beneficiaries work history for g325a

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I am trying to complete my G325A. I am the beneficiary (UK citizen) for the I129F we are hoping to file soon.

I was wondering if you can help me because I am stressing a little about the address and employment history parts. I want to make sure I am completely accurate and present the info correctly.

My history is a little complicated. To give you some background, I did my undergraduate degree in America and was there for 5 years from 2006 to 2011 (4 years in college and 1 year doing OPT on my F1 student visa). Ironically I met my fiance after all this on a visit back to California at the end of 2011 on VWP.

So I have jobs and addresses scattered between the UK and US for the last 5 years. Should I write a short explanation of this somewhere or just let the officer inspecting our package look it up for himself why I was living and working in America? As there is nowhere else in the packet I have spoken about my F1 visa because it was right after my F1 ended and I came back on VWP that I met my fiance.

As to listing my employment and address history. I stayed at my parents in England every summer and over winter break between terms at college in California. Do I put that in each time between American addresses like this -

1. College address Aug 06 - Dec 06

2. Home address Dec 06 - Jan 07

3. College address Jan 07 - June 07

4. Home address June 07 - Aug 07

5. College address Aug 07 - Dec 07

6...etc etc until November 2011?

Then for my employment, I was working 2 jobs simultaneously for a while during my OPT, I have heard you cannot show an overlap, so how do I deal with that?

I also was doing some modeling and would get the odd one day of work on a photoshoot here and there as just a one off thing. Do I put each of those in as well, again those were on top of my other 2 jobs, and I have no idea what company or address to put in for that.

Finally I am concerned, as I know that during OPT on an F1 visa you are meant to find employment directly related to the field of your major. I believe that they could argue some of these jobs are not directly related to theatre (my major) and so if they wanted to they could say I was violating the terms of my work authorization. Is this something they will think about - it is a subjective thing as there is no hard and fast rule about what jobs are related to theatre studies and what aren't, and could it lead to me being denied for a K1?

Sorry for such a long post. I have already had a few sleepless nights over the bloody G325a!

Any thoughts at all would be greatly appreciated!

Thankyou.

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Anyone have any thoughts at all?

[VanessaTony 3,567]

You've over-thinking it (which I know is easy to do during this process!)

Address wise, yes what you wrote is fine. They'll know why you lived in the US so don't stress about that.

Employment wise, write the jobs that don't overlap and then, if you like, include an attachment that states you worked as a model for X company from X to X, and that you also worked for X from X to X. A lot of people work more than one job (I had 3 at one point... pain in the butt to co-ordinate sometimes!).

They won't really look into the job you're working supposed to be in your field, or they shouldn't. The fact that you violated your OPT by working jobs not in your field shouldn't affect your K1 visa. You could argue various reasons for it being "related" if they tried.

The G-325A is just information so they know you are you. It helps with background checks and all that. You, Jane Smith would be different from the Jane Smith also from the UK but who lived in different places and worked at different places.

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You've over-thinking it (which I know is easy to do during this process!)

Address wise, yes what you wrote is fine. They'll know why you lived in the US so don't stress about that.

Employment wise, write the jobs that don't overlap and then, if you like, include an attachment that states you worked as a model for X company from X to X, and that you also worked for X from X to X. A lot of people work more than one job (I had 3 at one point... pain in the butt to co-ordinate sometimes!).

They won't really look into the job you're working supposed to be in your field, or they shouldn't. The fact that you violated your OPT by working jobs not in your field shouldn't affect your K1 visa. You could argue various reasons for it being "related" if they tried.

The G-325A is just information so they know you are you. It helps with background checks and all that. You, Jane Smith would be different from the Jane Smith also from the UK but who lived in different places and worked at different places.

Thanks so much! very helpful. Yes I know I am guilty of a lot of overthinking

So with the address and employment history, as I cant fit all of either my jobs or addresses in the boxes provided, do I start on the form and then continue on an extra sheet of paper when i run out of lines or do I just do the lot on a seperate page and just write "see attached" in the boxes for addresses and employment on the G325a ?

Thanks again

[VanessaTony 3,567]

Thanks so much! very helpful. Yes I know I am guilty of a lot of overthinking

So with the address and employment history, as I cant fit all of either my jobs or addresses in the boxes provided, do I start on the form and then continue on an extra sheet of paper when i run out of lines or do I just do the lot on a seperate page and just write "see attached" in the boxes for addresses and employment on the G325a ?

Thanks again

Up to you which way you do the attachment. Personally I filled the boxes except the last on then said "see attachment". For my attachment I started it at the start again so it was all listed on the sheet.

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Up to you which way you do the attachment. Personally I filled the boxes except the last on then said "see attachment". For my attachment I started it at the start again so it was all listed on the sheet.

Thankyou