DS-230 Question 25 (many visits to the US what to do?)

[takoyaki66 0]

For DS-230 Question 25 (List dates of all previous visits to or residence in the United States) what should we list if my wife has visited many times over the last 12 years? We visit at least once per year sometimes twice.

Thanks for any help!

[MaydayDas 1]

For DS-230 Question 25 (List dates of all previous visits to or residence in the United States) what should we list if my wife has visited many times over the last 12 years? We visit at least once per year sometimes twice.

Thanks for any help!

Try to remember every time your wife entered US, use an additional sheet if necessary.

[iluvmymac 0]

Try to remember every time your wife entered US, use an additional sheet if necessary.

Yes, that's what I did. I typed it out in the same format as on the form, and at the top of the page put "DS-230 Part I Item #25 Continued"

They seemed to be pleased with it, he stapled it to the form.

My wife got out her old passports to try to get as accurate as possible.

[takoyaki66 0]

Thanks for the info! (Grumbles about having to dig up all those dates.)

My wife just reminded me that we have visited an average of 3 times per year for the past 12 years. That is a lot of extra entries.

Cheers

[iluvmymac 0]

Thanks for the info! (Grumbles about having to dig up all those dates.)

My wife just reminded me that we have visited an average of 3 times per year for the past 12 years. That is a lot of extra entries.

Cheers

We all can at least be thankful that we don't need to put EXACT dates, only month and year!

[kins 0]

Thanks for the info! (Grumbles about having to dig up all those dates.)

My wife just reminded me that we have visited an average of 3 times per year for the past 12 years. That is a lot of extra entries.

Cheers

We all can at least be thankful that we don't need to put EXACT dates, only month and year!

This story may make you smile ruefully. My US citizen husband and I have three children, all born in the UK, but we wanted them all to have US citizenship. Because my husband was also born outside the US, he had to prove he had spent at least five years after the age of 18 in the US. In fact he had spent about 5 years and 2 or 3 months there, when you added it all up.

We didn't think this would be too much of a problem - he filled in a spreadsheet with all the dates he could recall, mosty using stamps from his passport and any other evidence he had.

The embassy rejected all passport stamps from non-US airports - they said they were not reliable evidence.

So after pretty much bursting into tears and hitting lots of things, he went away and got hold of letters from old employers from nearly 20 years go, university timetables and transcripts, old airline tickets, old bank and credit card statements, old utility bills... everything he could possibly find. He managed to get evidence for something like 4 years and 310 days of living in the US with definite dates in and out, then he provided evidence that he had spent at least another three months in the US but he couldn't say the exact dates - just gave a general period.

We seriously didn't think they were going to accept it, but in the end they did, and they congratulated him on having put together all his evidence and information in such an easy-to-understand and well-organised format. We have all the evidence in an A4 ring binder, and we have since used it for each subsequent child's application for US citizenship.

So in fact doing the DS-230 seemed pretty uncomplicated to us when we saw it...