Hi all,
I am new here. My fiance and I are just about ready to mail in our i129F and our supporting documents, but we have several questions regarding the I-129F form. I know this is a long read but I think many of these questions must be common?
I'm deathly afraid I'm going to format something incorrectly and be rejected (i.e., confusing foreign address, misunderstanding about my previous workplace, etc.).
In general, I am curious how exact formatting of addresses and such needs to be. Obviously one must be as detailed and exact as possible, but occasionally there are discrepancies in address formats, or arbitrary decisions of where to put something as trivial as Building number (foreign addresses can be confusing).
I imagine human beings will be processing these documents, so there must be some degree of thoughtful consideration given by the employees processing these documents, but I am not sure how much.
Here are some of my questions. Unfortunately, I will need all of these questions answered before I will feel comfortable sending in the i-129F.
Are these valid concerns or am I being paranoid?
1. I ve filled out the entire form in caps lock. Is this ok?
2. When there is not much space in an address box, can you type two lines of smaller text to fit it in, as long as it s easily legible?
3. Here's a head-scratcher: My previous job was for a software agency. My business cards had their logo on it, my LinkedIn profile lists them as my employer, I listed them on my CV/resume, and I generally considered myself their employee. However, I billed them through a second middleman type of company, which actually transferred my paycheck each month. This second company provided me with my work permit and kept a percentage of my salary. For legal and tax purposes, I was actually the employee of the second company, while the first company was technically my client. Which company should I put on my resume? If I put the first company, I fear it won t carry legal weight, but if I put the second company, then it won t match with my LinkedIn profile and my CV/resume. Could this sort of issue screw up an application or is it not a huge deal? Should I try to enter the company that was on my tax return?
4. For past countries lived in since 18th birthday, does it matter what order I put them in? I.e. in chronological order, starting with most recent, or in chronological orderstarting with earliest?
5. For one or two of my previous addresses, I cannot remember the exact day I started/ended the lease. I can remember the month, and even the week, but I don t have the lease agreement. In one case, I do have the lease agreement, but I put in my 1-month notice of vacation via text message and I don t remember the exact day I moved out. Is it ok to put my best guess, knowing it is at least the correct month, and probably within a few days accuracy? How picky is the USCIS about something like this?
6. One of the places I lived was 34 1/2 Lincoln street (using fake street name for privacy, but it did have 1/2 in the name). When I was signing up for cable internet, the company was unable to locate 34 1/2 Lincoln street in their database (although 34 Lincoln St. was not a problem), and it also does not show up on Google maps. If I put 34 1/2 Lincoln St. and USCIS can t find it in their system, what happens? Should I just put 34 Lincoln St. instead?
7. I lived in my fiance s country for many years. On some previous address sections, the space given for the address is insufficient (not enough lines). In this case, should I leave it blank and just put a note saying, See Page 13 or See Attached or even See Section 8, 4.a-d and then put the whole address on page 13? I thought this might be a nice, considerate solution, but not sure.. I also thought of putting as much of the address as I can fit into these sections, and then putting the full address on page 13. But if I do this, I fear the USCIS employee might just use the first, incomplete address I provide.
8. For Part 8 (Additional Information), is it acceptable to put a range of item numbers in the ItemNumber box? For example, when listing a past employer, I listed Page Number 2, Part Numer 1, Item Number 17, 18, 19 so that I could include the Employer name, address, and my position in that same box.
9. Also regarding Part 8, is it necessary that the data in the boxes follows the order of the rest of the form? There were a few cases where I realized I needed extra space on something earlier in the form, so I had to fill out a box in Part 8 that was actually after a number of other boxes, so it kind of jumps around (although you can easily associate each box with the part of the form it references based on the Page Number, Part Number, Item Number indexing).
Thank you SO MUCH for reading this far! I hope I can quickly make any necessary adjustments to my I-129F after receiving some responses to this, and soon my fiance and I can be on our journey!
Douglas n Janya
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