Hi Everyone,

I posted this on the K-1 forum but no luck so far. Our time is running short here, so any help would be appreciated.

I'm filling out an I-129F Fiance form, and I can't seem to figure out how to put my Japanese style address into it. The form I have seems to assume the address will be in a Western style format. Japanese addresses are much more complex (trust me, if you've never tried to find an address here, you don't ever want the displeasure). For instance, there's no such thing as a street name in Japan - they use a grid system here. To make matters worse, even if I just sort of shoehorned my address into the existing fields, there's no way they would fit, since it's an extremely long address. Here's a slightly modified example of my address:

123 Panahaitsumokogaoka, 4-56-78 Shukugahara
Kawasakishi, Kanagawaken 90-1234
Japan

Anyone have any experience with this type of problem? Any advice at all would be invaluable.

Thanks,
Sean

I guess you have two choices. Trying to make it fit within the parameters allowed or write in "See Attached" and on a separate sheet of paper write it exactly as you have above.

Address: 123 Panahaitsumokogaoka, 4-56-78 Shukugahara
City: Kawasakishi,
State or Country: Kanagawaken Japan
Postal Code: 90-1234

That's good fwaguy... just write them all in...
Kim lived in Japan for 8 years. We did have this issue. Here is how we get around it:

Address: 123 Panahaitsumokogaoka
4-56-78 Shukugahara
City: Kawashakishi
State: Kanagawaken 90-1234
Japan

Basically, you need to give them the Country, State, City. Why? Your fiance will need a Police Certificate of Lack of Criminal Record from JP when she comes for her interview. This is required only if your fiance lived and worked in Japan for more than 6 months after her 16th Birthday. At least that's what HCMC asked for when Kim had her interview.

The local police in the city where your fiance has been living can issue the Certificate and it will show the JAPAN, Kanagawaken 90-1234, Kawashakishi and the Police's street address... Consulate will check for matching Country, State and City from your file.

Don't worry, keep it simple! it's important you have the Country/State/City on your file. They can contact the US Embassy and Consulate in Japan to verify anything that seems "out of the ordinary".

Good luck

Thanks for the info. So I guess we're going to have to hand write it? There's only one address field on I-129F, and it's a single line field. If I try to type it in, "123 Panahaitsumokogaoka 4-56-78 Shukugahara" is too long to fit in the field. "Kanagawaken 90-1234" doesn't fit into "State" either - should I put the 90-1234 part under Zip/Postal Code?

Basically here's the fields I have to work with:

Address - 35 characters
Apt. # - 11 characters
Town or City - 14 characters
State or Country - 14 characters
Zip/Postal Code - 14 characters

I've been trying, and maybe I'm missing something, but there doesn't seem to be any way to logically group these elements into the given form - they're just too long. I've been playing Tetris with it for awhile, but to no avail

On a related note, is anyone else having problems with the fields for questions 18 and 19? They're illustrated to look like multi-line text fields (as some of the other fields on the form are), but they're actually single-line fields. I don't think a single line is enough to explain how I met my fiancee and when I most recently saw her. It appears to be a technical glitch with the form itself - I've tried three different PDF readers, including Adobe Acrobat, and had the same problem each time.

Thanks for the responses guys. It is appreciated enormously.

Cheers,
Sean

Sean,

Calm down hahahaha... just write as much as you can fit, if you run out of SQUARES on the form, be as it may. As I said, just make sure you have the City/STATE/Country clearly marked on the address area. US Consulate will find the way to track down your fiance if they really want to...

For additional information which you would like the USCIS to know about you, don't hesistate to write on a separate sheet of paper. This including her FULL LONG adress. About the "LOVE STORY", write a page how you met on a separate sheet of paper also. We did exactly that... write it as you love it

Good luck

We did what fwaguy recommended in attaching a separate sheet.

To avoid any confusion (we went through Vietnam) on our I-129F petition form we listed "SEE ATTACHED" in the address section and then listed the full and correct address on the attached sheet.

We made sure to label the heading above the address on the attached sheet with the corresponding section number to the I-129F (i.e. I-129F Supplement: Part B, Question 2: "Address").

Best of luck!

STL_HCMC

Thanks everyone! I'm going to try the attached sheet method.

Cheers,
Sean