Confusion over conflicting guidance for certain questions on I-129F

[poochopolis 5]

Hi all,

 

I have been using the line by line guide via the USCIS website to aid in completing the application. However, I'm confused over a few questions and I thought maybe someone else has experience with this.

 

Question A:  Part 1 (about you, the petitioner section) Your address history

 

The guide says to provide all addresses you've lived the previous 5 years. The application however says: provide your addresses whether inside or outside US for the first five years, provide your current address first if it is different from your mailing address that you provided for questions 8a. 

 

I interpreted this as: put my addresses for the past five years, but don't put my current address in space number 1 since it IS NOT different than the mailing address I already provided, but the form itself already has PRESENT filled in for "date to".

 

So, even though my mailing address and physical address are the same, should I still be putting the address down anyways?

 

Question B: Part 2: Information about your beneficiary;

 

Question 37 asks if they have ever been in the US. Then it says if they are currently in the U.S. to complete item numbers 38.a - 38.b  (Of which, the questions ask for their most recent arrival status e.g. visitor, student, etc.) and then asks for their I-94 arrival - departure record number. However, the guide instructions say to provide your beneficiary's most recent visit to the U.S. and their I-194 record

 

So, if he isn't currently in the U.S. do I say N/A OR do I go ahead and complete it for when he was last in the U.S. in 2003? 

 

Thank you in advance for your time!

 

 

[jp1000 25]

We found some of the forms irritating in that they had locked fields so you can't type in them for some reason, or the phone number field won't allow enough characters. 

 

Sometimes we had to use a tool to manually write over the PDF where we couldn't write in the fields, or I would inspect element on firefox to unlock the field.

 

I don't think it would be a problem to simply include your current address there if there is still room for previous addresses.

 

 

For question B, when we filled it out I had been in the US before so we checked 'Yes' for that, but I wasn't in the US when we submitted so we left the "If your beneficiary is currently in the United States" question blank.

[Chancy 6,241]

21 hours ago, poochopolis said:

Question 37 asks if they have ever been in the US. Then it says if they are currently in the U.S. to complete item numbers 38.a - 38.b  (Of which, the questions ask for their most recent arrival status e.g. visitor, student, etc.) and then asks for their I-94 arrival - departure record number. However, the guide instructions say to provide your beneficiary's most recent visit to the U.S. and their I-194 record

 

Interpret the instructions literally.  If your beneficiary has ever been to the US, select "Yes" for item 37.  If your beneficiary is currently not in the US, write "N/A" for items 38.a to 38.h.  No need for I-94 record.