PO Box vs. street address

[Ryan H 3,812]

On all the forms I have filled out thus far, I obviously have written the actual street address where I reside. However, I have a PO Box and that is where all my important things are sent. So far, the only way I could see informing USCIS that I want any correspondence from them in relation to the petition to go to my PO Box would be to address that at the end of the cover letter. Anybody have any other suggestions? Thanks!

[nickm 1]

I had the very same issue, a po box, the important thing for USCIS is that you recevie correspondence from them.

Therefore, put your po box address on the forms and if applicable put your physical address too.

I also included in my cover letter that my physical address was one address and my postal address another and so far i have recieved all the neceesssary paperwork and had no issues at all.

Good luck.

[nab 74]

On all the forms I have filled out thus far, I obviously have written the actual street address where I reside. However, I have a PO Box and that is where all my important things are sent. So far, the only way I could see informing USCIS that I want any correspondence from them in relation to the petition to go to my PO Box would be to address that at the end of the cover letter. Anybody have any other suggestions? Thanks!

i was in this situation too but in mine i prefer the USCIS stuff come directly to home so i dont have to wait to get mail at PO (i would be wasting a lot of gas going to check ). if you will be gone for weekend etc have PO hold mail.

you can get several of the yellow cards and keep them at home then if you need to leave last minute just stick in box... i would recommend this over leaving them at PO becasue many time i have come back to mail in the box where they miss holding the first day so entire week i was gone the first day of the "hold" mail sat there all week

it always seems to work better for me if i put it in box with a post-it saying "please start today" and "thank you so much "

another thing you can do is just put your mail on hold indefinitely .. since it is summer this shoudlnt be a problem becasue many people go on extended summer vacations. i think this can be done for like 3 months...? anyway, make sure you check the box that says do not deliver till you sign/request (cant remember exactly what it says) but there is another box that says resume delivery after you pick up mail; you dont want this one becasue you wnat to be able to pop in and pick up mail but keep mail on hold.

sorry IDK what to do about changing USCIS address to PO Box but maybe soemone else can help on that.

good luck on your visa journey

[nickm 1]

On all the forms I have filled out thus far, I obviously have written the actual street address where I reside. However, I have a PO Box and that is where all my important things are sent. So far, the only way I could see informing USCIS that I want any correspondence from them in relation to the petition to go to my PO Box would be to address that at the end of the cover letter. Anybody have any other suggestions? Thanks!

Also check out my thread here.

[Alan-and-Ira 1]

We provided our PO Box US address in our forms in the attachments, like: Q.## residence address: ***; Mailing address: *** PO Box***, and now we get all the correspondence from USCIS to that PO Box. Best wishes!