For all of you going to Viet Nam, you know about Household Registration Book (Ho Khau).

My fiancee's ho khau still registers her old address (from birth to 1991). Her family doesn't have a new ho khau at their new home (1991 - present).

My question is: I know ho khau is not requied for orginal submission of I129-F. What role does it play later on in the process and especially in the interview? I'm asking it now because on her G-325A if she only lists her address for the past 5 years, it's not going to match the one on her ho khau. If she lists them all, it is like "you can't follow instructions, what does a pre-1991 address has to do with the past 5 years?"

Can anybody share their personal experience with ho khau? Thank you.

I don't know the answer to this, but normally when you moved and bought a new home in VN, you should also get a new HO KHAU. If not, how could they buy that new home (1991-Present)? Are you sure they don't have it at all, or just never got the new one from the Police Office... They should have it on record somehow.

Trust me, the POLICE wouldn't issue Motobike Registration Card or ID Card to her family if they didn't have HO KHAU. So they must have them somewhere. Check back with her local police... You may end up spending some "coffee" money on the police to get it done ASAP.

Good luck

Thank you, chuckandkim.

Her parents still own both homes, I think. So her ho khau is not going to be changed. It's just that they've let a relative stay at their old place since 1991.

Now she could list both addresses, one dated "198x - present", the other dated "1991 - present" which one does the Consulate use to mail documents to her? We want the "1991 - present" one to be her mailing address.

Now if she lists only her "1991-present" home, it's not going to match her ho khau that she has with her at the interview.

Somebody, please further advise?

Hi Sealedkiss,

I won't pretend to know what I am talking about. But this is what my observation is: Ho Khau seems to show where one registers her permanent address. It does not have to be where she lives or sleeps. Pack 3 seems to make a clear point about this as well.

I notice in my fiance's case, her ID card matches her Ho Khau. But she listed 2 different addresses in the past 5 years in the her Biographic form and I-129F, not the one listed in Ho Khau. Her current address is not the one listed in the Ho Khau.

She also has another book which I forgot what it's called but she had to list me as a visitor when I came to stay with her. This took place when I had to register my stay with the local police.

I hope this makes sense.

Tony

Ah, her folks still own that home? In that case, as Tony mentioned above, your Ho Khau matches your ID Card, and everything is still in legal order, you should not worry about it. Her "dia chi thuong tru" can be different from her "dang ky Ho Khau". The "other book" Tony mentioned could be the "So Tam Tru/Tam Vang". Keep it simple: put down both home address. Listed the one she stays as "mailing address". Since, in reality, her parents own those two homes, technically, she can be living and staying in both homes. No issue here in my book. Can always check with the Consulate to be sure. Explain the situation. The key here is: she is registered at the first home (ho khau), and live at the second home (tam tru).

Good luck....

Hi sealedkiss,

If you want the "1991 - present" address to be the mailing address on file with the US Consulate in HCMC, just notify them of that.

In our case, we were afraid that mailings from the Consulate would take longer to reach my faincee's 'ho khau registered address' in Can Tho, so I called the Consulate and asked them to change the mailing address on file to my office address in Ho Chi Minh City. They didn't have a problem with that at all.

My fiancee was still reigstered in the ho khau at her parents address in Can Tho, but had been living/working in Ho Chi Minh City for the past two years.

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