I-864, questions #12 & 13

[nyahkon 0]

Question 12 on the I-864 asks for my mailing address and question 13 asks for my place of residence. Is this referring to my mailing address and residence as of now (i.e. while in Japan) or where I will be staying in the states?

Same thing goes for question 14 re: my phone number.

Edited July 4, 2011 by nyahkon

[pushbrk 13,116]

Question 12 on the I-864 asks for my mailing address and question 13 asks for my place of residence. Is this referring to my mailing address and residence as of now (i.e. while in Japan) or where I will be staying in the states?

Same thing goes for question 14 re: my phone number.

It means if you get your mail at a different address than your actual residence, give both addresses. If not, simply put "SAME" in the first line of the second address.

[nyahkon 0]

I realize that, but that doesn't really answer my question about which address they are asking for.

Anyway, I asked them when I went to my interview and they said to put my Japanese mailing address for both #12 and #13 (i.e. where I live now). Hopefully this proves useful for somebody in the future.

[Navyk 78]

Your answer is relevant for US citizens living abroad.

But the fact is that residential address and mailing address could be same or different depending on where you are living and where you want you mail to be received at. In some case a US citizen living abroad may give an address in US as mailing address, where his agent or attorney or relative may be taking care of his mail.

[pushbrk 13,116]

I realize that, but that doesn't really answer my question about which address they are asking for.

Anyway, I asked them when I went to my interview and they said to put my Japanese mailing address for both #12 and #13 (i.e. where I live now). Hopefully this proves useful for somebody in the future.

Was there something that gave you the impression any of the questions were to be answered in future tense instead of present tense? The I-130 and DS230 contain such questions but they are very clearly future tense questions.

Edited July 15, 2011 by pushbrk