physical address history

[megaladon 2]

I am sponsoring my wife and want to correctly complete my physical address history. 

 

I have been in Germany for about a year, but am a US resident for tax purposes.  I have a permanent address currently in Germany that I will use as my physical address when I apply. 

 

However, for most of the year living in Germany I was physically living in AirBnBs for a month at at time, or in hotels.  I'm not clear if I should put all those hotel addresses down, or what to do.  Also I spent a year and a half in Afghanistan with no particular physical address, just living in cargo boxes. 

 

The directions are to provide physical address, not where you legally reside, right?  So what should I do.  My legal residence (domicile) I guess during all this time could be my parent's physical address, where I keep some stuff.  But  I'm not physically living there so it doesn't seem I can do that as they want physical address.

 

I also do want to show I've been living in Germany a year so I can get local consular processing, for which I may be eligible under some of the rare special exceptions that apply to service members abroad (I'm a contractor under military command but may still qualify for exception).  So from that perspective it seems to list the half dozen AirBnBs as my address this year.

 

Any thoughts on this?  

[pushbrk 12,870]

You can summarize periods of travel, or just use, if applicable, your US address for those periods.  There are no mentions of "permanent address".  If you are living in Germany now instead of traveling and staying in hotels etc. then that is your physical address, whether "permanent" or not.