questions about change of address for cond perm resident

[DAAG 1]

I first posted this under a related blog, then realized no one was likely to see it there as the other blog was old. We are in very similar circumstances, to another couple posting here, but didnt notice at first thier post was 3 years ago, (we're 9 mo away form 90 day window for filing to remove conditions of permanent residency), and due to resarch today, I know The conditional permanent resident can file her AR-11, change of address, either online where he or she can also let the USCIS office handling any pending, or reciently aproved petition, know of the address change, or via mailed in ar-11 form, and a call to USCIS Customer service, to cover the second part, and that I, as the US Citizen spouse must submit an I-865, to let USCIS know where the Sponsor is for the I-864, affidavit of support I filed for my wife along with the change of status, but, since there is little to no guidance on such matters, on the USCIS website, and I know from 22 years in the Navy, how easily a misplaced answer on a form can create serious problems, I do have a couple of questions about the logistics of filing the change of address:

1. If we moved to a place where our mail box is nearly 1/4 mile away from the house on a completely different street in a cluster of 5 mail boxes, on the other side of the street from the place where our road exits the street, plus the post office has reciently renamed our adress to list it on the road we live on, vice the old address on the major street it exits from, and so far no mail has ever arrived in that box, even for the previous owners/tennants, since the change, and we're now in Florida, having just moved from Kansas, Would it comply with USCIS intent, for us to use my sons address, which was established 15 years ago, about 10 miles away from our new home, where we visit every couple of days? Doing so would ensure we actually recieve mail sent by USCIS, where we may not if we give them the actual physical address we moved into. plus we already recieve all other mail at my sons house, where we put in a change of address to when we left Kansas, having no other address to change our address to, at the time we left our old home.

2. on the first line of the AR-11 where it Says, "I am in the US as a:", should conditional permanent residents mark permanent resident and write conditional beside it, or mark other and write in conditional permanent resident, which actually will not fit in the blank? I'm wondering what is normally done in this block for those about to seek a ten year green card, so that USCIS will see what they're expecting to see and know my wife is a conditional permanent resident, with less room for misinterpretation.

3. Eventhough, we arent actually waiting for aproval of a case, all of our paperwork was last being handled at a different USCIS office for Kansas than we now must use for florida, and they had all our papers at the Wichita, Ks office when we went for the Change Of Status Interview, Would it be prudent, and or allowed for us to also let those two offices know of our change of address, eventhough we got the approval for the change of status and recieved her 2 year green card a year ago, since it seems to me were in essence continuing the same process, when we apply for the removal of conditions, and all the papework we submitted for previous applications will still be needed, and they may not be able to find it without letting those other offices know of the new address?

[Beth and John 7]

The sponsor and the non-US citizen (especially one with an application pending, and in other circumstances as well) both and separately need to report the change of address. You need to report the address where you physically live. What happens if they want to do an interview at your home and the address you gave is not the address at which you live? Not good would come of that. Here is the link to the USCIS site where it explains what a non-US citizen needs to do to submit change of address online. Sponsors have to mail in their change of address.

USCIS Online Change of Address

There many a post on this in the forums as well

[Beth and John 7]

You only need report the change of address to USCIS, not the other locations. You need to mark the box with your/your wife's current status, not what is going to happen. So if she is a conditional permanent resident now/when you file the change of address form, indicate that (use the other box if in doubt and I just tried, conditional permanent resident will fit in the box). For the non-US citizen, it is an online form.