DS5535 Question on Travel

[Jessica Meza 0]

Hello. My husband recently received the DS5535 form where it asks various questions. Amongst the questions, one is very vague, and we are having difficulty filling out the form correctly, we want to do it correctly, so we dont have any additional time added to our already long wait time. 
The question:

Please provide your travel history for the past 15 years, including the source of funding for the travel: WE ARE WANTING TO KNOW, IF ITS TRAVEL ONLY OUTSIDE OF HIS HOME COUNTRY (MEXICO), such as USA, Europe, Etc.... 

 

Has anyone already gone through this same process and question and how did you answer the question? Did you include travel within your own country?

[SalishSea 17,829]

2 minutes ago, Jessica Meza said:

Hello. My husband recently received the DS5535 form where it asks various questions. Amongst the questions, one is very vague, and we are having difficulty filling out the form correctly, we want to do it correctly, so we dont have any additional time added to our already long wait time. 
The question:

Please provide your travel history for the past 15 years, including the source of funding for the travel: WE ARE WANTING TO KNOW, IF ITS TRAVEL ONLY OUTSIDE OF HIS HOME COUNTRY (MEXICO), such as USA, Europe, Etc.... 

 

Has anyone already gone through this same process and question and how did you answer the question? Did you include travel within your own country?

It is not referring to travel within the beneficiary's country of residence - just outside that country.

[EM_Vandaveer 2,408]

5 minutes ago, Jessica Meza said:

Hello. My husband recently received the DS5535 form where it asks various questions. Amongst the questions, one is very vague, and we are having difficulty filling out the form correctly, we want to do it correctly, so we dont have any additional time added to our already long wait time. 
The question:

Please provide your travel history for the past 15 years, including the source of funding for the travel: WE ARE WANTING TO KNOW, IF ITS TRAVEL ONLY OUTSIDE OF HIS HOME COUNTRY (MEXICO), such as USA, Europe, Etc.... 

 

Has anyone already gone through this same process and question and how did you answer the question? Did you include travel within your own country?

When they say "travel history" they mean international travel.

Otherwise, technically going to work & back home would have to be included...

[Jessica Meza 0]

10 minutes ago, EM_Vandaveer said:

When they say "travel history" they mean international travel.

Otherwise, technically going to work & back home would have to be included...

So we live in a border city with El Paso Tx (he's in Cd. Juarez). He did travel into El Paso a lot by land (port of entry) to visit me when he still had his visitor permit, do we need to include this travel as well??? Or just anything past the border, as in deeper into the US. Like where he actually needed to take out an I-94 permit to travel deeper into the US

[EM_Vandaveer 2,408]

2 minutes ago, Jessica Meza said:

So we live in a border city with El Paso Tx (he's in Cd. Juarez). He did travel into El Paso a lot by land (port of entry) to visit me when he still had his visitor permit, do we need to include this travel as well??? Or just anything past the border, as in deeper into the US. Like where he actually needed to take out an I-94 permit to travel deeper into the US

Well, yes, since he crossed the border...

[Jessica Meza 0]

Just now, EM_Vandaveer said:

Well, yes, since he crossed the border...

oh noooo, from 2019-2013 there are over 500 crossings.... thats going to be extreme writing

[pushbrk 12,882]

45 minutes ago, Jessica Meza said:

oh noooo, from 2019-2013 there are over 500 crossings.... thats going to be extreme writing

Not necessarily.  You can explain just as you did above by hand writing on the form, "From date through date, there were over 500 crossings to El Paso only.

[SalishSea 17,829]

1 hour ago, pushbrk said:

Not necessarily.  You can explain just as you did above by hand writing on the form, "From date through date, there were over 500 crossings to El Paso only.

Exactly.  Detailed info on individual crossings is available electronically to the consulate.