DS230 places lived

[mdglotzbach 0]

My fiancee isn't sure what to put on question 30 places lived. She has lived at home in Xuyi since born but when she was in college she stayed in the dorms there, in another Wuxi. She always came home on any holiday and breaks. so it wasn't a permanent residence. When filing for the i129f i asked my uncle that works in homeland security and he asked a friend he said don't put her school address, Which makes sense, but if we put Wuxi on her ds230 it will show up different than her petition. The confusion here is that she brought her hukou to the school and left it there for the years she had atteneded, and accidentaly left when moved back home meaning her unmarried certificate has came from there as well. Can she put lived at home Xuyi from birthdate (mm-yyyy) and then on the second line put Wuxi (only during school sessions) and put the dates she attended that school? Should she write a letter stating why her unmarried certificate shows wuxi because hukou was left? and should she get another unmarried certificate for the week her hukou has been back in her hometown?

Edited December 17, 2012 by mdglotzbach

[leishi 11]

for my wife's application, we put all the places she lived at on that form, including the time she spent at university dorms.

[mdglotzbach 0]

  On 12/17/2012 at 5:18 PM, leishi said:

for my wife's application, we put all the places she lived at on that form, including the time she spent at university dorms.

So she should put the 5 months in school then time home then other 5 months in school then time home and so on?

Edited December 17, 2012 by mdglotzbach

[leishi 11]

  On 12/17/2012 at 5:23 PM, mdglotzbach said:

So she should put the 5 months in school then time home then other 5 months in school then time home and so on?

the way i understand it is that during those years of time in school, her place of residence is the school dorm, the times she went back on holidays to visit, they are just visits, not place of residence.

//EDIT FOR TYPO

Edited December 17, 2012 by leishi

[mdglotzbach 0]

Thanks. We understood it as her home is permanent residence and school was just class. All her mail still went home nothing to school. From what people in immigration services in the US said is just put home address school is more secondary so that's how we did the i129f. I just dont know how Guangzhou wants it.

[leishi 11]

  On 12/17/2012 at 6:28 PM, mdglotzbach said:

Thanks. We understood it as her home is permanent residence and school was just class. All her mail still went home nothing to school. From what people in immigration services in the US said is just put home address school is more secondary so that's how we did the i129f. I just dont know how Guangzhou wants it.

For China, it's definitely where her hukou is, it will be her residence. If understand correctly, when Chinese students go to college, they usually move their hukou to the city where the college is at, so her residence would be her college.

[mdglotzbach 0]

  On 12/17/2012 at 7:35 PM, leishi said:

For China, it's definitely where her hukou is, it will be her residence. If understand correctly, when Chinese students go to college, they usually move their hukou to the city where the college is at, so her residence would be her college.

So it will cause problems she forgot her hukou in her school city months ago she's been back home for over six months her hukou was left there until last week.

[leishi 11]

  On 12/17/2012 at 7:43 PM, mdglotzbach said:

So it will cause problems she forgot her hukou in her school city months ago she's been back home for over six months her hukou was left there until last week.

no, it wouldn't cause problems.

All i'm saying is that for determining residency in china, hukou is the thing to go by.

[mdglotzbach 0]

  On 12/17/2012 at 8:43 PM, leishi said:

no, it wouldn't cause problems.

All i'm saying is that for determining residency in china, hukou is the thing to go by.

OK she's been home over six months without returning and wont return to school but hukou has been there so it seems that would have conflict with home residence. Maybe she needs to write a note about her forgotten hukou.

[Ryan H 3,853]

  On 12/17/2012 at 7:35 PM, leishi said:

If understand correctly, when Chinese students go to college, they usually move their hukou to the city where the college is at,

Not always.

[mdglotzbach 0]

What should I do about not putting school on her list of places lived on the G-325a? we just went by what my uncle had said about school not being a permanent residence, i'm sure they didn't realize anything about a hukou and she didnt think of that until now when her certificate for unmarried is from wuxi and not xuyi her hometown. should we do another G325a and bring to interview or mail in? or just not put school again on her ds230, we have listed she attended the school but didn't list it as residence because she considers her home the permanent residence. Or put school on there and put a letter stating she didn't consider school her residence and put it this time because she had brought her hukou there?

Sorry just keep thinking of many options but not sure what would be best

Edited December 18, 2012 by mdglotzbach

[leishi 11]

  On 12/18/2012 at 5:03 AM, Ryan H said:

Not always.

yeah, like i said, usually, not always.