Filing for Spousal Visa when Spouse is working outside home country

[Nitas_man 3,100]

3 minutes ago, pushbrk said:

There are no permanent address questions, only present, past and intended address in the US.

Again, there are no "permanent address" questions as part of this process.

Whatever dude.  So I'm staring right now at an interview-ready printed out DS-260 and it's got both.  

The I-130 has two: Residence and mailing for the benificiary.  If she wants Philipines:. Residence Philippines mailing Saudi.  If she wants Saudi, both residence and mailing Saudi.  The petition and DS-260 need to be filled out based on what the OP wants to do.

[Nitas_man 3,100]

12 minutes ago, pushbrk said:

For a petition filed in the US, the interview date would be assigned by the National Visa Center and you would already know the date of your interview before you did your medical exam.  The space of time between medical and interview was determined by YOU doing the medical.  It is quite common to do the medical exam from 2 to 10 days prior to the already scheduled interview.  

 

Please be careful what you say.  Riyadh is not faster than Manila or any other Consular Immigrant Visa Unit.

We're IV'ing through Riyadh for the second time.  Example:  I emailed that we were ready for interview on Thursday, that Sunday (today) was medical, and that we could interview any time after the 5th.  They emailed us an appt today for the 8th.

I've been here 7 years.  The expat community is tight here.  Last time was even faster and our processing time reflects everyone else's.  They are very, very quick.  They sent packet III/IV together both times.

So I am sharing experience only.  A lot of it.

The DS-260 has residence and permanent.  The I-130 has residence and mailing.

[pushbrk 12,894]

13 minutes ago, Nitas_man said:

Whatever dude.  So I'm staring right now at an interview-ready printed out DS-260 and it's got both.  

The I-130 has two: Residence and mailing for the benificiary.  If she wants Philipines:. Residence Philippines mailing Saudi.  If she wants Saudi, both residence and mailing Saudi.  The petition and DS-260 need to be filled out based on what the OP wants to do.

NO, NO, NO.  She does not currently reside in the Philippines.  She must enter the address where she actually LIVES as her physical address.  You don't pick and choose addresses.  You answer direct questions ACCURATELY.

 

There is no room for a "whatever" attitude in this process.

[pushbrk 12,894]

Just now, Nitas_man said:

We're IV'ing through Riyadh for the second time.  Example:  I emailed that we were ready for interview on Thursday, that Sunday (today) was medical, and that we could interview any time after the 5th.  They emailed us an appt today for the 8th.

I've been here 7 years.  The expat community is tight here.  Last time was even faster and our processing time reflects everyone else's.  They are very, very quick.  They sent packet III/IV together both times.

So I am sharing experience only.  A lot of it.

The DS-260 has residence and permanent.  The I-130 has residence and mailing.

You still had to wait for a petition to be approved and go through the National Visa Center.  If you are BOTH living there, sometimes petition approval by USCIS is auto expedited, but that is not the OP's circumstance.

[pushbrk 12,894]

8 minutes ago, Nitas_man said:

The DS-260 has residence and permanent.  The I-130 has residence and mailing.

The DS-260 uses the term permanent address as a "heading" but under that heading is the question, "Do you have an address in the United States where you intend to live?"  There is no point in the process where you are able to distinguish a permanent address in any other country than the USA.  The "heading" Permanent Address is there, but the address you enter, IF ANY, may or may not be "permanent".  Often the address entered there is intended to be very temporary.  

[Nitas_man 3,100]

4 minutes ago, pushbrk said:

NO, NO, NO.  She does not currently reside in the Philippines.  She must enter the address where she actually LIVES as her physical address.  You don't pick and choose addresses.  You answer direct questions ACCURATELY.

 

There is no room for a "whatever" attitude in this process.

 

6 minutes ago, pushbrk said:

You still had to wait for a petition to be approved and go through the National Visa Center.  If you are BOTH living there, sometimes petition approval by USCIS is auto expedited, but that is not the OP's circumstance.

That is accurate.  Our "permanent" address is in the US.  Our "residence" address (and mailing) is in Saudi.  I'll let you know if that's a problem after next week lol.  

 

Already advised OP to use her KSA address for both.  You missed that.  If she intends to leave KSA during the process, then she needs to use her permenant home address.

 

KSA does NOT have permanent residency.  Only temporary sponsorship by companies.  It's gray and our consulate recognizes that.

 

We were talking about the embassy and how they handle IV cases, not the NVC.

 

[pushbrk 12,894]

7 minutes ago, Nitas_man said:

 

That is accurate.  Our "permanent" address is in the US.  Our "residence" address (and mailing) is in Saudi.  I'll let you know if that's a problem after next week lol.  

 

Already advised OP to use her KSA address for both.  You missed that.  If she intends to leave KSA during the process, then she needs to use her permenant home address.

 

KSA does NOT have permanent residency.  Only temporary sponsorship by companies.  It's gray and our consulate recognizes that.

 

We were talking about the embassy and how they handle IV cases, not the NVC.

 

My point about the permanent address is, before you declare it, your case has already been assigned to the Consulate where you actually live.  You can ask to have the case reassigned to country of citizenship instead of residence but "permanent address" is not part of that process.  The DS260 won't ALLOW entry of a foreign address in the "Permanent Address" section because the section doesn't really ask for a permanent address.  It asks you to enter the US address IF, AND ONLY IF you have one where you intend to live.

 

YOU are talking about how the Embassy handles cases but that's only the very last part of the process.  The only difference between Riyadh and the vast Majority of Consular IV units is  how the interview date gets assigned.  That does NOT mean it's "quicker". 

 

You submit the DS260 at the NVC stage, BEFORE the case is sent to the IV unit.

 

Edited October 29, 2017 by pushbrk

[Nitas_man 3,100]

7 minutes ago, pushbrk said:

The DS-260 uses the term permanent address as a "heading" but under that heading is the question, "Do you have an address in the United States where you intend to live?"  There is no point in the process where you are able to distinguish a permanent address in any other country than the USA.  The "heading" Permanent Address is there, but the address you enter, IF ANY, may or may not be "permanent".  Often the address entered there is intended to be very temporary.  

Nope sorry.  No heading.  It's been awhile for you I think.

"May or may not?"  What's that There is no "may or may not" on an immigration form.  Remember what you said?  Accurately.  Permanent means where your cars are parked and registered and where the state sends your mail while you are working overseas as a company sponsored employee.

[pushbrk 12,894]

38 minutes ago, Nitas_man said:

Nope sorry.  No heading.  It's been awhile for you I think.

"May or may not?"  What's that There is no "may or may not" on an immigration form.  Remember what you said?  Accurately.  Permanent means where your cars are parked and registered and where the state sends your mail while you are working overseas as a company sponsored employee.

It hasn't been a while.  I was describing and quoting from the official sample DS260 here. https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/DS-260 Exemplar.pdf

 

The term "Permanent Address" followed by the question I put in quotes, begins on page 11.

 

In this context, permanent address does not MEAN what you think it means. However, in some cases, apparently yours, the address you entered may well be where your cars are parked. etc.... but that is generally not the case and WILL NOT be the case for the OP.  It may well be the address where her husband parks his car.

 

Again, the address the immigrant intends to live in the US is not preceded by a yes/no question, so "To Be Determined" is sometimes the correct answer.  Often the USC does not KNOW where THEY are going to live once the immigrant arrives.  Often they KNOW it won't be their current address.

 

Beginning tomorrow,....I.... will not HAVE a "permanent address" anywhere in the world.  For a short time, at least, I won't have a mailing address either.  Of course I'm not involved in an immigrant visa process for any member of MY family at the present time.  Now, if I needed to answer the actual question that's on the DS260, the question not the DS260 itself, I would answer YES, and enter one of my daughters' addresses, whichever one I would stay with temporarily, if that were actually the case.  For the moment, (beginning tomorrow) I will no address at all, unless you count the address of a hotel I'll be staying at for the first 5 days of an undetermined time abroad.

 

Get the picture?  This is neither my first, second or 100th "Rodeo".

Edited October 29, 2017 by pushbrk