Speicific I-130 Questions

[immifrustration 0]

After the encouragement I received on the forums, I have started my filing process by myself. First on the checklist is the I-130 and I encountered a couple of questions while reading carefully through the instructions and filling ou the form. I was wondering if those of you who are more enlightened and experienced on this matter can give me a couple of tips.

The short backstory is that I'm an visa overstay (3.5yr) F-1 who is applying for AOS based on marriage, no other complications such as criminal record. I'm filling out the form electronically on my computer. I'm an educated and generally meticulous person.

1, Documents to prove citizenship

On the instructions for I-130, under the section "What Documents Do You Need to Show That You Are a U.S. Citizen?", it lists the need for many documents such as the Birth Cert, Naturalization Cert. My spouse is a naturalized US Citizen and the naturalization was obtained through parents and therefore he does not have a naturalization certificate. The only document we have at our disposal is his passport. Is this enough of an evidence or do w need to go through the trouble of filling out the N-565 to obtain a naturalization certificate for him? the latter option will increase costs and delay our application so we definitely prefer to use passport-only.

2, Leaving blanks

Under the I-130 instructions, it says: Answer all questions fully and accurately. State that an item is not applicable with "N/A." If the answer is none, write "none." Do I interpret this literally and fill out all the fields on the form with "N/A" or "none" even though it sometimes makes more sense to leave the fields blank? for example, do I fill in "none" for the middle name field since I do not have one? In general, is it ok to leave blanks on the form for the fields or should I insist on filling "N/A" or "none" for everything that should be blank.

3, Foreign Address

If both of us are in the USA, do I still need to find a foreign address to fill in under section 19 ("Your relative's address aboard") and 20 ("Foreign address in native alphabet")?

Thank you for reading through this and helping me out in these stressful times.

[YuAndDan 153]

1) Yes, US Passport is enough to prove citizenship, it is said to copy all pages including cover, but others have indicated just the BIO page is enough.

2) No middle name is NONE if you have no middle name Write ins in all CAPS to avoid confusion leaving a blank line leaves adjudicator asking If this was intentional or not.

3) Can write "NONE" there.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

For no middle name, I would put a horizontal line through that part, or put N/A because you don't want them to think your middle name is "none." (This is what I did for my husband's app). YuandDan's idea to write NONE in all caps and the rest of your name in both upper and lower case to distinguish between the two is also good. They can probably (hopefully) figure it out either way, though. Good luck.