DS-230 Employment History

[ljandjl 1]

In regards to the DS-230 employement history question....

how important is it? We'll do the best we can, but if the DAH delivered pizza on semester breaks from college do we need to list all of that? Truly everything since age 16 (to the best of his memory), or since it was "non-taxable mini-employment" can we leave it off and write "STUDENT"

Not trying to cut corners, just don't want to include 90 extra pages of employment history if not necessary!!

[yachachiq12 43]

It would seem to me that if you don't fill it out completely, then that would be lying by omission.

Wouldn't you rather be safe than sorry? I don't think anyone here is going to tell you that any part of the DS-230 is "not that important." We just added the extra pages necessary to make our employment history complete.

Are you exaggerating when you say there will be 90 extra pages for employment? Really?

[ljandjl 1]

Yeah of course 90 pages is an exaggeration

But when you work somewhere for 1 week here, 2 months there, etc........it becomes a inconveniently long employment history, not to mention subject to lots of errors

I'm mostly curious if the college years can just be listed as "student" since he wasn't meaningfully employed, but more so doing odd jobs for extra money!

[yachachiq12 43]

I doubt my husband remembered all his employment dates precisely, but we did our best and that's what worked for us.

Again, I won't be the one to tell you that you can omit information. Common sense would tell me that if he was mowing the lawn for his neighbors off the books then that wouldn't need to be disclosed. But, if he was receiving a paycheck from a pizza restaurant, then that would certainly need to be included as "employment."

I'd err on the side of caution.