Filling out I-130 with two foreign addresses

[chilegringa 0]

Hi everyone... So I plan on filing my I-130 from abroad with in the next few months and have a few questions...well I will technically be sending it from the US while we are both on vacation there, or leaving for my parents to send for me so that I don't have to worry about sending it internationally...but I live here in Chile and have been here for the last 3 years

I plan on putting my address abroad but am wondering if anyone has any advice about me having two address here in Chile, a mailing, and a physical address where my husband and I currently live... On the first part question #2 where it asks our address' I have put for both us his families address which is the address where we both receive mail and our official address in Chile..

Then in #21 it asks for the last address in which we both lived together and I planned on putting address #2 which is where we currently live and DO NOT receive mail - I want to make sure to put this address here as it is the same address which is on my rental contract which I plan on including as evidence of me living here in Chile (although it won't be of our relationship since it is only in my name)

I am hoping to get on this "fast-track" like many other USC's living abroad by putting my Chilean address on all forms but am a little worried about having two addresses and it being confusing... Does anyone have a similar situation? Should this effect it, since they are both international addresses?

Or should I put my current physical address is all spots where it asks for my address but write a note giving my mailing address?

Also, if we send the package while we are visiting my family in the US do we have to say Yes to #14 where it asks if my relative is currently in the US? I assume this questions refers to people who are trying to adjust status from the states which we won't be doing, but he will be in the US on a tourist visa for 1 month.. Should I also clarify that in the cover letter if we end up sending it while we are still there?

Okay, sorry for so many questions.. Thanks for any help in advance!

[danzz 11]

Only my opinion but I would put the actual address where you live on the forms and add a letter to your packet explaining that they should use another address for mailing and why.

[GlobeHopperMama 95]

Personally I would not do the above. USCIS has a lot of problems when it comes to trying to change mailing addresses, even when you use their own system. A separate letter would cause a whole extra level of confusion.

USCIS still has not made the I-130 very clear, unfortunately. The address you place in the first section of the I-130 will be used by USCIS as your mailing address. So put your mailing addresses in that first section. Later, when it asks for address abroad, you can use the actual residence address, and same for last address where you lived together. On the G-325As you can also put your current residence in the residential address sections and that can clear things up for them if they have any issues.

As far as question 14, yes, you do have to answer truthfully, so if he's in the US at the time, you do have to say so, and if you wish to include this in the cover letter, I would make sure to emphasize that you will NOT be pursuing adjustment of status in the US. I would even go so far as to put the Santiago in #22 to make it clear that you will be consular processing. I have some friends whose petitions went through to the local USCIS office in the US instead of being forwarded for consular processing even though they had specified it on the form, so yeah, something worth going the extra mile to make sure you don't have a multi-month delay while your petition gets re-routed to the correct location.

I think I personally would pay the DHL or Fedex fees or whatever to just send it from abroad to avoid that question altogether, but if you have to retrieve documents in the US or something, I guess it makes more sense to file while you're there.

Good luck, hope it goes quickly, and enjoy your trip to the States!

[chilegringa 0]

Personally I would not do the above. USCIS has a lot of problems when it comes to trying to change mailing addresses, even when you use their own system. A separate letter would cause a whole extra level of confusion.

USCIS still has not made the I-130 very clear, unfortunately. The address you place in the first section of the I-130 will be used by USCIS as your mailing address. So put your mailing addresses in that first section. Later, when it asks for address abroad, you can use the actual residence address, and same for last address where you lived together. On the G-325As you can also put your current residence in the residential address sections and that can clear things up for them if they have any issues.

As far as question 14, yes, you do have to answer truthfully, so if he's in the US at the time, you do have to say so, and if you wish to include this in the cover letter, I would make sure to emphasize that you will NOT be pursuing adjustment of status in the US. I would even go so far as to put the Santiago in #22 to make it clear that you will be consular processing. I have some friends whose petitions went through to the local USCIS office in the US instead of being forwarded for consular processing even though they had specified it on the form, so yeah, something worth going the extra mile to make sure you don't have a multi-month delay while your petition gets re-routed to the correct location.

I think I personally would pay the DHL or Fedex fees or whatever to just send it from abroad to avoid that question altogether, but if you have to retrieve documents in the US or something, I guess it makes more sense to file while you're there.

Good luck, hope it goes quickly, and enjoy your trip to the States!

Thanks for the advice - it might be worth just waiting and sending if from here when we get back from vacation in the states.. We are trying to get expedited and it would really suck if it was delayed only because of them thinking it was an adjustment of status! Or I guess I can leave it in my parents care and then can send it off after we have already returned to Chile...

Also, you mean to put our mailing address on question #2 for both us - but then put our residential address where it asks for my husbands address abroad and our last address where we lived together?

Thanks

[GlobeHopperMama 95]

Also, you mean to put our mailing address on question #2 for both us - but then put our residential address where it asks for my husbands address abroad and our last address where we lived together?

Thanks

Exactly that. Yes. I wasn't looking at the form so I couldn't remember what number, but yeah Question #2 is the part they use as your mailing address, and can be different from the other addresses used in the packet. Would be nice if they specified that more clearly. For example, the first time I filed I-130, I was bouncing between the US and Mexico, where my husband lived, and mail service in my parents' neighborhood was awful so for Question 2 I put my grandparents' address on my side and my husband's Mexican address on his side . For a lot of the subsequent questions, we wound up needing to put down different addresses. We received the approval notice at my grandparents' house, and my husband's paperwork for the NVC stage went to both my grandparents' address and his Mexican address, I believe.

[abdo1980 0]

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