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On my spouse's I-130A, she listed her parents name. Each parent has no last name and no middle name. They do not have any last name. In her culture they don't use last names in older generations, and new generations might have a unique last name for every family member, instead of a shared last name. Her biological sister from the same parents has a different last name, for example. Generally, in the forums I have found that the advice is to leave it blank if there is no middle name, because the government may inadvertently put N/A or "none" as their actual middle name into the system. None is a middle name in some countries. But just having only the first name and no last name might look to an agent as if the question was not fully completed, which could also cause problems. What advice can you give about this delima?

It sounds like what I should do is this order of steps: 1. submit the I-130 with the consulate as her current country where she lives that matches her address. 2. As soon as I have a case number contact NVC (or maybe it's better to email the Germany consulate directly??) and request transfer to them on the basis that she is moving to Germany as soon as I-130 approval is granted. 3. Somehow change her address on the file to Germany after she is living with me here. 4. Start applying for the green card from Germany and interview in Germany (assuming they approved) What do you think?

A few follow up questions: 1. The beneficiary's address uses a village addressing system not a proper street address. The instructions say to leave the street address lines blank if it's not a street address. But this could cause problems, if they need to mail anything to her. During the I-130 process, or beyond that on the green card process, do they ever mail anything to her address in her asian country? If so wouldn't leaving the important address line out just because the instructions say to be a mistake? 2. After I-130 is approved, she will move to Germany under SOFA. Yet the I-130 has her address in the asian country she lives in. And although we will also specify on the I-130 that we want the German consulate, I understand they will disregard that and go with the Asian country anyway. So what do we do when she is in Germany? Can we change her address and put the German consulate on the Green card application which we won't even start until she is in Germany? Or are we stuck with the original asian address and asian country consulate? Can anyone shed some light on what will happen, how to transfer the consulate, and the sequence of events that we need to be dealing with all because they will ignore our consulate request due to her original address being in Asia? Thanks for your patience with all my quesitons. We've been separated for over 5 years so I really want to get every detail right.

Thank you. I have started only posted in this thread since you told me to do that. The thread you marked as spam I believe was from before. I'll do my best to try to understand how to post in this forum.

My beneficiary lives in a country in Asia. I live in Germany. On the I-130 online form it says we can select consular processing, so we intend to do that. After the I-130 is approved, we would like her to come to Germany and do her green card application from Germany using the Consulate in Frankfurt. However, in the most popular youtube video for how to fill out this form she adivses people to first fill out the consulate for the country she is currenlty located in, then to later go and contact the embassy you want to have your green card processed at and request to transfer to that embassy. I'm not sure why she is advising this indirect approach, but perhaps there is a good reason. Therefore I want to ask the forum here what is the best course of action. Put her processing of I-130 in her current country or in Germany with the assumption she will move here after I-130 approval is granted.

The application form asks for my beneficiary's employment history, so we will list that. However the beneficiary also sold stuff on a platform similar to amazon and so was self-employed as well. Should I list that self-employment under the employment (even though it is not for an employer), or list it as unemployed? If I should indicate unemployed, should I then add a note in the other information section explaining why we didn't include it, or just not mention it as it's not really employment that they are asking for, but self-employment, like a garage sale online basically

Ok, and that's distinct from filing wth USCIS online and selecting consular processing, which is not DCF, I take it.

Not sure what DCF means? I originally was trying to use the exceptional circumstances route to file directly with Department of State, but have since changed course and we are filing online as usual with Immigration instead, but will select consular processing as she lives outside the US.

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I'm filing an online I-130 for my spouse. When I get to the page with the question "For whom are you filing this petition?" there is no way to proceed further. The options do not appear. Additionally there is an error message saying unable to fetch.

On the online I-130, I have a few periods of unemployment. Each is a completely different case and I'm not sure how to fill out the form for each situation. If you can advise me, please mention which case you are referring to. Situation #1: There was a period of about 5 days of unemployment between my last day at one job and my first day at another job. Technically this is a period of unemployment even though obviously I had another job secured. I'm concerned about the system rejecting my application if I leave any gap whatsoever in my 5 year timeline. So for this, my plan is to add a 5 day period where my employer is "unemployed", leave the details blank, and then put in the 5 day date range. Does this sound good. Situation #2: I had a period of 1 year of unemployment, but during that year I did about 2 hours of work self-employment. It was just self-employment as a consultant to an actual LLC. I did use a business name for my activity, and filed self-employment on my taxes, but this was not a legally registered business, just me doing business under a name. Also the business had no real address, as I was doing it remotely while traveling interationally. A mere 2 hours of work. Should I just add this whole period as unemployment? One reason is this won't show up on background checks as an employer, so it will mess up the whole application I predict, if I include it. I had that problem before having my background check get stuck because I couldn't prove a non-existent employer name that I used, even though it was legitimate self-employment work.

I'm working on filing out the Online I-130 form. For the address section, I have a short gap of about 2 weeks where I moved out of one address, went traveling abround in 3 countires. In order to not have any gap, I assume I should list these hotels as where I lived. Is that correct? Also I have a few years where I was living in shipping containers in Afghanistan, which only had a group mailing address, no physical address. Should I put the military APO address for those years? Or should I put my address back in the states which I left from and returned to? I'm really afraid to leave any gaps in my 5 year address history, lest they revoke my application on the basis that it's not complete.

Hello, I'm a naturalized US citizen sponsoring my spouse. One of the questions asks "if you are a lawful permanent resident, complete item..." and it asks for class of admission, date of admission, and place of admission. I don't believe that as a US citizen I am considered to be a lawful permanent resident, however as I previously was one (as a green card holder) then it might be the case that I'm supposed to fill out this data, as it did pertain to me at one point. Can anyone clarify this please?

This question is regarding the I-130 application form. I'm sponsoring my spouse. She lives abroad. I also am temporarily living outside the US for work, but not in her country. We plan to do consular filing for this reason. Neither of us currently live in the USA, though I pay nonresident taxes in one state and vote, so I have what I understand is called "domicile" status in the USA (not 100% sure of the terminology) Give all of the above, I'm not faced with completing a form where I've already provided my current address in a foreign country, which is of course essential for consular processing, bu now the form asks for "the address in the United States where the beneficiary intends to live". Is it to provide a parent's address in the USA for this purpose? I'm guessing that's what most people do. I'm assuming the best course of ac