Is an "entity" or "County" the same as a province on the I-129F form?

[eirinlinn 105]

My fiance is from Bosnia and lives in the upper entity called Republika Srpska. He also worked for a short time in croatia where there exists "counties". What do I put in the fields for "province" in the address areas for him? Would I just put N/A because the regions he is/was living isn't considered a "province"?

[NotPennysBoat 20]

11 hours ago, eirinlinn said:

My fiance is from Bosnia and lives in the upper entity called Republfika Srpska. He also worked for a short time in croatia where there exists "counties". What do I put in the fields for "province" in the address areas for him? Would I just put N/A because the regions he is/was living isn't considered a "province"?

Province would be similar to Oblasts in Jugoslavija or Russia. I  had the same question and ended up putting N/A for Province because of Lithuania's mailing format. 

I would ask your fiance for his address as it written on his mail and just use that. If his mail includes a Regional Identifier (for example: Moscow Oblast if he lived in Russia), then include it.
Otherwise don't.

Bosnian addresses are formated as such:  "Moševićka 115, Podlugovi 71387, Bosnia & Herzegovina"  (Street Address, Address Number, City/Town, Postal Code, Country). It doesn't look like you would need to include anything in the province field.
Croatian addresses don't use regions either, so I would put N/A in the province field for them as well.

[E&W 146]

NotPennysBoat is right, you don't put regions for Croatian addresses either, my ID has no region or county listed, neither does the passport. I think the only times I had to add the županija as we call them, was maybe in some tax form (internal to Croatia I mean). 
Address format for Croatia is Street Address, House Number, Postal Code, City/Town, Country.
Hope this helps.

Edited January 21, 2020 by E&W

[eirinlinn 105]

On 1/21/2020 at 7:22 AM, E&W said:

NotPennysBoat is right, you don't put regions for Croatian addresses either, my ID has no region or county listed, neither does the passport. I think the only times I had to add the županija as we call them, was maybe in some tax form (internal to Croatia I mean). 
Address format for Croatia is Street Address, House Number, Postal Code, City/Town, Country.
Hope this helps.

Do you know what your fiance put on the form pertaining to the province? Did he put N/A or just leave it blank? I'm nervous because his mailing address seems kinda strange and I'm worried about in case he doesn't receive the notifications from the embassy? 

 

 

 

[eirinlinn 105]

On 1/20/2020 at 7:01 PM, NotPennysBoat said:

Province would be similar to Oblasts in Jugoslavija or Russia. I  had the same question and ended up putting N/A for Province because of Lithuania's mailing format. 

I would ask your fiance for his address as it written on his mail and just use that. If his mail includes a Regional Identifier (for example: Moscow Oblast if he lived in Russia), then include it.
Otherwise don't.

Bosnian addresses are formated as such:  "Moševićka 115, Podlugovi 71387, Bosnia & Herzegovina"  (Street Address, Address Number, City/Town, Postal Code, Country). It doesn't look like you would need to include anything in the province field.
Croatian addresses don't use regions either, so I would put N/A in the province field for them as well.

I just hope the address isn't read by a machine. Do you think I'm going to run into problems with delivery if I put the N/A fields in as N/A?

Did your fiance receive anything yet or are you still in the waiting game? 

 

[E&W 146]

34 minutes ago, eirinlinn said:

Do you know what your fiance put on the form pertaining to the province? Did he put N/A or just leave it blank? I'm nervous because his mailing address seems kinda strange and I'm worried about in case he doesn't receive the notifications from the embassy? 

 

 

 

He put in N/A. And you don't have to worry, embassies know how addresses work in specific countries, it's a part of their job. And, if that doesn't reassure you, there are local people working in the embassies, it's not just US officials. 

[NotPennysBoat 20]

37 minutes ago, eirinlinn said:

Do you know what your fiance put on the form pertaining to the province? Did he put N/A or just leave it blank? I'm nervous because his mailing address seems kinda strange and I'm worried about in case he doesn't receive the notifications from the embassy? 

 

 

 

I would just put it as it appears on his mail. If there is no region, then there isn't one. 

 

[NotPennysBoat 20]

 

52 minutes ago, eirinlinn said:

(1) I just hope the address isn't read by a machine. (2) Do you think I'm going to run into problems with delivery if I put the N/A fields in as N/A?

Did your fiance receive anything yet or are you still in the waiting game? 

 

Well, I recieved a $535 charge on my card yesterday, but not even a NOA1 yet 😂. I asked this same question a week before you did, and didn't receive any good answers, so I apologize that I cannot be of much help. I mostly used threads from 2018 - 2019 to help fill out my I-129F as the Form Instructions were different in 2017.

As you know, the instructions say to put N/A for fields that don't apply to you, and None for numbers that don't apply (A-Number, SSN, etc).

(1) Plenty of people still write with pens on their I-129F's so I don't think it would be an issue.  (2) For my fiancee's mailing info, I manually wrote in N/A for the state, and I typed N/A into the other address fields that didn't apply to my her (excluding In Care Of, I left that blank). I did the same for fields that didn't apply to me (Province & Postal Code). I used N/A in the same manner for the Interpreter and Preparer parts. Granted, you could probably leave those blank, but I didn't.

 

Also, what do you mean by delivery?
 

 

FYI : Just do not put N/A or None as your fiance's middle name (if he doesn't have one). Leave that blank. 

I can send you my form if you are curious (would remove personal info). I'm not saying mine is the best way, but I filled the Form out as logically as I could (based on information from here and common sense). No need to worry about the Form.
USCIS employees process these every day, and as long as you answer all the questions correctly and honestly,  sign it, and provide the required documents, you will be fine!



 

Edited January 23, 2020 by NotPennysBoat

[eirinlinn 105]

2 minutes ago, NotPennysBoat said:

 

Well, I recieved a $535 charge on my card yesterday, but not even a NOA1 yet 😂. I asked this same question a week before you did, and didn't receive any good answers, so I apologize that I cannot be of much help. I mostly used threads from 2018 - 2019 to help fill out my I-129F as the Form Instructions were different in 2017.

As you know, the instructions say to put N/A for fields that don't apply to you, and None for numbers that don't apply (A-Number, SSN, etc).

(1) Plenty of people still write with pens on their I-129F's so I don't think it would be an issue.  (2) For my fiancee's mailing info, I manually wrote in N/A for the state, and I typed N/A into the other address fields that didn't apply to my her (excluding In Care Of, I left that blank). I did the same for fields that didn't apply to me (Province & Postal Code). I used N/A in the same manner for the Interpreter and Preparer parts. Granted, you could probably leave those blank, but I didn't.

 

Also, what do you mean by delivery?
 

 

FYI : Just do not put N/A or None as your fiance's middle name (if he doesn't have one). Leave that blank. 

I can send you my form if you are curious (would remove personal info). I'm not saying mine is the best way, but I filled the Form out as logically as I could (based on information from here and common sense). No need to worry about the Form.
USCIS employees process these every day, and as long as you answer all the questions correctly and honestly,  sign it, and provide the required documents, you will be fine!



 

I put N/A for his middle name. Why should I not?

[NotPennysBoat 20]

3 minutes ago, eirinlinn said:

I put N/A for his middle name. Why should I not?

Apparently people have had N/A or None put as their middle name on their Green Cards. 

[payxibka 10,045]

6 minutes ago, eirinlinn said:

I put N/A for his middle name. Why should I not?

Because sometimes they input N/A as the middle name 

[eirinlinn 105]

1 minute ago, NotPennysBoat said:

Apparently people have had N/A or None put as their middle name on their Green Cards. 

Oh geez, surely no one can be that stupid?! XD oh shoot. okay I guess I'll just leave it blank

 

[NotPennysBoat 20]

1 minute ago, eirinlinn said:

Oh geez, surely no one can be that stupid?! XD oh shoot. okay I guess I'll just leave it blank

 

Well None is a legitimate name apparently... N/A though... 

[eirinlinn 105]

24 minutes ago, NotPennysBoat said:

Well None is a legitimate name apparently... N/A though... 

Glad I'm finding this out now when I'm able to reprint everything 😂

[eirinlinn 105]

53 minutes ago, payxibka said:

Because sometimes they input N/A as the middle name 

So I reprinted it out without anything on the field of the middle name; however I left fields and sections blank in regards to middle name irrelevant zip codes, provinces.
 

but I input N/A on fields like I..e if your beneficiary is currently in the United’s states fill in these fields, your information about beneficiary’s children (neither of us have children) etc... 

 

does that sound about right?