I-130, Part C, Item 18 Question

[syzygy 1]

Form I-130, Part C, 18.requests "Address in the United States where your relative intends to live" I am a permanent resident of the PRC. Although I own a home in the USA, it is currently being rented out for income, and I do not have a residence in the USA at the present time. I do intend to return to the USA shortly and rent an apartment. That being the case, how should I answer the question?

[piste 24]

1 hour ago, syzygy said:

Form I-130, Part C, 18.requests "Address in the United States where your relative intends to live" I am a permanent resident of the PRC. Although I own a home in the USA, it is currently being rented out for income, and I do not have a residence in the USA at the present time. I do intend to return to the USA shortly and rent an apartment. That being the case, how should I answer the question?

Use the address or if you feel okay wit it, another relative in the USA. 

 

I-130 takes a long time and if you win the lottery and get Nebraska, you may choose to buy a plot of land and have a house built sell it, rebuild and sell then build your final home, adjust address from parents to the "new home."

 

It will take you that long.

 

[syzygy 1]

11 hours ago, piste said:

Use the address or if you feel okay wit it, another relative in the USA. 

 

I-130 takes a long time and if you win the lottery and get Nebraska, you may choose to buy a plot of land and have a house built sell it, rebuild and sell then build your final home, adjust address from parents to the "new home."

 

It will take you that long.

 

I get the humor. I'm not sure if I feel comfortable doing it, but I may end up doing it out of desperation. Who designs these forms anyway? Idiots or sadists?

[patriot10 11]

An address is required where you will be staying initially as that is where they will mail your green card and social security etc.

You could use your sponsor's address? Or some close relative nearby to where you are going to rent a place eventually?

[syzygy 1]

22 minutes ago, patriot10 said:

An address is required where you will be staying initially as that is where they will mail your green card and social security etc.

You could use your sponsor's address? Or some close relative nearby to where you are going to rent a place eventually?

Thanks for your reply. I have a P.O.Box address where most of my mail is sent. My cash income is deposited directly to my bank account. My next door neighbor helps me out occasionally, picks up my mail, etc. I suppose I could use her address. Won't correspondence with USCIS be sent to my Chinese address? I mean, won't my Chinese wife need her documentation when she tries to enter the USA, not to mention scheduling her visa interview, etc.? I am a little leery about not following the letter of the law, considering the consequences. Someone else actually suggested I use the address of the home I own and am renting out. That seems to me to be lying to the government. And to say my wife intends to live with my neighbor initially upon coming to America seems to imply I am already living there, or will be living there in the future, which I will not be doing. Maybe I am just overthinking this. I am waiting for an answer from the US Embassy in Beijing on how to answer the question. I HOPE they give me useful guidance...but I am not too confident that they will. Thanks again for your help!

[piste 24]

23 hours ago, syzygy said:

I get the humor. I'm not sure if I feel comfortable doing it, but I may end up doing it out of desperation. Who designs these forms anyway? Idiots or sadists?

Now you are going too deep, on a good day ........ but on a bad day ...... designs the form ....

 

We are all a check box, an entry, a number .... we lose our personality to the forms ..... in Germany we are used to it. We use different coloured pens to freak out the officials.