G-325a question and expiry date

[FrancesTaber 12]

Hi Everyone,

I am new to visa journey, so please forgive me if either of these questions have been answered elsewhere. Here goes,

1) On the G-325a form, my USC fiancé and I are having a bit of difficulty filling out the "applicants residence last five years".

Here is a little background information: I am a Canadian citizen, and my fiancé is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada (born in Canada, moved to the U.S. when he was 2). He lived in my hometown in Ontario for two years after high school to play junior hockey and afterwards we attended university together in Canada from 2010-2014. Now that he is living in the U.S. and I am in Canada, we have started to gather the documents for the I-129F petition so that I can join him in the U.S.

Basically, throughout university we both used our parents addresses as our permanent address (mine in Ontario, and his in Minnesota). At first we thought it would be easiest to put what we consider our "permanent" address only (used for tax purposes, drivers licence, etc) on the G-325a form. Throughout university we moved around a lot in different student apartments, as well as in the summers for internships and therefore if we list all of those places in chronological order we will have 10+ addresses each. However, if we do not include all of these addresses, our residence history will not align with our employment history since we moved around for internships. I also lived in Michigan for 8 months as a international student so I figure I should include that since I had a F-1 student visa at the time.

My main concern is that if we do not list all the addresses, it won't be clear to whoever reads our petition that we spent several years living in the same city before he moved back to the United States. Has anyone gone through a situation similar to this and listed several addresses on the G-325a? Any advice would be appreciated.

2) This question is much more straightforward. The current G-325a form available for download says it expires on 02/28/2015. Does anyone know when/where we could find a newer version? Or is this alright as long as you mail the completed package before 02/28/2015?

Thank you in advance for any help, and I'm sorry this was such a rambling story!

[Pheebs1201 269]

My fiance (american) and I (british) only listed our permanent addresses (i.e our parents addresses) to cover our time spent in our respective universities and had no issues with this. Same when applying for my police certificate. Good luck!

[FrancesTaber 12]

Pheebs1201, thank you so much for your reply! Would you mind answering one more question?

For each of us, do we need to send the second page of the G-325a form which appears to be instructions, or just the page with the information we filled out? Thank you!

[Stir it up 4]

I'm curious about what to do with the expiration date being so close. Do I send it in, or wait for the new form? Hopefully I will have everything by next week, fiancé is shipping her gforms from Abu dhabi

[Pheebs1201 269]

Pheebs1201, thank you so much for your reply! Would you mind answering one more question?

For each of us, do we need to send the second page of the G-325a form which appears to be instructions, or just the page with the information we filled out? Thank you!

Just the form itself

I'm curious about what to do with the expiration date being so close. Do I send it in, or wait for the new form? Hopefully I will have everything by next week, fiancé is shipping her gforms from Abu dhabi

If you are mailing it before the expiration date then the old form will be fine

[Zedayn 485]

2) This question is much more straightforward. The current G-325a form available for download says it expires on 02/28/2015. Does anyone know when/where we could find a newer version? Or is this alright as long as you mail the completed package before 02/28/2015?

The expiration date of the form itself doesn't matter. What matters the most is the edition date. You can always get updated forms at http://www.uscis.gov/

For the G-325A form it states:

Edition Date

02/07/13. Previous editions accepted.

The current form available for download is fine to use.

Edited February 19, 2015 by Zedayn

[FrancesTaber 12]

You guys are wonderful! Thank you so much for the assistance!