicant's residence last five years. List present address first.'

I would imagine others have similar stories of visiting your SO on a VWP (I am the UKC Husband), staying 90 days, leaving and returning shortly after.

In the past 5 years I have, on 2 occasions, stayed in the US for 90 days on VWP left for 1 or 2 weeks and then returned for another 80-90 days.

Now I am filling out this section in the G-325a and am not sure what to put. I certainly was not resident in the US in a legal sense, yet was not resident anywhere else either.

The first time I stayed on back-to-back VWP I had been living in Costa Rica and decided to leave there, fly to the US, and visit my then Girlfriend for a few months before moving back to Europe, in the meantime the address I would have mail sent to would be my families home in the UK. Thats always been my 'mailing' address when I have been travelling and not living anywhere in particular.

At the end of the first 90 days I was having such a nice time that we flew to Costa Rica for a vacation then came back to the US and then I stayed another 80 days before moving to Curacao for a job, so never actually got to the UK.

Now if I put down my UK family address as residence it will be easy to see that I never actually got there. Would that still count as 'residence' though? Very confusing.