DS 156 question - passport place of issuance

[Zoe&Chris 5]

Hi all,

I'm getting the embassy forms ready while waiting for my K1 case to get through NVC.

On the DS 156 it has two fields for city and province of passport issuance. I was wondering how this applies in the UK. I got a new passport this year and I just sent it off to the IPS. It came back with IPS on it and no place of issuance. I think I read something on the forum saying you can just put IPS or London in these fields, but I just wanted to check...

Can people who have been through this step recently and had their forms accepted by the embassy tell me what they put for these two fields? I really don't want them sent back because I got this wrong!

Also, while i'm on this form, when it says I need two copies do I print the same one twice (with the same barcode it generates) or do you submit the online form twice (to get two different barcodes). I'd guess two copies of the same barcode but just wanted to be sure because it says fill out in duplicate!

Thanks in advance!!

Zoe

[agnesb 47]

Passport question - http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/350185-london-2012-k1s-from-noa2-to-interview-thread/page-2?hl=%2Bpassport+%2Bplace+%2Bissuance+%2Bips#entry5174987

When you finish your ds-156 form, you wll have a pdf fille generated - just print it off twice, you dont have to re-do the form.

[Zoe&Chris 5]

Thanks I had seen this before though I just wasn't happy with the wooliness of the answer!

I know that it says whatever I put will be fine, but I was hoping for other people who had been through this stage successfully to say exactly what they had put, so that whatever I put I know it will have been accepted in the past.

If I don't get a better answer I suppose I will go with London, London. Has anyone left it blank and been OK?

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

If I don't get a better answer I suppose I will go with London, London. Has anyone left it blank and been OK?

London, England would be a better answer than London, London. I wouldn't leave it blank.

Sorry my answer in the other thread is wooly to you. The IPS is based in London, England. Isn't that a logical answer?

The barcode question--it is a barcode that is generated containing all your typed info. Print two copies and a spare one for your records. Or even photocopy the first one. Same thing. If you entered it all again and made one change, or one typo, the barcode would be different.

[Zoe&Chris 5]

Ok thanks Im never sure what to put for province, i've been taking it to mean county and therefore for towns putting bristol, bristol and london, london but maybe England is better as you suggest!

I wasn't criticising the post, more that it seems there is not a definitive answer on this for UK (as the forms are for all countries not us specifically). I guess IPS is based in London, but im pretty sure the address i sent the renewal to was in Liverpool, for example, and as our passports say nothing I would have thought N/A or none would be also acceptable but one never knows with these forms and I don't want to get delayed.

I shall put London, England, as that seems safest. I'm probaby overthinking this but when waiting for a long time thats all there is to do and I cannot shut my brain up!

Thanks for the help

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Ok thanks Im never sure what to put for province, i've been taking it to mean county and therefore for towns putting bristol, bristol and london, london but maybe England is better as you suggest!

I wasn't criticising the post, more that it seems there is not a definitive answer on this for UK (as the forms are for all countries not us specifically). I guess IPS is based in London, but im pretty sure the address i sent the renewal to was in Liverpool, for example, and as our passports say nothing I would have thought N/A or none would be also acceptable but one never knows with these forms and I don't want to get delayed.

I shall put London, England, as that seems safest. I'm probaby overthinking this but when waiting for a long time thats all there is to do and I cannot shut my brain up!

Thanks for the help

You are making me laugh because you over analyze like my English husband. I swear he can not fill out a survey or one of those silly quizzes that you are to pick the answer most like you. I wish I had a dollar for every time he has said "Well it depends". He struggled with these same forms you are now, so you aren't alone.

To put your mind at rest---I am 100% sure this one question will not make you flunk out at the embassy. Having gone the whole route now, hindsight makes you realize what is important and what isn't. The forms are for every big and tiny and remote country in the world. Some have states. Some have provinces. Some have nothing. It is one-size-fits-all and not written specifically to you in England. Have you gotten to the one asking your spouse's name and you're not married? Why would they ask that on a fiance form?It's not personal for only you and your situation. US passports happen to list the city, state where issued. This is an American form, so maybe that's where they got the question. I can't think of a reason why knowing where the passport came from has anything to do with your visa. Put Liverpool if you know where you got it.

The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has offices in:

London

Liverpool

Belfast

Durham

Glasgow

Newport

Peterborough

I'm sure any of those or even "unknown" would work. When you go to your interview, ask the officer what is the best answer since the UK passport doesn't say. Ask if blank is okay. Then come back here and tell everybody the perfect answer. Nobody has every asked and posted, so it would be helpful.

And don't hesitate to ask whatever else is going through your head. I'm used to it because I live with one like you.