Discrepency between I-129F and G-325A

[Erk 0]

I have an interesting problem that has been eating at me ever since I sent in the I-129F on Feb. 4th. My Romanian fiancee is listed officially on her passport and with the Romanian State as living in her home town. Evidently a Romanian citizen is required to register with the State their official address. I guess this can cost upward of 1/3 of a Romanian's average monthly salary to do so you can see the disincentive to do so. To further muddy the waters, she has been living in Bucharest for the last several years. The landlords for Bucharest apartments are not officially "renting" to tenants and so those tenants that rent from the landlord are asked to not change their official State address to where they are currently living so that the landlord can say that they aren't renting to anyone. This lets the landlord to not have to pay any State taxes as a landlord and allows that landlord to pass those savings on to the renters in the form of lower rents. And you thought we in the U.S. were creative in avoiding taxes! From what I hear this practice is very widespread there.

Now for the problem. On the I-129F I have her living in her home town some 8 hours away from Bucharest when she works in Bucharest. On her G-325A she listed her living in her brother's place in Bucharest when she doesn't live there at all and has just moved to another apartment in Bucharest. She can change her address to the new one but that is a HUGE hassle monitarily and would necissitate her having to get her passport address changed as well. In a place where greasing the palms of public officials to get things done is a way of life you can see why she doesn't wish to do this as it would really put the hurt on her pocketbook at a time when it has been nearly depleted from her move to a new place. Bonehead me didn't think at the time that the addresses having to match between the I-129F and the G-325A were important. Now, with each day that we are waiting for the NOA2, this little fine grain of sand has succeeded to get under my skin big time. My question is, is this a big deal? Should this be a cause of concern where the fiancee's I-129F address is different than the G-325A? If so, what if anything can be done to rectify the situation?

[Gary and Alla 3,696]

I have an interesting problem that has been eating at me ever since I sent in the I-129F on Feb. 4th. My Romanian fiancee is listed officially on her passport and with the Romanian State as living in her home town. Evidently a Romanian citizen is required to register with the State their official address. I guess this can cost upward of 1/3 of a Romanian's average monthly salary to do so you can see the disincentive to do so. To further muddy the waters, she has been living in Bucharest for the last several years. The landlords for Bucharest apartments are not officially "renting" to tenants and so those tenants that rent from the landlord are asked to not change their official State address to where they are currently living so that the landlord can say that they aren't renting to anyone. This lets the landlord to not have to pay any State taxes as a landlord and allows that landlord to pass those savings on to the renters in the form of lower rents. And you thought we in the U.S. were creative in avoiding taxes! From what I hear this practice is very widespread there.

Now for the problem. On the I-129F I have her living in her home town some 8 hours away from Bucharest when she works in Bucharest. On her G-325A she listed her living in her brother's place in Bucharest when she doesn't live there at all and has just moved to another apartment in Bucharest. She can change her address to the new one but that is a HUGE hassle monitarily and would necissitate her having to get her passport address changed as well. In a place where greasing the palms of public officials to get things done is a way of life you can see why she doesn't wish to do this as it would really put the hurt on her pocketbook at a time when it has been nearly depleted from her move to a new place. Bonehead me didn't think at the time that the addresses having to match between the I-129F and the G-325A were important. Now, with each day that we are waiting for the NOA2, this little fine grain of sand has succeeded to get under my skin big time. My question is, is this a big deal? Should this be a cause of concern where the fiancee's I-129F address is different than the G-325A? If so, what if anything can be done to rectify the situation?

First, you have to remember that no one in USCIS gives a flying flip about Romania's requirements (or Ukraine's, they have the same thing) to register addresses or whether a landlord is paying tax. In many of those countries the economy is 80% "black" anyway for the same reason and the government is universally and pervasively corrupt, down to having to pay the mailman to deliver any "important looking" mail, most often pension checks.

That said, you should report your fiancees mailing address exactly as it is, whatever it is, whether she told the government or not. Also her employment information should be listed correctly, unless it is a "black money" job and then she is, technically and legally, not employed. But again the USCIS does not care about such things so there is no harm in listing it. She will probably be nervous about this, she needn't be. It is certainly possible for a person to have two active addresses, heck, the last 3 years is the first time in maybe 25 years I did not have more than one, and usually in two or more different countries. So there is nothing wrong with the address on the I-129f.

You cannot do anything now. If an RFE appears for this, then explain the situation, perhaps exactly as you did here.