Complex foreign addresses on I-129F

[Matcoody 0]

We are pre-filling the I-129F to have it ready to go.

On the I-130, the section for my Sweetie's rather long and complicated UK address (street address, village name, town name, postal code, shire and country) could fit on the lines fairly easily. On the I-129F, the little boxes provided don't leave room for his proper postal address, and the headings ('Town or City', 'State or Country') don't perfectly apply. I assume I must match the information on the I-130 exactly to that given on the I-129F.

Does anybody here with a lengthy UK address have advice on how they handled this? I would hate to get an RFE for something so silly. Please contact me via 'personal message' if you need to actually see the address to direct me. I really appreciate this one - it's a small thing, but it's a big thing!

Edited August 7, 2006 by Matcoody

[Matcoody 0]

And I forgot to ask - when a form asks for my husband's "country", should we put England or UK? We went with UK on the I-130, but we are now wondering if this was correct.

[lucyrich 19]

And I forgot to ask - when a form asks for my husband's "country", should we put England or UK? We went with UK on the I-130, but we are now wondering if this was correct.

Assuming it will fit, you can't go far wrong using the country name as it's written in the passport. I have no idea how they write it on the passport, but I'm afraid it might be something like "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", which probably won't easily fit.

Since it's for American adjudicators to understand, using "England", "Britain", or "UK" will probably all be equally understandable and give the same results, even though some people might rightly point out that those terms aren't exactly the same. What's really important for your I-130 is that you be easily understandable and not misleading, and by writing "UK", you were ok.