"physically lived together" or "Never lived together" ??

[Chee88 10]

Hi, my spouse and I want to file CR-1 visa. 

For the form I-130, I have a question in Part 4.

"If filing for your spouse, provide the last address at which you physically lived together. If you never lived together. type or print, "Never lived together" in Item Number 59.a."

 

I'm a Japanese citizen and traveled/ lived in a couple of different countries in past 5 years, I have not really lived in Japan during in relationship with my American spouse...

 

1. Met my wife in Dec2018 during my trip for 10 days with visitor visa. *I had my living address in France.

2. I visited my wife in Apr-May2019 for 10 days with visitor visa. *I had my living address in France.

3. I came to the US from France and stayed in the US for 3 months with visitor visa.

4. I moved to Canada for study and stayed for 6 months. I visited her for 10 days during Christmas with visitor visa. She visited me in Canada for 5 days.

5. I'm in the US for 2.5 months with visitor visa and we got married last weekend. I'll fly back to Japan and will stay there until my visa is approved.

 

On the 3 and 5, I traveled in the US with my wife for her work. But she has a living address.

Should I put those term as lived together and put her address in my address history even though I was in the US with visitor visa??

Or should I put my home address in Japan on my address history during the term even though I haven't been back to Japan?

 

I know my history is complicated...

I hope someone can help me out...

Thank you for your help!!

[Uiyl 56]

1 hour ago, Chee88 said:

Hi, my spouse and I want to file CR-1 visa. 

For the form I-130, I have a question in Part 4.

"If filing for your spouse, provide the last address at which you physically lived together. If you never lived together. type or print, "Never lived together" in Item Number 59.a."

 

I'm a Japanese citizen and traveled/ lived in a couple of different countries in past 5 years, I have not really lived in Japan during in relationship with my American spouse...

 

1. Met my wife in Dec2018 during my trip for 10 days with visitor visa. *I had my living address in France.

2. I visited my wife in Apr-May2019 for 10 days with visitor visa. *I had my living address in France.

3. I came to the US from France and stayed in the US for 3 months with visitor visa.

4. I moved to Canada for study and stayed for 6 months. I visited her for 10 days during Christmas with visitor visa. She visited me in Canada for 5 days.

5. I'm in the US for 2.5 months with visitor visa and we got married last weekend. I'll fly back to Japan and will stay there until my visa is approved.

 

On the 3 and 5, I traveled in the US with my wife for her work. But she has a living address.

Should I put those term as lived together and put her address in my address history even though I was in the US with visitor visa??

Or should I put my home address in Japan on my address history during the term even though I haven't been back to Japan?

 

I know my history is complicated...

I hope someone can help me out...

Thank you for your help!!

If it helps, I visited my husband in the U. S with visitors visa and stayed there for 5 months during which time we got married. I also got back to my country after the wedding. When filling the I-130 and DS-260, we put my husband's address as one of the addresses I lived at. We have bn advised by our lawyer to do so. 

[Chee88 10]

5 minutes ago, Uiyl said:

If it helps, I visited my husband in the U. S with visitors visa and stayed there for 5 months during which time we got married. I also got back to my country after the wedding. When filling the I-130 and DS-260, we put my husband's address as one of the addresses I lived at. We have bn advised by our lawyer to do so. 

Thank you, Uiyl!! It is a big tip as your lawyer told so!!

Thank you so much!!

[Chancy 6,243]

On 10/8/2020 at 2:52 AM, Chee88 said:

Should I put those term as lived together and put her address in my address history even though I was in the US with visitor visa??

Or should I put my home address in Japan on my address history during the term even though I haven't been back to Japan?

 

I know my history is complicated...

I hope someone can help me out...

 

No need to worry.  It's not really complicated.  Foreign nationals with USC loved ones go through similar situations all the time.

 

In our case, my husband and I were very concerned about strictly keeping to the terms of my tourist visa.  Being on a tourist visa does not allow residing in the US.  So we did not want to declare in any document submitted to the US government that I used my tourist visa to live in the US.

 

For that question on the I-130, we put "Never lived together - Only visits".  My address history only has my residence in my home country even if I stayed with my husband for 1 to 2 months at a time when I visited.  Then we packed our evidence of bona fide marriage with proof of those visits.

 

[Chee88 10]

 

27 minutes ago, Chancy said:

 

No need to worry.  It's not really complicated.  Foreign nationals with USC loved ones go through similar situations all the time.

 

In our case, my husband and I were very concerned about strictly keeping to the terms of my tourist visa.  Being on a tourist visa does not allow residing in the US.  So we did not want to declare in any document submitted to the US government that I used my tourist visa to live in the US.

 

For that question on the I-130, we put "Never lived together - Only visits".  My address history only has my residence in my home country even if I stayed with my husband for 1 to 2 months at a time when I visited.  Then we packed our evidence of bona fide marriage with proof of those visits.

 

Thank you for your reply. That make sense too. That was one of my concern too.

As I have answered that "Visiting my friends" at the boarder controls every time when I entered the US.

I talk with my partner when she comes back from work and we will decide together. 

It was good to know that either way "never lived together" or "lived together with visitor visa", there are people have granted visas!!

On 10/7/2020 at 12:59 PM, Uiyl said:

If it helps, I visited my husband in the U. S with visitors visa and stayed there for 5 months during which time we got married. I also got back to my country after the wedding. When filling the I-130 and DS-260, we put my husband's address as one of the addresses I lived at. We have bn advised by our lawyer to do so. 

 

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