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[Stevenkgr 0]

All,

First I would like to thank you in advance for your assistance. My father was selected for the DV. However my father was for 35 years a military officer. That means that since age 16 he has lived to so many locations ( more than 30). Most of them were military camps, or houses in small villages( in the middle of nowhere) that they do not have address. Also he was assigned to military exercises for several months to locations where there were not addresses. We are very concerned to what we shall input in this field and I would like to have your assistance.

Thank you very much for your help.

S

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

I've never seen this question before! And I'm not sure how to answer it, other than try list all the places...were they all in Greece? It is probably worth contacting the immigrant visa unit at the embassy he will be interviewing at (Athens?) for guidance.

[Stevenkgr 0]

I've never seen this question before! And I'm not sure how to answer it, other than try list all the places...were they all in Greece? It is probably worth contacting the immigrant visa unit at the embassy he will be interviewing at (Athens?) for guidance.

SussieQQQ, thank you very much for answering my question...They were not all in Greece... I have contacted a lawyer to discuss first on this... but a good idea would be contacting the Immigration office in the embassy in Greece.

Do you know what kind of mechanics they employee to check the addresses and how accurate should they be?

Best,

Stavros K

[Stevenkgr 0]

I've never seen this question before! And I'm not sure how to answer it, other than try list all the places...were they all in Greece? It is probably worth contacting the immigrant visa unit at the embassy he will be interviewing at (Athens?) for guidance.

SussieQQQ, thank you very much for answering my question...They were not all in Greece... I have contacted a lawyer to discuss first on this... but a good idea would be contacting the Immigration office in the embassy in Greece.

Do you know what kind of mechanics they employee to check the addresses and how accurate should they be?

Best,

Stavros K

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

SussieQQQ, thank you very much for answering my question...They were not all in Greece... I have contacted a lawyer to discuss first on this... but a good idea would be contacting the Immigration office in the embassy in Greece.

Do you know what kind of mechanics they employee to check the addresses and how accurate should they be?

Best,

Stavros K

If I were you I would speak to the embassy before paying a lawyer. It's the embassy who will be adjudicating the case. Some embassies are not very helpful but I don't think the Athens one is particularly overloaded with cases so hopefully you will have good luck speaking to someone helpful there.

I don't think they need to be entirely accurate - many people have to estimate dates from a couple of decades ago and not everyone can remember all their exact addresses of course. I'm wondering if in your father's case the embassy would allow him to do something like just state "attached to military, unit X, stationed in Greece" (or whatever). I really don't know though - as I said I haven't come across this before. My husband was in our military (conscripted) and stationed in various places - and obviously they saw that through his military records - but I think he just gave either his home address or the main address of his unit. That was just for 2 years though.

Technically if your father was anywhere other than Greece for longer than a year he would need a police report from that country - I'm not sure exactly how that works in the case of a military posting though. If this is relevant to him, something else to ask the embassy.