A Few I130/130A Questions to Clear Up

[SandM0812 1]

Hello everyone, my wife and I are wrapping up our i130 and i130A and we just have a few questions to clear up.

 

i130

 

1. Are we correct in assuming we can leave ,"if you answered yes, than complete x to x" questions blank if they don't apply to us? I've seen lots post on this topic and that seems to generally be the case so we're just double checking here.

 

2. On Page 8, Part 4, items 57.a to 58.f, we are unable to fill the answers with Japanese Kanji. I read elsewhere online that someone had entered, "Unable to write Japanese characters, will submit at time of interview" which is what we have entered for the time being. I might be able to get my wife to fill these in in Kanji, otherwise I wouldn't want to rely on possibly incorrect google translations. If my wife can't enter the characters, can we leave this the way we did, or should we write N/A instead?

 

3. We didn't use an interpreter or a preparer, and I wrote N/A in for most of those respective areas, probably over-zealously based on what others have said here. We however did leave the interpreter and preparer signatures areas blank. Is this alright, or should we add a few more N/A's?

 

4. On page 11, Part 8, items 7.a and 7.b are checkbox answers regarding a preparer's statement. We've written in N/A everywhere else around these, so is it okay to just leave them blank since they don't apply to us?

 

i130A

 

1. My wife is overseas and we won't be signing the form, as this isn't required, so those 2 spaces are blank. This is probably a dumb question, but bare with me. Should we fill in a date so they would have an idea when it's completed or that kind of thing just isn't necessary? It appears most of the other forms are dated, so I figured I'd ask. I have no base for asking this outside of curiosity. 

 

2. Along the same lines, we aren't going to sign the additional info page. I had asked on a previous post and the responses I got indicated we don't need to sign. Probably another dumb question, but should I at least add a date of completion? I only have her name typed at the top, as the instructions state.

 

Thank you for the help to any of these! I just want to say this community is awesome and we are so grateful for the help we've gotten so far. I don't think we would have tried to do this ourselves if we didn't stumble upon this site

 

 

 

 

 

[saladboye 166]

18 minutes ago, SandM0812 said:

Are we correct in assuming we can leave ,"if you answered yes, than complete x to x" questions blank if they don't apply to us? I've seen lots post on this topic and that seems to generally be the case so we're just double checking here.

Yes, leave blank.

 

19 minutes ago, SandM0812 said:

My wife is overseas and we won't be signing the form, as this isn't required, so those 2 spaces are blank. This is probably a dumb question, but bare with me. Should we fill in a date so they would have an idea when it's completed or that kind of thing just isn't necessary? It appears most of the other forms are dated, so I figured I'd ask. I have no base for asking this outside of curiosity. 

You can leave blank. You can write the date if needed I doubt it does anything.

 

19 minutes ago, SandM0812 said:

Along the same lines, we aren't going to sign the additional info page. I had asked on a previous post and the responses I got indicated we don't need to sign. Probably another dumb question, but should I at least add a date of completion? I only have her name typed at the top, as the instructions state.

Its fine, leave it.

 

Many people talk that they have to be accurate and not make errors. From the few instances of USCIS contact I had, these are quite competent people and fill in the gaps easily. This is more obvious if you make their life easy (come prepared, all docs, nicely labeled, typed in instead of bad handwriting etc)

[SandM0812 1]

1 minute ago, saladboye said:

Yes, leave blank.

 

You can leave blank. You can write the date if needed I doubt it does anything.

 

Its fine, leave it.

 

Many people talk that they have to be accurate and not make errors. From the few instances of USCIS contact I had, these are quite competent people and fill in the gaps easily. This is more obvious if you make their life easy (come prepared, all docs, nicely labeled, typed in instead of bad handwriting etc)

Thanks for your reply! Good to know they're competent. 

[Scott001 128]

12 minutes ago, SandM0812 said:

Hello everyone, my wife and I are wrapping up our i130 and i130A and we just have a few questions to clear up.

 

i130

 

2. On Page 8, Part 4, items 57.a to 58.f, we are unable to fill the answers with Japanese Kanji. I read elsewhere online that someone had entered, "Unable to write Japanese characters, will submit at time of interview" which is what we have entered for the time being. I might be able to get my wife to fill these in in Kanji, otherwise I wouldn't want to rely on possibly incorrect google translations. If my wife can't enter the characters, can we leave this the way we did, or should we write N/A instead?

 

3. We didn't use an interpreter or a preparer, and I wrote N/A in for most of those respective areas, probably over-zealously based on what others have said here. We however did leave the interpreter and preparer signatures areas blank. Is this alright, or should we add a few more N/A's?

 

4. On page 11, Part 8, items 7.a and 7.b are checkbox answers regarding a preparer's statement. We've written in N/A everywhere else around these, so is it okay to just leave them blank since they don't apply to us?

 

i130A

 

1. My wife is overseas and we won't be signing the form, as this isn't required, so those 2 spaces are blank. This is probably a dumb question, but bare with me. Should we fill in a date so they would have an idea when it's completed or that kind of thing just isn't necessary? It appears most of the other forms are dated, so I figured I'd ask. I have no base for asking this outside of curiosity. 

 

2. Along the same lines, we aren't going to sign the additional info page. I had asked on a previous post and the responses I got indicated we don't need to sign. Probably another dumb question, but should I at least add a date of completion? I only have her name typed at the top, as the instructions state.

 

Thank you for the help to any of these! I just want to say this community is awesome and we are so grateful for the help we've gotten so far. I don't think we would have tried to do this ourselves if we didn't stumble upon this site

 

 

 

 

 

I can't answer all your questions. But I also had the problem of writing Japanese, and for bonus points, Chinese.  On the cover letter I mentioned the I-130A isn't signed and there are no PP photos of her.  Also, our app is still pending. 

 

I-130

#2 I used Word to type in Japanese/Chinese and pasted that information in to the I-130

• Part 4 #57-58.f
• Part 4 #11 & 13-13.f; I wrote the addresses in English with a space between the numbers since the "-" was invalid. Then in  Part 9 Additional Information, I wrote the addresses in the correct format with a note saying correct format. That probably wasn't necessary. 

#3 I wrote not applicable and left the rest blank

#4 I left the space blank

 

I-130A

#1 I left it blank because she is not and did not sign it. 

#2 I didn't see anything that says to sign the Additional Information page, so I didn't do it. 

 

Hope that helps

[SandM0812 1]

40 minutes ago, Scott001 said:

I can't answer all your questions. But I also had the problem of writing Japanese, and for bonus points, Chinese.  On the cover letter I mentioned the I-130A isn't signed and there are no PP photos of her.  Also, our app is still pending. 

 

I-130

#2 I used Word to type in Japanese/Chinese and pasted that information in to the I-130

• Part 4 #57-58.f
• Part 4 #11 & 13-13.f; I wrote the addresses in English with a space between the numbers since the "-" was invalid. Then in  Part 9 Additional Information, I wrote the addresses in the correct format with a note saying correct format. That probably wasn't necessary. 

#3 I wrote not applicable and left the rest blank

#4 I left the space blank

 

I-130A

#1 I left it blank because she is not and did not sign it. 

#2 I didn't see anything that says to sign the Additional Information page, so I didn't do it. 

 

Hope that helps

thanks for the help! 

[pushbrk 13,221]

Have her type the Japanese characters in an email or document, then paste them in the appropriate spaces.

[SandM0812 1]

54 minutes ago, pushbrk said:

Have her type the Japanese characters in an email or document, then paste them in the appropriate spaces.

Thank you for the response, I translated them in Google and was able to paste them right in

[pushbrk 13,221]

6 minutes ago, SandM0812 said:

Thank you for the response, I translated them in Google and was able to paste them right in

I would consider that far less reliable than having them typed by a native Japanese, particularly with addresses.  For Chinese, for example a direct translation of an address is extremely bad.  For a name, it would be even worse.  I said what I said for a reason.  Accuracy matters.