DS-230 question - address where you want green card mailed...

[Darryl 0]

Hey everyone,

I have two quick questions about the DS-230 form

1) on the DS-230 form - you have to list every entrance and exit into the US...my USC wife and I both grew up in Canada near Niagara Falls - this is right on the border to Niagara Falls NY...in turn we've been across hundreds of times to visit family or to vacation (never more than 1-2 weeks at a time), Buffalo Bills games, concerts, etc. Do you think its ok to just put "various crossings for family visits and vacations"? or would we actually have to try to remember and list the last hundred times we've crossed back and forth?

2) On the DS-230 form there is a section that asks for our address in the US. We both live in Canada and neither of us have ever lived in the US so we don't have an address to provide (yet...we plan to move once the visa is approved) - so I wrote that in that section of the form as per Montreals instructions. Than next to that box is another box asking what address in the US we want the green card mailed to...again we don't have a US address - but obviously it needs to be mailed somewhere. Could we put our parents address in Canada? If it needs to be a US address could we use a family member or friends address in the US? How long after the interview approval does the green card take to be delivered?

Any guidance on these two issues would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Darryl

[raymaga 25]

We put an attachment on the DS-230 explaining that we lived right near the Canada/U.S. border and that we traveled to the U.S. on numerous occasions, too lengthy to list, for shopping and vacations from the time I was a child until the present, with no longer than 2 weeks stay at a time. I also listed the states that we had travelled to. I did this for myself and for my daughter and we had no problems.

How is it that neither one of you have ever lived in the U.S.? Just curious.

Edited April 18, 2007 by raymaga

[Darryl 0]

Thanks for the reply, thats what I'll do also.

My wifes mom is a USC but her dad is a Canadian citizen - both lived in Canada for the last 15-20 years. My wife got her citizenship through her USC mom but still lived in Canada. So she got her citizenship but we've never lived there...yet.

Darryl