Residence History and Travelling

[mwills 0]

Hi there,

Just a couple of small questions... Thanks for any help.

1) Over the last couple of years I have travelled a lot in various countries and continents, with no fixed address aside from my one in England and my Fiancee's address in states. For one of these trips, I was with my gf (now fiancee). On the G325a, for this time period, should I write my living address as my home in England, or specify that I was travelling with her, and should she do the same?

2) I also visited her in the USA and she visited me in England during the past two years. Each of these visits was for a couple of months. Again, I was wondering if we should label our home addresses in our own (home) countries or to say that we 'lived' abroad for those couple of months.

3) Lastly, we are compiling our forms now and will be sending off shortly. I'm currently working abroad (South Korea), but I will be heading home in a couple of months. I have written my current address as my one here in Korea. Shall I change it to the address that I'll be going home to in England?

Again, thanks so much for any help. This website has been absolutely brilliant and I hope I'll be able to help people in the future.

[CaroSL 68]

2) I also visited her in the USA and she visited me in England during the past two years. Each of these visits was for a couple of months. Again, I was wondering if we should label our home addresses in our own (home) countries or to say that we 'lived' abroad for those couple of months.

Technically when you visited your residency didn't change... I visited my fiancé for a month and then for 3 months, and I let my adress in France be my french residence adress. It was no problem for the I-129F petition (I mean on the G325A form we sent with the petition), although I can't tell you if it will raise questions at the interview as I am not there yet.

good luck!

[mwills 0]

That's what I thought, thanks for your help!

[goodlucklife 44]

6 months or more you must declare and police records too. Out attorney told us this. anything less not important.

[CaroSL 68]

6 months or more you must declare and police records too. Out attorney told us this. anything less not important.

This is a good point. This depends on the embassy though, because police certificates are not requested until the interview (or packet 3). Unless the USC has been convicted of something, in this case, police certificates of the USC should probably be included (check the guide: http://www.visajourney.com/content/k1guide) and it is probably a very good idea to visit the IMBRA part of this forum.

Police certificates of the benificiary are never requested as part of the I-129F package.

mwills, if you want to know the rules for police certificates, you should go check the rules for england (in england they ask for police certificates in which the applicant (ie the foreign fiancé) have been living in for more than 12 months, not 6 months). You can find the rule on the us embassy website.

How long were your travels? If it was just a few months, I would really not worry about it. Besides, you can't invent an adress right? So if your official residency was in england, then england it is. You never had a resident status in any of those countries right?

For the interview you will have to state every country you entered in the past 10 years (or since the age of 16, I don't remember, it is the same for me . You will have to give the city and state you stayed in when you visited the US. So there is a separate box to report your travels.

[CaroSL 68]

6 months or more you must declare and police records too. Out attorney told us this. anything less not important.

To complete my answer on the Police certificate, the USCIS website actually state that the applicant must give police certificates from the applicant's present country of residence and all countries where the applicant has lived for 6 months or more since age 16.

But I promess this is different from what the packet 3 I recieved is stating. I didn't notice this before, but I believe the official instruction are the one the embassy mailed me.

(I LOVE the USCIS... LOVE this process. So clear, so easy, so equal for every petitioner, every applicant and every country that even immigration institutions are not consistent in the information they are giving. LOVE it (hope you feel my irony))